MCSEARCH for auction values of better Coins

[numismatist]

Now that the Spink search engine appears to have died and

DNW have lost most of their archived photos I find that

" mcsearch " is the best . Just Google and search their site

and you find great results. I think its the best ? or at

least the best I've ever found. Just tried " 1554 Shilling "

and there are masses of Photos . Not many Collectors have

heard of it. Well worth a good look..

[coin watch]

Now that the Spink search engine appears to have died and

DNW have lost most of their archived photos I find that

" mcsearch " is the best . Just Google and search their site

and you find great results. I think its the best ? or at

least the best I've ever found. Just tried " 1554 Shilling "

and there are masses of Photos . Not many Collectors have

heard of it. Well worth a good look..

The only way I have managed to get into the Spink archive is to log in using my old client number, but other than having a this number I really don't know how you could gain access to the old images? Agreed it's been made more difficult and to find something specific takes time. mcsearch is ok or coin archives, but sometimes a google images search works well if you put in the info!

[numismatist]

Thanks I will check out Coin archives, not seen that before.

Just tried Spinks again (with my client number) but it all

froze up on me and I had to pull the power on my computer

and restart because there was no way of closing down the

Spink website or doing anything with it.

[coin watch]

Thanks I will check out Coin archives, not seen that before.

Just tried Spinks again (with my client number) but it all

froze up on me and I had to pull the power on my computer

and restart because there was no way of closing down the

Spink website or doing anything with it.

Yeah they haven't made it an easy search, much better before. Also look at other auction houses, some do have an easier archive, try noble.co.au A very easy search with a good number of coins sold going back a decade or so!

[coin watch]

Thanks I will check out Coin archives, not seen that before.

Just tried Spinks again (with my client number) but it all

froze up on me and I had to pull the power on my computer

and restart because there was no way of closing down the

Spink website or doing anything with it.

Yeah they haven't made it an easy search, much better before. Also look at other auction houses, some do have an easier archive, try noble.co.au A very easy search with a good number of coins sold going back a decade or so!

Correction www.noble.com.au

[Peckris]

Thanks I will check out Coin archives, not seen that before.

Just tried Spinks again (with my client number) but it all

froze up on me and I had to pull the power on my computer

and restart because there was no way of closing down the

Spink website or doing anything with it.

??? Why not just force quit your browser? You don't need to pull the power and restart!

[TomGoodheart]

mcsearch (and its companion acsearch (for ancient coins) are fine, but has a limited number of auction houses it draws upon. CoinArchives is a good alternative, but was far better when you were allowed access to the archive (and so more than 100 results) without paying! Christies and Noble have a few old catalogues archived (with photos) which, if they happen to be ones you're after, can be handy. But yes, finding decent photographic records can be a struggle.

I can see why sites like CoinArchives now charge for full access to their database, but at US$600 (464 EUR) a year it's beyond what I can pay and not being associated with an academic institution I can't benefit from the academic rate (which still isn't free)

As for Spink, well I've contacted them several times about the site but it hasn't improved the search algorithm or user friendliness of the site so I'd rate it as somewhere between crap to completely useless.

I use half a dozen or so different coin search sites, plus dealers of course, but as coinwatch says, sometimes Google images is the easiest option.

[numismatist]

Thanks, all very useful info.

Regret I'm a computer novice, though had one for about 10 years,

but very very slowly learning new tricks !!

[TomGoodheart]

Thanks, all very useful info.

Regret I'm a computer novice, though had one for about 10 years,

but very very slowly learning new tricks !!

Well, obviously it's easiest if you only collect a small range of coins. And of course, copyright issues mean that you can only use it for personal study purposes (if that) .. but keeping your own records of coins you are interested in is of course a very useful option:

[Peckris]

If you visit Colin Cooke Coins, and click the Collections tab, there are a lot of great pictures there.

[Nicholas]

I agree with the findings regarding spink and DNW archive searches. What frustrates me most about Spink is that the web site telling us all how good this site is not to mention the live auction function crashing a few months ago leaving us to use Salesroom. I've found the only way to really go deep into archives for free (600euro p.a. silly money for coinarchives pro) is going to each coin company sites and go thru it manually Goldberg (weak) Hetitage (good), Stacks ( weak only lists individual catalogues) noble ( good). Spink (weak, can't handle more than one key word ! !!) Rasmussen (average) CNG ( good) . MCSearch ( reasonable and has sorting on auction date or value)

[Nicholas]

Plus Baldwins (weak only lists catalogues), London coins (ok) Colin Cooke (average) off the top of my head.

[Paulus]

Plus Baldwins (weak only lists catalogues), London coins (ok) Colin Cooke (average) off the top of my head.

Welcome Nicholas!