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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1634410, member: 19463&quot;]This post is to be sure those who might care are aware of an in-progress resource on ancient coins called Coin Project.&nbsp; At present CP has a bit over 50,000 coins but some are duplicates.&nbsp; Some areas are rather well represented while others are not.&nbsp; Coins are uploaded by volunteers either from their own collections or from cooperating dealers (like CNG).&nbsp; After upload, entries are reviewed by a specialist (also a volunteer if you would like to help) in that specialty and &#039;Verified&#039; if the data is found to be correct.&nbsp; It is not allowed for the same person to upload and verify so many of my coins have not been verified since they don&#039;t have multiple volunteers in all the areas of my interest.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Users can see unverified coins and search to find results as needed or just browse by ruler.&nbsp; Rather than give the home link, I&#039;ll give the one to coins I have submitted.&nbsp; I have tried to submit coins that are not common or that were not in their database but many of the larger submitters have posted everything so it is possible to find photos of several examples of some coins especially if they are the sort of thing CNG class dealers sell.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.coinproject.com/submitter_list.php?criteria=dougsmit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinproject.com/submitter_list.php?criteria=dougsmit" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinproject.com/submitter_list.php?criteria=dougsmit</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Photos are generally pretty good and most coins have RIC or other major reference data.&nbsp; There is rarely any comment offered about what makes the coin interesting but this varies according to who uploaded the coin and whether the coin has a tale to tell.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Coin Project hopes to become &#039;complete&#039; but this will take decades.&nbsp; It has certain advantages over Wildwinds and AC Search but also has some shortcomings.&nbsp; The management would like to have more specialist volunteers sign up to handle certain sections (I&#039;d like someone to volunteer to verify my Septimius and Anonymous Pagan coins).&nbsp;&nbsp; The also would appreciate cash donations toward programming and bandwidth costs but it is not necessary to pay to join or to join to see the coins.&nbsp; Give it a look and see if there is anything there that might help you in your collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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