Adding my collection to Numista, the journey

I've tried to do this before, but lost patience and it's ended up very fragmented. So I'm making this narcissistic thread to try and motivate myself to do it properly.

I've had a free weekend and managed to organise most of my collection into a single spreadsheet, so I'm now going to try to add it ALL to numista, making the pages required as I go along.

This will probably be a boring topic to most, but I'll be documenting my frustrations and joys, and adding of each coin to this thread.

I look forward to drooling over the coins you add.

I hear you, it took me nearly 3yrs between 2013-2016 to upload my entire collection + want list on Numista. I tackled it by country and often it got so monotonous, I’d stop for weeks before I pushed myself to do it again. But ever since, it’s now a breeze to evaluate swap proposals and updates take just a few mins every other week. So I can definitely say it’s worth it

It's rather strange that it seems easier to google search the catalogue than use the numista inbuilt search! That's one small tip

Yeah, I've found that the Google search for a coin usually brings up the Numista page as the first or second result. I guess that is a testament to how popular the site is. Luckily since I've decided to have a collection with a really narrow focus, it's really easy to stay on top of cataloguing them. I'm only buying 2 or 3 coins per month.

I've only added 3 coins this past few months to my core collection but I'm super happy with all of them as I've been searching a long while.

Just added one of them to numista! https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces174341.html

These are the other 2. One very common, but almost impossible to find in the condition I wanted, and one R4 and excessively rare.




Took me over 2 years to find that rouble and I paid 20x the 'average cost', yet the average cost of it on numista in XF is £30....

I loved listing my collection on numista. It gave me the chance to look at each coin as I listed. Every year when the new Krause comes out, I take several relaxing evenings of marking up my new catalogs with my collection. It isnt as sterile as it sounds...all of my coins have notes on them...where I got them, who owned the coin before me, what collection it's from, which family or friend gave it to me. And for me, whether it is a plate coin or not.

Wow! That rouble is top class!

Keep on posting, please, the journey is the most exciting part of collecting. As I usually buy 2 or 3 coins per month, my journey isn't that exciting apparently :)

Thanks! Yes that rouble took me a LONG time to find, and in the end I even compromised my priniciples a bit (you see the slight wear/poor strike on the small eagles crowns)

I've added another one to the catalogue now (a newfoundland 5 cents) and am trying to add a 3rd but struggling.

This is the medal

https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_numismatic_enterprise/9/product/france_french_canada_louis_xiv_quebec_liberated_1690_bronze_medal_41_mm_3363_gm_12h_signed_by_j_mauger_paris_mint_restrike/44680/Default.aspx
https://www.emedals.com/an-1690-king-louis-xiv-quebec-liberated-medal-c2975
(obviously not these EXACT ones)

but I basically have no idea how to add or title exonomia/medals. Perhaps somebody could help?

I thought medals were removed from the catalogue, decision coming from Xavier the big cheese himself.

Quote: "neilithicman"​I thought medals were removed from the catalogue, decision coming from Xavier the big cheese himself.

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Nope? I think they just got moved to exonumia. It has loads of medals. Unless you mean military medals?

Yes, just military medals (like "for valor etc"...) were removed. There actually were not that many at all.

Quote: "Jarcek"​Yes, just military medals (like "for valor etc"...) were removed. There actually were not that many at all.

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Can you/somebody teach me how to add the damned things?

With the exception of a couple of ship 2 dukats that I'll need to add to the catalogue later I've finally added my entire Denmark collection!!!

ZAR is done. GB is pretty much done too, probably Sweden or India next.

You can use this as template https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces53396.html

Apuking added that flawlessly.