Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Coin Collecting

Besides collecting coins, I "collect" dead people. Not what you think - I work on my genealogy/family history. There have been a lot of chatter, webinars, discussions about how you can use AI (Chat GPT, Google Gemini, Claude, etc.) to aid in your genealogical research.

So, I was wondering, do you use AI tools to aid in your coin collecting?

• Coin identification
• Automated Grading
• Spotting Errors
• Counterfeit Detection
• Photography
• Market Valuation
• Research or Learning (rather than reading books and books)
• Creating spreadsheets
• Buying and selling

If you do use AI, which platforms do you use? Google Gemini, Chat GPT, Claude? Or, do you use AI Apps: CoinKnow, CoinValueChecker, HeritCoin, Coinoscope? Are there other good ones out there I haven't listed? If you use more than one, what do you use each for? Is Chat GPT better for some things, and Gemini better for others?

Yes, I'm retired and getting older (almost 59), but still semi-technologically competent. And, since I'm starting to go down the AI rabbit hole in the genealogy world, I'm thinking there can be advantages to using AI in the coin world also.

 

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I've long thought that AI would be great for coming up with prices for coins: scanning all the actual completed sales/auction results...throwing out outliers...observing the trend...seeing if a particular series was stronger or weaker than peers...etc...etc...etc.

Right now, I just use AI by asking questions on a few coin topics in Gemini and seeing the result. I guess in the past I would have gotten a bunch of those blue links, now I get a brief summary answer to my question. As you can tell, I'm not the expert on AI use (matches my PC use ).

 

I collect foreign coins and sometimes I get one I can't easily identify. I've found that if you scan the coin, upload the picture to Google image search, it usually gives you the correct answer. It's a good idea to check what it gives you independently but it's very helpful. I would consider that to be AI.

 

I've been using Google Gemini and Chat GPT (I ask both the same question and sometimes get different answers) for a few different things:

• Research on where I can find info about past and current coin pricing (for tax purposes).
• Research on which local coin dealers specialize in what, so I can pick the right one to sell to.
• Research on how to set up my instructions for family to take care of my collection after I die.
• So........mostly research.

AI gives me the answers to the questions I ask (not always 100% correct, but mostly good info), and then it asks if I would like to.......whatever. Sometimes I haven't even thought of the things that it asks me, so I say yes, and I get more info that I never knew I should ask about! Then, it asks more questions I never thought to ask, and I get even more info! Rabbit hole!

I'd like to know if there's value to using AI for other reasons (maybe some listed above, maybe more reasons).