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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dave_in_delaware, post: 2544519, member: 82414&quot;]I recently joined CoinTalk and in my &quot;Greetings&quot; post, a few people have mentioned that they&#039;d love to see photos of both sides of my world coin collection (inherited from my grandfather). </p><p><br /></p><p>This made me feel kind of good since I just joined and people want to see my collection. So, I began cataloging my world coins. Because, I really have no idea what I have. I mean, I looked at a few, but there are a lot (to me) in the jar....</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been using Microsoft Excel to catalog all the world coins that I have (as well as US State Quarters, US America the Beautiful series, &quot;older&quot; US pennies, $2 bills, etc) that I seem to have started collecting. </p><p><br /></p><p>My question is: Is an Excel spreadsheet a good way of cataloging coin collections like this? I&#039;m sure there are software packages out there that would do a superb job, but I&#039;ll be honest: I&#039;m cheap. I already use Excel regularly for other things. I figured that I could use a worksheet for each type of currency to help keep things organized. Who else uses Excel for cataloging? </p><p><br /></p><p>My second question is: how does one go about photographing the coins in their collection? Do you photograph EVERY coin? This seems to be an overwhelming task to me (and I haven&#039;t even started yet). It&#039;s taking a while to catalog my coins. I can&#039;t imagine the time it would take to photograph each one, too. </p><p><br /></p><p>So I guess my purpose of this thread is to ask a general overall question: HOW did you tackle such a seemingly giant task?? Maybe it&#039;s because I haven&#039;t been doing this one by one over the last few years. I inherited a jar full of coins all at once. So far I cataloged 152 coins (17 countries, dated between 1920 and 2003), and I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve even looked at 1/3 of them yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t get me wrong. I&#039;m not going to quit. I guess I want to hear how you would handle this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for reading.</p><p><br /></p><p>((Moderators: I&#039;m not sure if this is the right place to post this, so if it is not, please move to the appropriate area.))[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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