I took my collection's weight and extrapolated it to the size of yours. The average coin mass should be similar enough but It seems your coins are a bit heavier then mine so I undershot it by a bit.
I would need the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Czechia, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Türkiye, and Gibraltar to fill up the map of Europe (though there is some countries that I don’t have but the map says I do because I have a coin from the Soviet Union and a 5 Euro note)
Did you know that Pluto is still a planet in Illinois and New Mexico and has de facto recognition as a planet in Arizona?
There is some euro and pound coins I haven’t added to the list yet, and the U.S. coins is desperate for an update, but it’s going good so far. Still working on a full map.
Did you know that Pluto is still a planet in Illinois and New Mexico and has de facto recognition as a planet in Arizona?
There is some euro and pound coins I haven’t added to the list yet, and the U.S. coins is desperate for an update, but it’s going good so far. Still working on a full map.
Did you know that Pluto is still a planet in Illinois and New Mexico and has de facto recognition as a planet in Arizona?
Actual numbers of coins and values have not changed much since earlier this year
The main change was the value of the metal. Crazy prices for silver and gold have seen 426 grams of gold at $58k NZ in January now worth $88k and the silver price has gone gangbusters at $44US an ounce and $75 in NZ pesos. My silver used to be around $1.60 - $1.80 a gram, its now $2.45 or some $33 for a halfcrown!
The other change is NZ has slipped down to 4th place behind the USA for most coins, UK is #1 at over 2,500 coins.
I also did my first banknotes snapshot, now Numista keeps them separate from coins. As you can see, most mine are NZ, Australia, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga with a few British ones too. They underestimate the value of the NZ notes though. I have around $2,500 in spendable NZ dollaz in my collection right now and about $1k more in Australian and Fijian.
There's a few German ones, due to the usual pile of worthless German inflation notes from 1922 and 1923.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I don't actively collect banknotes but my dad recently gave me his collection of them to add to the small amount I had, so starting to look quite colourful now:
I am just starting, so my spread is a bit threadbare!
I guess it reflects where I am from, where I live now and which country's modern silver coins I think are the prettiest (Pandas with Emus coming in at a distant second). I would love to fill up Africa.
I am just a few weeks into my Numista adventure. I have many hundreds of coins from the US and have been going through and adding them all into the catalogue here. Its been a wild ride. Wish me luck the never ending journey to get every coin type from every country.
Good luck Max, I hope your flooring has strong enough beams to support the weight of that ambition!
Thank you! I hope so too! I do most of my collection in my office upstairs, where I have like 30 pounds of coins give or take. but for long term storage they put in bins in the basement on a slightly raised platform. polished concrete floors should be able to handle a few hundred more pounds at least haha. The real question is how close will I get to that goal.
I know I'm not ever going to 100% my collection even for my own country. some are just too rare, and in those cases I will print a photo of the coin for my book just so I can see it without owning it with a “Reserved” 2x2. I've decided my main focus will be 1930-current year. and if I find older ones that's icing on the cake.
I was looking through that post the other day. What I would LOVE is to get a little access to their catalogue system. A few of those collections look floor to ceiling + wall to wall. and Finding a single coin must be a nightmare without an insanely detailed inventory system.
You can add private notes to each coin, which could contain a storage referencing system of your own devising. 😀
This is true, but what hapens if the website goes down before your collection does? Re-Inventory would SUCK on 50k+ coins haha. Its a great fallback but I have to assume that most collectors at that stage have their own inventory system.
Not that I tried it myself, but you could give something like this FOSS software a go.
You can also export a backup of your Numista data:
My dream someday! I really want to build a coin desk sort of thing. One desk with an overhead shelf for reference books, a backboard for a monitor, a pull out drawer for mouse and keyboard, and a second drawer for extra coin flips stapler, pouches, etc.
Then have a bookshelf with all my albums on it with Custom software for inventory just like a library. That way I can search up the coin and it tells me exactly where its at. Right now Ive been doing Country-Album-Page-Slot for my locations and it works but theres a better way out there somoewhere. For example my 1920 penny is “US-1-1-20” Ill check out that software because I saw you could upload images and having a reference of the exact coin you have could be make-or-break if you find a coin you think might be of higher quality.
Ive been playing with a Pano Image setup where I use a coin microscope to take 4 photos of the front, and 4 of the back and stitch them together in high detail. seems like I get anywhere from 3-5mb per stitched photo.
If I tried that my beloved spouse would only "tidy” everything to a secret safer location and fill up the shelves with art supplies… 😅
We tend to fill up our small house rather quickly, so boxes under my desk it is for me for now.
ITs about the same for me for now. I have 2 albums full of coins that just sit on the edge of my desk. Eventually Ill break out and get some shelving but I also work full time 7-7 so I rarely have time to go shopping for things like that as everything is closed by the time I get off work.
As is my end-of-year tradition, I'm posting my collection in this topic.
Happy New Year to all!
Just out of curiosity, how are you storing all those coins?
Hi my friend, this is how I storage my coin collection, in 253 albums all world coins. The sets, coin cards and some special coins and in cases are stored in drawers. I keep the coins from Spain in special albums. I have my collection registered in Numista and in an Excel file where I indicate which albums each country has.
And this is how I storage my doubles for my swaps.
Coin referee for: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea, Marshall Islands, Moldova, Liberia and Spain
Banknote referee for: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea and Spain
As is my end-of-year tradition, I'm posting my collection in this topic.
Happy New Year to all!
Just out of curiosity, how are you storing all those coins?
Hi my friend, this is how I storage my coin collection, in albums all world coins. The sets, coin cards and some special coins and in cases are stored in drawers. I keep the coins from Spain in special albums. I have my collection registered in Numista and in an Excel file where I indicate which albums each country has.
And this is how I storage my doubles for my swaps.
Oh wow! Thank you! In the albums are they stored in flips inside the binder sheets, or do your sheets just have little pockets for the coins?
I'm still fairly new into my collection, somewhere just north of 1k coins but am trying to figure out a standard so I dont have to reorganize every time something gets full.
When I started my collection (my father gave it to me), I only had twelve albums, and they used strips that held the coins directly. There are sheets of different strip sizes, for coins of varying sizes (see image). Since I started this way, as the collection grew (especially from 2014 onwards when I shared it with my father) I was unable to change the storage system.
This system isn't airtight for the coins, so if you're just starting out (which is what I would do if I were starting now), I would use sheets designed to hold cardboard inserts; it's better for preserving the coins, like the ones in this image. Another advantage of the cardboard is that they allow you to write information about each coin (issuer, catalog code, face value, year...)
And this is an example from my Excel file (Zimbabwe, Southern Rhodesia period), where I indicate the album in which I keep these coins (No. 253)
Coin referee for: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea, Marshall Islands, Moldova, Liberia and Spain
Banknote referee for: Andorra, Equatorial Guinea and Spain
This map however does not fully represent my collection. I did not add 1970 UK proof set and 1997 Zimbabwe proof set yet, because referees currently don't accept new set requests.
ashloboThe last time I had pasted in one of the older threads was back in Feb 2020
Here’s how it stands now
added some 700 coin, 3 countries and 12 issuers over the last almost 2years !
3 yrs later and I’ve obviously slowed down quantity wise, but probably improved quality wise imo. Not too shabby
Almost six months later and up by 167 coins at 11286. Over the next year I foresee slowing down even more. Invariably I have found that I prefer buying a handful of coins at local coin shows in person. There are a couple of exchanges I will also do With fellow Numista members over 2026, but I think if I were to increase my collection even by a 100 coins next year, that would be quite the achievement !
When I started my collection (my father gave it to me), I only had twelve albums, and they used strips that held the coins directly. There are sheets of different strip sizes, for coins of varying sizes (see image). Since I started this way, as the collection grew (especially from 2014 onwards when I shared it with my father) I was unable to change the storage system.
This system isn't airtight for the coins, so if you're just starting out (which is what I would do if I were starting now), I would use sheets designed to hold cardboard inserts; it's better for preserving the coins, like the ones in this image. Another advantage of the cardboard is that they allow you to write information about each coin (issuer, catalog code, face value, year...)
And this is an example from my Excel file (Zimbabwe, Southern Rhodesia period), where I indicate the album in which I keep these coins (No. 253)
Thank you so much for this! I think that I will find some binders that allow for 2x2 coin flips, Likely collect 1 of each type in the binders, but for the same type with different years I might put those in boxes for now.
If you collect by date there are also 30 pocket pages for smaller 1.5"x1.5" cardboard holders to safe quite a bit of space on smaller coins. Unfortunately for me I have seen them only from US suppliers and nobody imports them to the EU as far as I know but for an individual the import is prohibitively expensive (relative low value but bulky).
In one year 201 extra types and 10 extra issuers Happy collecting in 2023 to all!
Not much progress clearly on the coin front … getting harder and harder. In only managed to overcome the 2022 additions by a few coins during the last three years: just over 200 coins added (though a bunch of eurocoins still need adding) , 2 countries lost and just over 20 new issuers. The colours on the map have not changed at all 😉
Adding my banknotes map too, that have increased a lot these last few years
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
This is the highest amount of coins in my collection ever recorded. Numsta timeline says I had 8,611 “items” in my collection between 18 August and 4 September 2020, but I believe banknotes had been added earlier that year, so it's probably a mix of coins and banknotes.
Anyhow, this is my dashboard as of today, Jan. 1 20206 at 15:42:
