Software

[stnick38]

Are any of you using any form of software in conjunction with your coin collecting? I'm curious about what software and how you use it to help with what you are doing.

[68Camaro]

KISS for me. Excel, email, and a browser cover 99.9% of my needs.

[Engineer]

I have Excel set up to automatically calculate the total ounces, spot value, and APMEX buy price of my core stack.

[LooseChange]

I use excel...easiest and most familiar for me.

Its primary use for me, is to track at any given point how much money I have tied up in sorting, as well as my personal tracking sheet for value sorted/what I found.
My worksheet has tabs for Each Coin denomination and one for dumps. On the last tab, I calculate My Sorting Cash, my dumps (Quantity for each denomination each time), and how many coins I have sitting at the house to return.

Each denomination tab has spots for how much Coin I picked up, from where, date arrived/date sorted, quantity, type (CWR/Box/Loose), how many kept/why (Pennies are the most elaborate with wheats/foreign/copper/zinc).

I started this on a legal pad and after 2 days, I had to enter it in the computer. IF you are thinking about using a spreadsheet, I highly recommend it Especially if you get into sorting multiple types of coins.

[Bigsarge]

I'm going to quadruple the Excel endorsements, and for the same reasons listed. I do separate spreadsheets and use it for general tracking of .999 and %90, nickel tracking, %90 roll searching and copper penny sorting. I have it programed to calculate ratios, weights, cost averages and whatever else pops into my mind in the middle of the night.