Request thickness be added as a numerical range search filter

Hello,

I would like to request that the thickness value be one of the filters that can be used similar to diameter and year where a range can be specified.

I have a thing for chunky coins. Specifically medium diameter with some thickness to them. An example is the british 3 pence that is 12 sided, N# 1020. It is 21mm diameter, and 2.6mm thickness. I would love to be able to explore other world coins of similar dimensions.

Bonus: Add side count as a value for all coins and also make that searchable. I know I can use text search on the "Shape" field for sides and name of shape like Dodecagonal and that works reasonably well, but a numerical count/search might be more accurate.

Thank you for the consideration!

Can this be added?

It would be lovely

 

I really have trouble without the thickness search, it is really hard to search for coins especially if they are old and ancient

For ancient coins this would help you even less then for modern ones. The thickness often varies greatly because of the nature of manually hammered coins and the information is almost always missing anyway.

What percent of coins (or non-banknote exonumia) have a thickness listed?

 

In other words, what percent of matches would be excluded because the information isn't present? (Or does the search include everything without a thickness because it might be a match?)

This feature would be very useful for identifying damaged coins if implemented as the Weight and Size fields. I mean, allow the user to search for a thickness range. 

Use case: I have a damaged Macedonian coin that I cannot see many details on. However, I can easily measure it with a caliper or a ruler. If I have the size/diameter, thickness, and weight (for which I can take advantage of the range feature), it becomes pretty easy to spot the coin. Even if I don't know the country, these 3 measures would emilitate thousents coins from the list. And if you have any small pieces for another search criterion, such as some number, text fragment, etc, probably the coin would be almost unique in the search result.

Also, adding the Edge style as a search criterion could be very useful for this use case.

I hope my use case is helpful.

The vast majority of coins in the catalog do not have thickness values so relying on searching a specific thickness range would more than likely eliminate the very coin you're searching for.  Before this can be useful the coins in the catalog would have to be populated with their thicknesses which is problematic at best.

 

Edge style search is being tracked here:  https://en.numista.com/forum/topic66736.html