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<p>[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 2038510, member: 36248"]I never really understood hiding the cert#, but I've seen it before. In this day and age of Registry sets, hiding the cert# seems more or less useless. I mean, if someone is trying to keep their coins anonymous, don't post photos of them online. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In regards to Excel, I also use some sophisticated spreadsheets, and earlier in the year I had links directly to relevant images. I ended up removing that functionality, as it was too problematic for a few reasons. I am always taking new photos, renaming photos, moving photos, deleting photos, etc. It was particularly problematic for my setup, since I sync like 80,000 photos on 4 different machines, and they all have varying hard drives sizes and quantities. So on some machines, even thought the images are identical (synced copies), they were physically located at different paths on different machines, and this really broke the linking, depending on which machine I opened the Excel file on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't own enough coins to justify putting barcodes on them, but if I was a dealer, I would definitely do this. Scan coins in and out, and a lot less handwriting, and a lot more useful tracking and bookkeeping than most dealers currently do. One day, as I have said before, the smart dealers will figure this out. "One <strike>ring</strike> database to rule them all".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 2038510, member: 36248"]I never really understood hiding the cert#, but I've seen it before. In this day and age of Registry sets, hiding the cert# seems more or less useless. I mean, if someone is trying to keep their coins anonymous, don't post photos of them online. :facepalm: In regards to Excel, I also use some sophisticated spreadsheets, and earlier in the year I had links directly to relevant images. I ended up removing that functionality, as it was too problematic for a few reasons. I am always taking new photos, renaming photos, moving photos, deleting photos, etc. It was particularly problematic for my setup, since I sync like 80,000 photos on 4 different machines, and they all have varying hard drives sizes and quantities. So on some machines, even thought the images are identical (synced copies), they were physically located at different paths on different machines, and this really broke the linking, depending on which machine I opened the Excel file on. I don't own enough coins to justify putting barcodes on them, but if I was a dealer, I would definitely do this. Scan coins in and out, and a lot less handwriting, and a lot more useful tracking and bookkeeping than most dealers currently do. One day, as I have said before, the smart dealers will figure this out. "One [S]ring[/S] database to rule them all".[/QUOTE]
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