IanB

Its hard to tell through the plastic, open a couple up and take a photo. How many have you got?

Looks like you have quite a collection there Dave, I don't know why you were worried about having cleaned them. They look good to me.

Thank you Guy, just transferred the money into your account. Sent a PM with my address. Ian

Me please

That's a fair amount of money. I hope he enjoys it in good health and spends it before the tax man or some other bugger wants a share of it for whatever reason.

I am sure it's money well spent.

My first chance today to have a look at my new arrivals, very pleased and they arrived already in quadrums. I hope Mr Copethorne did well out of the sale and just to let him know, the ones I purchased have gone to a good home. "A penny is not just for Christmas its for life"

I have been thinking that I need to be a bit more methodical in cataloging my coins, currently I scribble some details onto the back of the flips they are stored in and place them in the album. However now that the numbers are growing and I am buying better grade coins I want to start some form of record keeping. What do you guys do to keep a track of a growing collection? I am also thinking of creating a website like some have on the forum, any tips on this?

Some MDF contains formaldehyde that could possibly have an effect on silver.

Paulus, you should consider offering a photo service. You could make a pretty penny, excuse the pun.

As a newbie to any form of coin auction, I thought it was a relaxed easy way of bidding with the opportunity to rethink and rebid when coins started to go above what one wanted to pay for them. If I had a criticism it would be that the bids were not updated often enough and not all at the same time. Especially last thing at night leaving people to wonder all night. Not the greatest of problems but should have been easy to resolve.

Thank you. I think I have added it.

I am currently using one called Espied, some of the other templates seem to crop the photos. Its all new to me so I will be playing with the site over the next couple of weeks. Its good to know what others are using so I don't try to reinvent the wheel. As I add more photos it will be interesting to see how I move things around and start to categorise the coins into monarchs. Santa, When you say link it through your signature. I cannot see that in the edit profile. I have added it to the profile fields. Can you point me to the signature?

Thank you Colin, I will have a word at work next week and see what is available.

Any advice on how I link my website to my posts? I have updated my profile but I cannot see the link on my message. There is not a lot on there at the moment but it would be nice to be able to link to it from here.

Thanks Santa, I have just created a Wordpress website. I have added a couple of photo but thats all I have at the moment. Guess my summer job is to starting snapping and adding. I need to spend a bit of time familiarising myself with editing and moving stuff around but so far it looks okay. There is quite a bit of choice with the templates, what style did you go for? Anyone else have a Wordpress site? If you have, what template do you think works the best for coins?

Just found a thread dated July 2012, started by Mongo, with plenty of information about databases and spreadsheet. I will have a read through of that. However if anyone has anymore advice please let me know. I am still interested in creating a website to record my collection and somehow I would like to link it to a database, preferably for free but at the very least low cost. Thank you all for you advice and guidance as always and so far it has given me plenty to work on. Ian

Thats another package I don't seem to have on my computer. Again I may be able to get it through work. I work for a university and we can often get these for free if we ask using an IP address connected to the university.

Hi Bob, I cannot seem to be able to download it, does it work on Macs? Ian

Thank you Rob, I do not have Access on my computer at the moment but I may be able to get hold of it through work. I will speak with IT on Tuesday. The Microsoft website blurb for it looks good.

That's great Tom, thank you. I was guessing that an Excel spreadsheet would be a good starting point but giving the columns some form of name was something I was wondering about. Some form of unique ID number is essential for everything else to pin onto but it is the other headings I was doubtful on. My collection mainly consist of Pennies (what a surprise!) and what I would term as standard examples. As the collection has grown I have in some cases multiples of the same coin, I am in no rush to sell them so I need to add a section to the sheet that identifies the differences between the same date coins. I like your way of keeping a running total of costs I have to admit that I have not been keeping up to date records so I will be creating something with a lot of blanks for the moment that will hopefully get filled as I go along. I was also thinking of somehow linking the records to a website so that a photo of the coin can hyperlink to a record somewhere on the site. I have no clue how to do this but maybe someone here as done something similar?

Looking forward to next week when I can upgrade my collection

You know it makes sense.

Already paid for them, so that make them my precious

Me too, did better than I first thought got 6 in total Lots 158, 161, 178, 185, 211 & 175