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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8359168, member: 110226"]I would organize the coins in boxes, ordered by whatever method appeals to you. For each coin I include any provenance information plus any auction tag that might have come with it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now if you have additional information for a particular coin there are two ways to store that information/documentation: hard copy or digital. For a coin associated with the documentation I would set up an ID number that links that coin to the documentation, that number, written on the coin's label and the document would enable access to the relevant information.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the ultimate way to link information to a coin is through a database. Databases can be very basic or elaborate. Depending on one's level of skill, forms can be developed, linked to queries, that would enable a use to drill down to documentation, either text or an image of a document for a particular coin, using a unique ID number. Setting something like that would require many hours of work and experimentation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 8359168, member: 110226"]I would organize the coins in boxes, ordered by whatever method appeals to you. For each coin I include any provenance information plus any auction tag that might have come with it. Now if you have additional information for a particular coin there are two ways to store that information/documentation: hard copy or digital. For a coin associated with the documentation I would set up an ID number that links that coin to the documentation, that number, written on the coin's label and the document would enable access to the relevant information. To me, the ultimate way to link information to a coin is through a database. Databases can be very basic or elaborate. Depending on one's level of skill, forms can be developed, linked to queries, that would enable a use to drill down to documentation, either text or an image of a document for a particular coin, using a unique ID number. Setting something like that would require many hours of work and experimentation.[/QUOTE]
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