How do you keep track of your coins???

I mean come on..the ones who have hundreds even thousands of coins...how the hell do you keep track of them????

 

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If you have hundreds or thousands, I think you need to catagorize them first, for example, put the same denomination in one bag, and later if you have similar years, seperate them in different groups.

And if you have time and commitment, you can eventually catagorize them... I have more than 800 coins up on omnicoin, although I still have a fair amount to go.

 

I keep inventory of my collection with an excel spreadsheet with links to the pictures of each. I looked at getting one of the many software inventories out there but couldn't find one that I liked. With excel you can set it up any way you want.

 

I keep track of my coins the old fashoned way, I have the red boxes that I keep all the 2x2's and I put each type of coin in its own box and have them in the boxes consecutivly by date and condition. I also have a pad of paper sitting on top of my boxes where I catalouge all of the coins I have for quick reference. Pretty funny considering that I am a computer addict, but I've found that having the coins and the catalouge both in a safe and off of my network where it could possibly be stolen is better than the convience of having it on my laptop.

 

Excel works for me. I'm sure there are better ways but that is one of the easiest.

 

Excel works great for me. Hard for me to imagine anything suiting my needs any better. If you are looking for bells and whistles as well, then some other program may provide more of that.

 

its better to have 30 $100 coins than 1500 $2 coins ... just my thought

 

That is my philosophy too
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I collect world coins. Most of my coins are worth BV of the zinc/copper/brass they are made of. I would guess I have between 2500 - 3000 coins. They are all kept in 2x2's, in 20 pocket pages, in three ring binders. I've got probably 20 binders that are for just one country, (some of two or three binders) and tthen if there is not enough of one country to justify its own binder, it goes into the binders that are alphabetical listings of countries. Each 2x2 has the country, denomination, year, and KM or Y#.

I tried keeping track of them on excell, and also with a list in each binder. That was just more trouble than it was worth. The easiest way I found to keep track of what I have, is just to put a mark next to it in my Krause cataloge. I can easily see what I have, if I am missing something. It requires zero effort because I'm already going to the catalog to get the KM number.

If I need to take it somewhere, I can just make a photo copy of the page that I am working on - like if I am looking for Canadian quarters, I just copy that page and go.

The only problem that I am running into is that my Krause is about 8 years old, now I am going to run into the problem of having to get a new edition, and then go back and remark everything that I have. Thats the only down side. When I redo it, I'm going to come up with a system to indicate if I have a coin but it is low grade so it can be upgraded.

This works for me, because I only collect by date/denomination/mintmark. If I collected by varieties it wouldn't work.

 

Good idea !

 

I use Coin Elite. It's a coin inventory program. You can customice the program to best suite your collecting needs. Like US coins, Canadian, world coins ancient coins, euro coins, US paper money. It has an ANA photo grading guide of US coins plus greensheet values.

 

'till now I was trying to put then in an Excel document... with pictures in a nearby folder...

But...
I'm thinking of making my own software for my coins inventory...
Still thinking of the databases for greatest flexibility and making it good for everyone...

Max

 

Yes, i made my own too, if you are too flexable it can get too hard to use, you have to balance flexability with ease of use.

the most flexable is excel but it is not as easy as a developed program.

If you want to try it i will give it away for free if you let me know how you like it.

 

Well, you can let me see if it's okay with you... But I'm always thinking BIG... and probably too much... :headbang:

If I just can have some days off, I'll try to remember how everything works and work on it a bit... If I can code my ideas, it should make something interesting! :thumb:

Max

 

I use ACCESS, 2x2 flips stored in boxes. As I enter a coin into the database - the database automatically issues a consective Inventory number based on series. Each box is labeled with the beginning inv number and ending inv number contained in that box. If I am looking for a specific coin - in a specific grade - I enter a search - using pre-programed queries into the database. Suppose I want to find a 1956-D Cent RPM-005 in BU Condition - my database returns - LW2733. I go to the Wheat Cent Boxes look for the box containing LW2400 through LW2799.

 

Easier said than done. Ones I’ve collect few 100, $2 coins I’m finding it hard to let go. :goofer:

 

I have an old whitman book that has all the US coins by denomination date and mm. Each coin I have I record when and where I purchased it, how much I purchased it for, its physical conditions, whether or not it is slabbed and its grade. I keep two, one to carry to shows and the like and one for the safe.

 

I've got to go along with that. A few freinds of mine have all tried all these other on the market coin prgrams but they mostly have one big problem. Change computers and you have to have that program on the other computer. Same when you travel. Excel is everywhere. I've got literally thousands of coins, in 2x2's, in albums, in plastic rolls, in jars and probably in some socks somewhere. I recently found a tootsie roll bank in my closet that was full of coins I forgot about although it was listed on my excel data sheet. ONe nice thing is I can just put a list of coins on a 3 1/2 floppy and go any where and print it out if I want. I once printed out my Excel coin list and it was over 30 pages long.

 

If you ever invited me into your house, you'd never be able to get me to leave...I'd be too absorbed flipping through your binders...

 

I keep almost everything in 2x2s in several 3-ring binders. I created an Excel spreasheet a few months ago, but I haven't actually filled anything in yet!

On thing I like about keeping things in 3-ring binders is that it's easy to pop in literature to go with the coins (such as explanations on dating coins in Japanese or Hebrew, or a history of British copper coins).