I am CyrusPamelaOne, and the website and its forums helped me to enhance the information about coins and banknotes even when I registered, it was in the fourth month of my numismatic career (I started numismatics on 23 June 2018). Before I headed to Numista, I used to only read the numismatic information on Wikipedia, which is back then and some for today, they lack the diameter and weight details on certain coins. I only knew diameters and weights of the coins of some of the coins. To database my coin collection, I used to manually count coins and had no notes on what coins and banknotes I did have at that time.
After I registered exactly 5 years ago, I wasted two hours per day databasing my entire coin collection as Numista had only coin catalogues until 2020 when the banknote catalogues started here and eventually tokens; and also became an alternative to Colnect. I removed my non-existent coins in my collection after checking my coin collection in the next few days later, and further checking my coin collection database here in January 2019 when I purchased the album in Japan surplus just less than 50 meters from the internet café that I used to went everyday in 2018 at Central Bicutan, Taguig. This was the time I actually bought coins for checking for 1-2 weeks. In turn, I always gather information about coins here on Numista about coin details and only few of those still lack information due to lack of volunteers on some tokens due to following reasons: some owners of those certain tokens, lack of small weighing scale or lack of diameter checker or some of metallic compositions are not distinct from one other.
For the banknotes that was added on Numista on April 2020, unfortunately, I did not add any banknotes in my database until next month, as my old phone that I got on my birthday on 3 March 2019, was bugged with “Unfortunately, the (app name) has stopped” even in the settings. I attempted to reset my phone over ten times, but it was still not functioning; until on 15 April 2020, I broke that phone due to the anger of malfunctioning. I added banknotes in my Numista database eventually in May 2020 when I borrowed my mother’s phone. That time, I checked all of my banknotes in my collection at home due to the pandemic.
For exonumia which was added on Numista on 31 March 2021, I added my tokens on my Numista database in just a day due to a second lockdown due to the surge of COVID-19 at that time. But I did not actually fulfill adding tokens or other exonumias to my collection until October 2022, when I actively added some of the tokens to my collection that are missing on Numista, but even me as a numismatist does not have small weighing scale but I can identify diameters by comparing with other coins in my collection.
Between October 2021 and January 2022, I removed all of my duplicates on my coin collection even in Numista as I do not collect duplicates anymore and just focus on searching for new coins or banknotes, and its years, dates, and varieties. For banknote collection, I forgot to remove some duplicates in my collection even I already put those on a separate container, and planned to remove those duplicates before the end of 2023.
Overall, Numista is indeed a tool for searching more about coin details and catalogues that some of the details that have not found yet on Wikipedia back then. It became my assistant for cataloguing coins to accurately estimate all coins, banknotes, and exonumias. Salamat po.
