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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4015429, member: 82322&quot;]This technology will be important soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a coin at NYINC, said to be ex Lord Grantley collection and ex Lockett collection 1537.&nbsp; I asked for the original ticket, but the dealer said it was in bad shape so he threw it away!&nbsp; I checked the Lockett auction catalog, but what I had purchased was in a group lot and unpictured.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">A friend bought a coin from the same dealer, also with Lockett provenance.&nbsp; This one came with the ticket.&nbsp; Unfortunately, verifying with the Lockett catalog showed the ticket was for a different coin!&nbsp; Tickets got crossed, somehow.&nbsp; Now my friend has someone else&#039;s ticket.&nbsp; </font>Ridiculous<font size="3">.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of my collection will sell for less than $20 per coin.&nbsp; I have lots of photographs, scans of Customs declarations, my own description and research, and links to CoinTalk.&nbsp; No auction catalog will waste the space to print my hard work.&nbsp; I need some mechanism to attach a paper trail to my coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Putting all my notes, pictures, etc into an RFID tag would be a good choice, but an RFID tag doesn&#039;t have space to hold pictures.&nbsp; Also, if the coin is lost or stolen I have no records.</p><p><br /></p><p>Putting all my notes, pictures etc onto the cloud means I have space to hold photos.&nbsp; I can copy the data around the cloud.&nbsp; I can store a link to the big data on the RFID or NFC tag.&nbsp; This means anyone with the coin tag can get the data I uploaded to the cloud -- but only if I have chosen a provider that is still present in 10 or 100 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until I can figure out a workflow for electronic documentation links and backups I have a lazy man&#039;s approach.&nbsp; I print out my collection inventory documentation with a nice paperback cover every year.&nbsp; I use lulu.com.&nbsp; They charge about $15.&nbsp; I keep last year&#039;s copy off-site.&nbsp; Perhaps my heirs can donate one of my collection inventories to the ANS library in a few decades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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