Numista is by no means the first coin site I have been involved with. It is, however, the best. I was a member of another coin site about 2 years ago, it seemed friendly enough at first glance but proved to be quite the contrary. I would post pictures of new coins I had purchased with the expectation that others would praise them as well. Instead I got a multitude of comments like 'I would never pay that," "they aren't worth that" etc. They had a "secret Santa" thing at the end of that year and I eagerly put my name forward. The list came out of who was matched with who and my name was nowhere to be found, people just tended to ignore and insult this poor kiwi on the other side of the world. So I left that site and tried a couple of others, they lacked any form of regular interactivity, either that or people just ignored my messages. It put me off coin sites for a long time, perhaps 18 months. Then I came across this site and gave it another go, I cannot say enough good things about this site. Everyone has been friendly and generous and I have completed quite a few trades with many of you from all over the world. It has certainly renewed my faith in coin sites, this is obviously where all the nice collectors congregate, so thanks to all of you that have traded with me and a very big thank you to those of you that keep this site running so smoothly. Any future collectors I might come across I shall certainly be directing them here. Have a great day everyone
Mark (Kiwi)
I've never really participated in any other coin sites, but Numista definitely has a very friendly and convivial community of collectors. I have had minimal poor experiences (a couple of IMO swap requests where agreement on a balanced value could not be found) and I've had quite a few more swaps that were excellent indeed. (The best swaps are those rare and special ones where both sides each think they got the better deal! ) To say nothing of the amount I have learned from the experienced collectors in the forums.
I've had quite a few swaps where both sides think they have the better deal, because some coins that are readily available in this part of the world are not so easy to come by in other parts of the world, and visa versa.
I haven't been on any other sites, but I have heard that older member from other sites tend to be pretty arrogant towards new collectors or members that only collect modern coins
This site is generally pretty good. Of course on a site with this many members there's always a couple who ruin it for everyone, but they moderators usually do a pretty good job of cracking down on them pretty quickly
Quote: "neilithic"I've had quite a few swaps where both sides think they have the better deal, because some coins that are readily available in this part of the world are not so easy to come by in other parts of the world, and visa versa.
I haven't been on any other sites, but I have heard that older member from other sites tend to be pretty arrogant towards new collectors or members that only collect modern coins
This site is generally pretty good. Of course on a site with this many members there's always a couple who ruin it for everyone, but they moderators usually do a pretty good job of cracking down on them pretty quickly
I tend to agree with that. I was on another forum which was less about swapping, more about coin related information. It was all jolly at first before you started noticing a large clique with a very arrogant my way or the high way attitude. For instance...anything which did not fit into their "pure circulation coin" criteria was branded a pseudo-coin...which basically was a back handed way to say my collection or parts of it were unworthy, and by extension, I as well. I appreciate the base logic, but it needn't have been so condescending. Though I must admit I did not end it in the most dignified way I could. I was on that forum for a few years and towards the end I was already switching over to numista. I'm happy here to mostly swap and comment from time to time. But the moment things start turning nasty, I'm going to hold my counsel ! I've learnt my less ;)
Thankfully, unlike that other forum, the membership here is much more widely dispersed and it seems to have room for all tastes
In 2005 I started being a regular user of World Coin Gallery. It is more of a reference site than a user community, built on Web v1.0 architecture. Back then, very little numismatic material on world coins was online for free, so WCG seemed pretty neat. It was my first contact with fascinating coin types that would not join my collection until years later.
But WCG is stuck in 2002. The number of new features introduced over the last decade can be counted on one hand, and the only man who can build the database, owner Don Norris, only adds about 2,000 new coin types per year. It is obvious he can't keep up, and there is no system for deputies to work with. There is zero support or information on dates, mintmarks, currencies or history.
WCG started a rudimentary swap and sale network, which I used a few times. But the only feature that keeps me coming back is the standardized coin photos... all the same resolution and scaled to match the coin's real dimensions. I use these for a side project, one where a hodge podge of images won't do.
About that time, I also started frequenting TreasureNet, a metal detecting community. I've never done such, but have always been curious. I haunted the "coin roll hunting" subforum for a few years.
I hesitate to mention RealCent, a community built around hoarding copper coins (and nickel, even silver). This was the same time that the 2008 recession kicked Earth's economy in the teeth, and these armchair analysists posted interesting commentary. I bought some bulk lots from the sales forum, including some silver at melt value. But RealCent filled up with godawful survivalists, preppers, conspiracy nuts, and the worst vitriol of American politics. I was taking daily sanity damage, and I left without looking back. This is when I found Numista.
I joined Colnect in 2013. The database is inconsistant, and it lacks a user friendly swapping engine like Numista's, but I use it as my back-up inventory. They also support banknotes, stamps, trading cards, and other things I can't list here. My biggest gripe with Colnect is the NIF file system of catalog management. Yuck!
Numista is a coin collector's shangri-la, and you won't find better.
I did try to use other site.
was to frustrated to try to add a coin so i left it.
also numista give us the chance to put the year quantity and grade of the coins you have so it's a great way to have an inventory of your collection
Sorry no Swaps. Paraguay Post Office is to risky and they don't allow to send coins nor notes
Quote: "Kiwi" I would post pictures of new coins I had purchased with the expectation that others would praise them as well. Instead I got a multitude of comments like 'I would never pay that," "they aren't worth that" etc. They had a "secret Santa" thing at the end of that year and I eagerly put my name forward. The list came out of who was matched with who and my name was nowhere to be found, people just tended to ignore and insult this poor kiwi on the other side of the world.
That sounds just like my experience before finding Numista. I have a feeling it is going to be the same place as well . I made one post about a "PreDecimal wink* wink*" Farthing variety. I posted there knowing Colin from AboutFarthings would see the post and possibly enlighten me. Needless to say that was my first and last over there after a torrent of abuse, all spanning several pages about how it was nothing special, telling me it was a well known variety and repeating over and over it was worthless, even though I already knew it wasn't going to be worth much even if it was a rare variety, they just wouldn't stop tossing insults throughout so I deleted my account and removed all posted images. Funny part is it was a variety that Colin from AboutFarthings did not have or knew about! Talk about them eating their own words, which was satisfying.
I look up factual sites for info, but I wouldn't stray from Numista because I simply do not need to.
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i checked out that site by creating an account and spent too my time to add coins and banknotes..it was really time consuming and not very user friendly, i reckon..i couldn't even find the forum - if there is any..
Quote: "Kiwi"I was a member of another coin site about 2 years ago, it seemed friendly enough at first glance but proved to be quite the contrary. I would post pictures of new coins I had purchased with the expectation that others would praise them as well. Instead I got a multitude of comments like 'I would never pay that," "they aren't worth that" etc. They had a "secret Santa" thing at the end of that year and I eagerly put my name forward. The list came out of who was matched with who and my name was nowhere to be found, people just tended to ignore and insult this poor kiwi on the other side of the world.
...that wasn't CCF, I hope?
CCF is one of my favorite coin sites (arguably better than Numista in terms of the forum, though of course it doesn't have Numista's database), but I do recall that they might occasionally not be especially nice to newbies making newbie mistakes.
I hadn't been a newbie for a while (arguably since before joining CCF), so it never really affected me.
As for Secret Santa... IIRC, the CCF version had a 50 post requirement for participation. If you didn't have 50 posts yet (and it sounds like you probably didn't), it's very much possible that you got silently skipped.
I see this is an old thread, but other users might like to try the reddit page for coins (reddit.com/r/coins)
Not a replacement for Numista by any means, but a nice place for casual discusion that seems to move more quickly than a traditional forum.
Overall Numista is the best dedicated site for world coins.
i checked out that site by creating an account and spent too my time to add coins and banknotes..it was really time consuming and not very user friendly, i reckon..i couldn't even find the forum - if there is any..
Aww. Sorry mate, I thought that this website could of made things alot more easier to. I'm new to this hobbie of coin collecting, and since I was researching coin collecting communitys, that one website popped up saying that it was simlar to this website, sorry that it didn't worked out for you.
Also, you only have 17 more countries to look for each coin mate? Congrats that you are almost done your goal mate, that sounds like a extremely hard challenge to do, and you have almost completed it. I give you two thumbs up mate! And keep up the great work on your coin collecting mate. :)
Lots of ads, poor search capability. Each year and mintmark is a separate catalog entry.
On the other hand, they support banknotes amd stamps, too.
Im really sorry man. I was searching up similar websites to Numista and this one popped up. I thought it was good, but with all of the reply's I'm getting about Allnumis is not good, and I have never new that Allnumis had poor searching catalog and lots of ads, I will say then that Allnumis is not a recommended website for coin collecters then. I'm really sorry to here that.
i checked out that site by creating an account and spent too my time to add coins and banknotes..it was really time consuming and not very user friendly, i reckon..i couldn't even find the forum - if there is any..
Aww. Sorry mate, I thought that this website could of made things alot more easier to. I'm new to this hobbie of coin collecting, and since I was researching coin collecting communitys, that one website popped up saying that it was simlar to this website, sorry that it didn't worked out for you.
Also, you only have 17 more countries to look for each coin mate? Congrats that you are almost done your goal mate, that sounds like a extremely hard challenge to do, and you have almost completed it. I give you two thumbs up mate! And keep up the great work on your coin collecting mate. :)
no need to be sorry, mate! i guess we'r just so used to numista, its user friendly catalogue, and not too many annoying ads. you know, it's tough to ride the metro when you're used to a ferrari the only downside with numista is that we yet don't have banknkoes
aw, cheers mate! i've been standing still on 17 for a few years now. been more focusing on my banknote collection lately. will try to complete my mission some day, though.
) To say nothing of the amount I have learned from the experienced collectors in the forums.
the only downside with numista is that we yet don't have banknkoes 
