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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 4022691, member: 83956"]This was a tough question when I was starting to re-catalogue about 2-3 years ago. I looked at how VCoins dealers arranged their coins and generally followed suit. I'm still happy with my scheme. Constantine gets his own category because I specialize in his coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1057865[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A problem for me was how to sync a given coin flip identification with its corresponding more generous page discussion in my MSWord documents. Using a RIC number would not work if one has multiple examples of a single RIC exemplar. I addressed this problem, somewhat pretentiously, by assigning a coin a RICHARDSON CATALOG NUMBER. This works well until I sell, trade, or give away a coin. But I make it work, usually by retiring that number until a replacement makes its way to my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my trays, I order my coins by ruler and then striking date.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: To give proper credit, I’m pretty sure I looked at how Victor Clark and Incitatus Coins ordered their stock. I suspect my scheme owes a lot to them, though it’s a pretty standard division of Roman historical periods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 4022691, member: 83956"]This was a tough question when I was starting to re-catalogue about 2-3 years ago. I looked at how VCoins dealers arranged their coins and generally followed suit. I'm still happy with my scheme. Constantine gets his own category because I specialize in his coinage. [ATTACH=full]1057865[/ATTACH] A problem for me was how to sync a given coin flip identification with its corresponding more generous page discussion in my MSWord documents. Using a RIC number would not work if one has multiple examples of a single RIC exemplar. I addressed this problem, somewhat pretentiously, by assigning a coin a RICHARDSON CATALOG NUMBER. This works well until I sell, trade, or give away a coin. But I make it work, usually by retiring that number until a replacement makes its way to my collection. In my trays, I order my coins by ruler and then striking date. EDIT: To give proper credit, I’m pretty sure I looked at how Victor Clark and Incitatus Coins ordered their stock. I suspect my scheme owes a lot to them, though it’s a pretty standard division of Roman historical periods.[/QUOTE]
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