Hello,
I often see in flea markets some coin-collectors with different photocopies of coins catalogs when Numista might issue a wordcoins reference book all at once !
By packing a little, one can put 80 coins per face, on a letter format (A4), 160 coins per sheet, and the entire database in 625 sheets. That's a lot, but it's still realistic
There should be the name, issuing date boundaries, material, weight, diameter, KM# number and a little place for checking your coin (for example writing the date)
Imagine the possibilities if some mechanism could be introduced to add the current market value of each coin.... that would be something eh? My dear Imreh suggested something along those lines a while ago, I hope it's still being considered.
In an age where the CEO of Nestle (boycott!!!) tells us that that there is no public right to drinking water, here we are enjoying the world's most informative and responsive coin catalog without any charge whatsoever. Of course it's a collaborative creation but someone has to pay for the servers, deal with the technical and personal issues and keep the lights on. Without Numista the coin collecting world would be less bright.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
Quote: "pnightingale"Imagine the possibilities if some mechanism could be introduced to add the current market value of each coin.... that would be something eh? My dear Imreh suggested something along those lines a while ago, I hope it's still being considered.
In an age where the CEO of Nestle (boycott!!!) tells us that that there is no public right to drinking water, here we are enjoying the world's most informative and responsive coin catalog without any charge whatsoever. Of course it's a collaborative creation but someone has to pay for the servers, deal with the technical and personal issues and keep the lights on. Without Numista the coin collecting world would be less bright.
Too true Phil...I hope you are in good health? Keep up the good fight!
It would be a bit presumptuous for Numista to claim the "World's most informative" title, as Colnect has over 91,000 entries in their coin catalog, only 968 of which fall in the Fantasy category and tokens (8482 entries) and medals (22,293 entries) having their own separate catalogs.
Quote: "Houseofham"It would be a bit presumptuous for Numista to claim the "World's most informative" title, as Colnect has over 91,000 entries in their coin catalog, only 968 of which fall in the Fantasy category and tokens (8482 entries) and medals (22,293 entries) having their own separate catalogs.
Yes, with several thousands stolen numista images.
Quote: "Jarcek"Illegal much. And it is actually somehow funny to point to colnect which uses info from numista as more informative.
There have been multiple threads filled with complaints about this. Frankly, it does not interest me in the least bit. Nothing has come out of it and nothing will, so you might as well stop complaining and get back to doing things that you came here to do, things that would make Numista better than Colnect.
Quote: "druzhynets"What are you doing on Numista if Colnect is better for you? LOL
I help make it better, just like I help make Colnect better, by contributing to the catalog, sharing my knowledge, and making suggestions.
"Shut up and work." You could save a lot of meaningless characters...
When did we get to lecturing me, what should I do? Besides, one should never stop complaining, when somebody is doing something illegal. It is what makes us free, on the contrary to those who stick their heads to sand.
Quote: "Jarcek""Shut up and work." You could save a lot of meaningless characters...
When did we get to lecturing me, what should I do? Besides, one should never stop complaining, when somebody is doing something illegal. It is what makes us free, on the contrary to those who stick their heads to sand.
To answer your question - right around the time when you tried to shift focus from which site offers more information to the topic of "stealing" coin pictures. I don't know about you, but I'm more interested in providing reference information free of charge, rather than in the rather questionable applicability of the copyright law to coin pictures.
Whether you work or not is totally up to you, but Numista didn't get to where it is now with everyone just sitting on their asses, so, yeah, if you want to help, go do something useful. Complaining is pointless if it not followed by action.
Quote: "nthn"Yeah, let us keep working so you can steal it. That's a great incentive.
Really? Well, feel free to stop working, then.
ps: Are you accusing me personally of stealing something?
Quote: "Jarcek"I love when people do not know me. Numista offers more info, surely on earlier coinage, rather than modern commemoratives.
Just for info though.. when individual property of art (photograph) copyright became questionable?
I didn't post in this thread to get to know you, I posted to offer a very quick and simple observation. If you help Numista grow (and I know you do, when you're not busy complaining) - great. If you instead spend your time complaining about things nothing can be done about - you are wasting it. If people are adding more info about modern commemoratives to Colnect, than that is what interests and what is more useful to them.
Copyright of coin photographs (and art in general) has always been questionable. Laws are different in different countries and enforcing one country's laws in another country's jurisdiction presents an even bigger challenge.
I would love this idea. 
And it is actually somehow funny to point to colnect which uses info from numista as more informative. 
