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Globetrotter, I'm new here.
I was born in Denmark many years ago, and now I live in France.
My collection started when my godfather gave me a few kilos of world-coins, he had taken out of his pockets, when coming home from his many travels all over the world. That was in 1956. Since then, I have been "bitten" by this hobby. I started to put Danish coins aside by their year, and asked my family and friends to donate their foreign or not usable coins to my collection. That went on like that for many years.
In 2004 I became a contributor to the Krause catalogs. I had noticed that a lot of the coins in the catalogs were missing either scans, weights or diameters, or were simply not known to Krause, so since then I've been measuring, describing etc. all the coins going through my hands to Krause. This satisfied me a lot, since it helps all the collectors in the world. Unfortunately, KM only exists as numismaster.com now.
Since 2008 I have started to document the variants I find, where to find mint marks etc.
Some time in 2012 I joined Numista. After 12 months, I had managed to enter my collection in Numista. I then started to enter my doubles, but gave that up, since to keep more than 15,000 doubles both in my Excel list and in numista wasn't possible. So I'm only having my doubles in this very Excel list. Since I do a lot of swaps outside numista it's practical like that and many numista traders don't mind going through my Excel list.
My collection today is consisting of some 45,000 different coins all in Numista and in an Excel sheet, which I collect by country, denomination, year, mint mark and variants. The variants I document as you can see in the attachments, I never counted them, but around a thousand I should think.
I'm a non-paying member of this site, and I hope to be able to learn about your way of documenting variants.
Now you know everything about me, happy to be here
Globetrotter
I was born in Denmark many years ago, and now I live in France.
My collection started when my godfather gave me a few kilos of world-coins, he had taken out of his pockets, when coming home from his many travels all over the world. That was in 1956. Since then, I have been "bitten" by this hobby. I started to put Danish coins aside by their year, and asked my family and friends to donate their foreign or not usable coins to my collection. That went on like that for many years.
In 2004 I became a contributor to the Krause catalogs. I had noticed that a lot of the coins in the catalogs were missing either scans, weights or diameters, or were simply not known to Krause, so since then I've been measuring, describing etc. all the coins going through my hands to Krause. This satisfied me a lot, since it helps all the collectors in the world. Unfortunately, KM only exists as numismaster.com now.
Since 2008 I have started to document the variants I find, where to find mint marks etc.
Some time in 2012 I joined Numista. After 12 months, I had managed to enter my collection in Numista. I then started to enter my doubles, but gave that up, since to keep more than 15,000 doubles both in my Excel list and in numista wasn't possible. So I'm only having my doubles in this very Excel list. Since I do a lot of swaps outside numista it's practical like that and many numista traders don't mind going through my Excel list.
My collection today is consisting of some 45,000 different coins all in Numista and in an Excel sheet, which I collect by country, denomination, year, mint mark and variants. The variants I document as you can see in the attachments, I never counted them, but around a thousand I should think.
I'm a non-paying member of this site, and I hope to be able to learn about your way of documenting variants.
Now you know everything about me, happy to be here
Globetrotter
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