This won't be another ordinary "show us xxx thread", but you can actually make a difference here. As probably you know, there is a collection metal composition table on your dashboards. I will start with mine:
As you see, there are a lots of "Others". This is something I would to mostly eliminate. Our problem here is that for example Copper-Nickel/ Copper Nickel/ copper-nickel are NOT counted as Copper-nickel but they go to Others. As there are lots of metal variations, I hope to establish some recommended metal list for referees, so we can eliminate the "Others"
Also, it could help us solve some other troubles with metals. You can see your Dashboard table on French side, probably even Aluminium will show different number for you.
I did bring this up in a Numista website suggestion, that we have a drop-down box for selecting the metals rather than a free text box, which would eliminate both the different ways to enter metals, and spelling mistakes. Like many other suggestions I and others have made, the consensus was pretty positive but nothing came of it.
I suppose you're not surprised at all that nothing has been done. Numista website section is some kind of free discussions forum where people just talk. Actually it's good that we are creative and we expose our ideas but it's just in the benefit of our health.
I wish the problem of two previous metals good be corrected...i have several platinum and gold and gold and silver bimetals that dont figure in my precious metal counts. My understanding is these issues would be in other metals?
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What is about "manganic Brass"?
What is the composition of this alloy.
Is it just Brass with Mangan?
Should we list it as Brass?
I think, we shoud ad a field for detailed Informations about the aloys for each coin sheet.
For example "Nordic Gold". What exactly is this. (An alloy of Aluminium, Nickel, Copper...)
Or Brass. There are many different Brass alloys.
The main field should stay for "Copper-nickel" and "Brass" and so on. But the second field should be filled with informations like "Copper075-Nickel025" for usual Copper-nickel or "Copper081-Nickel019" for an other Copper-nickel alloy.
If we only write Copper-nickel, we will loose important informations, i think.
Quote: "Eerovisser"Nordic Gold should be added to the list, looks like right now the are included in th Others category.
Names like Nordic Gold (commercial name) and German Silver or Nickel Silver (colloquial names) can be quite misleading. Internet dealers rarely try to pass Nordic Gold for real gold, but there is a small army of them who try to pass German Silver coins for real silver, which is an easy trap for the unexperienced.
It would be my preference if Numista held on to some convention to name alloys by their elements: Copper-Aluminium-Zinc-Tin, or Copper-Nickel-Zinc, respectively.
Quote: "Eerovisser"Nordic Gold should be added to the list, looks like right now the are included in th Others category.
Names like Nordic Gold (commercial name) and German Silver or Nickel Silver (colloquial names) can be quite misleading. Internet dealers rarely try to pass Nordic Gold for real gold, but there is a small army of them who try to pass German Silver coins for real silver, which is an easy trap for the unexperienced.
It would be my preference if Numista held on to some convention to name alloys by their elements: Copper-Aluminium-Zinc-Tin, or Copper-Nickel-Zinc, respectively.
National Bank of Ukraine uses the 'Nickel silver' or 'German silver', but personally for me it's confusing, that's why as a referee of Ukraine I do my best to substitute all 'German silver' or 'Nickel silver' with 'Copper-nickel-zinc', which definitely makes more sense.
The funny thing is,
I read "German Silver" for my first time here in Numista.
I knew it as "Neusilber" (New Silver). Every German collector calls it "Neusilber". Never heard that someone says "Deutsches Silber" or "German Silver". So i was very surprised to read this.
We should write the composition. This makes much more sense. I agree.
More useful? It is awesome! 
