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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2300268, member: 19463&quot;]I asked a dealer who is first on my lit of people for my family to call upon my death.&nbsp; He said he did not care how coins were packaged and labeled since his practice would not be to copy provided information and he would repackage coins anyway as he processed them into his system.&nbsp; I do not know how many would agree with that but I took it as allowing me to do what I wanted.&nbsp; My computer database has all the information I have on the coins but the tags with the coins have minimal data including my accession numbers and enough to get the right tag with the right coin if a tray were dumped.&nbsp; When coins go from tray to envelopes, these tags go inside and that same data is lettered on the outside of the paper 2x2 envelope.&nbsp; If I later want to make a tray for easy enjoyment, the small tag goes with the coin and the 2x2 envelope goes back in the box empty but with a stick note tag that codes which tray received the coin.&nbsp; This means I only have catalog numbers, dates and peripheral details in the database (which has several backups in three different places) but you will recall that I consider catalog numbers considerably less important than most people do.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure that some buyers of my coins would be happier to have the database info all printed out on a 1 7/8 square card stuck in a flip so they could sell the coins with no work but I doubt I would be selling the group to any dealer who would trust his reputation on what I thought about a coin anyway so it is not likely to come up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My envelopes have as much data as a slab and the buyer of my collection will get the database if they want to refer to it.&nbsp; I like the example posted by Carthago above better than my spreadsheet style listing but do not see spending a significant portion of my remaining life entering data on all those coins so I doubt I will be changing unless the program has a feature that allows automatic transfer.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A question for dealers among us:&nbsp; If you were to make and offer on identical coins labeled in Ides style, TIF style, with a number allowing finding it in Carthago style database and just bare in a flip for protection, would your offer be different for the exact same coin?&nbsp; If you offered Ides&nbsp; $100, would Tif get $100 or $95?&nbsp; Would the plain brown wrapper get $100 or $50?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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