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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 2538187, member: 36818&quot;]While I admire some of the organizing solutions shared here — or at least the ambition and devotion of the organizers — the majority seem very space hungry, with lots of time and energy devoted to cutting out little tags. One of the solutions here has only six coins to an album insert! That adds up to a lot of album pages just for a modest collection of say 100 coins. It would take nearly 17 album inserts to house 100 coins. If the information on a tag spans both front and back, that means I&#039;d have to hunt around on 34 pages of tags (front and back of each insert), each tag printed with 8-point text, just to find a single bit of information such as a particular provenance. Such a cumbersome process even for a small collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s hard for me to understand why so much space is devoted to information that can easily be stored separately from the coins, but yet is readily accessible from anywhere and searchable within seconds.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, if all the information is catalogued using a web-based document like those available in Google docs, it can be electronically indexed. It is keyword searchable, easily editable, doesn&#039;t consume printer paper, ink, or toner, doesn&#039;t hog album or tray space, and can be easily be shared with anyone anywhere. You can insert photos of the coins in line with the text. Hyperlinks can be incorporated into the descriptive text to link with dealer websites, other documents such as invoices, reference websites, online databases, web-based provenance information, and the like. Using such a method, any information about any coin can be found in a matter of seconds, even for the largest collection of tens of thousands of coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another advantage of a web-based catalogue is that it is backed up automatically offsite. You might lose your coins during a natural disaster such as a hurricane, but at least the data about them will be preserved indefinitely! Moreover you can print information as needed. So for example, say you want to sell a coin. You can copy and paste the corresponding text, then print it out to accompany that coin. No need to fuss with tags.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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