My Numista plans for 2020

Hello everyone!

Festive season is now mostly over and so it is time to make some plans regarding Numista for next year.

Personally, plan is rather simple in nature: "Keep working!" There is a lot of work on country list, curencies and rulers to be yet done.

Country list, which will hopefully update this year to allow better search/sort/select functions is still growing. Numista is taking leaps in areas that are arguably very hard to catalog. From thousands of types Roman empire, (for me absolutely illegible) Chinese and Indian ancient coinage and massive amounts of Greek city states to smallest Celtic tribes coins with word we don't even know the meaning of. Medievalists are making progress on the same rate in Latin and Islamic coinage catalogues. For the modern coins, we are even becoming overgrown. While Krause still lists more coins, we left them behind in terms of very recent coins. Being a historian, preserving of knowledge is very important to me and I will not rest until last, even the smallest medieval country will be added alongside tribes of people which settled our lands and which are now long gone.

With each new issuer comes also work with their currencies. And that is something I hope to finish this year. Currently, when you select currencies, you can choose any of them even from different country. This will be disallowed and you will be able to select only those assigned to selected country. This will make selecting currency easier and faster, with smaller margin for error.

Each country also has its own ruling authorities, which are slowly being added into the catalogue and subsequently to the coins as well. In the future, you should be able to search by rullers across several issuers. Asignation of rulers to their coins should be also done by the end of year. Also robot operated by Xavier helps a lot with this.

I also believe I should express my gratitude to all contributors, referees and team members who keep Numista together. Without your work, we would never got this far. Please don't ever feel that you are doing very little, even the smallest amount of work done by you in the smallest country means that nobody else has to do that. Ultimately, you help master referees concentrate on their job, you help me and Pejounet not to worry about requests and concentrate our time on database work and ultimately help Xavier not to worry about anything and work on the future updates.

In other words, thank you for being awesome and I wish you all stay that way in 2020!

Kind regards,
Jarek

Best of luck on your 2020 ambitions and a sincere thank you for all you've achieved in previous years. I'm very proud to call you a fellow collector.

Mate, you've done an amazing job and I have no idea how you have found the time or energy to go through the endless pile of ancient cities and tribes. I am very impressed, to say the least. I will continue to do my part, even though it's still like nothing compared to what you are doing.

Keep doing what you're doing mate, and I'm gonna tell you, again, what I am telling everyone who works day and night here on Numista: Don't forget that it's okay to take a break a little now and then. Numista will still be here, waiting for you!

I wish you a happy 2020!

Yours,
//H

You are doing a tremendous work for the whole community, so keep it on!

I should probably start on the currencies, but my main goal for 2020 is to reach 6000 types in the Ancient Greece catalogue, with of course a ton of new small and obscure issuers you'll need to add

Nice to read that year after year you get even more enthusiastic! Good luck and let's make Numista even better!

My goal for 2020 is to gradually make Rome great again

You are one of the reasons why I'm still here, so thank you.
Good luck, and here's to more success this year!

Fantastic work so far! and Good luck from now on!

Thanks Jarek
Your actions encourage the goodwill that follows your example.