What online resources do you use?

Zoins

I posted a version of this list in the advice for a new collector thread but thought it might be interesting on its own.

I do a lot of research online and use the following resources.

What do you use? What do you feel you cannot get online?

• CU forum - https://forums.collectors.com
• CoinFacts.com - http://www.coinfacts.com/
• PCGS CoinFacts - http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/
• PCGS Pops - https://www.pcgs.com/pop/
• ATS Pops
• Heritage Auctions - https://www.ha.com/
• Red Book - https://www.whitman.com/redbook
• So-Called Dollars by Hibler & Kappen - https://books.google.com/books?id=15AyBb3RCtkC
• Alaska & Yukon Tokens - https://books.google.com/books?id=JN9QWiBSQ9oC
• E-Sylum - https://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum.html
• Newman Nusmismatic Portal - https://nnp.wustl.edu/
• Moonlight Mint Catalog - http://www.moonlightmint.com/coin_catalog.htm
• PCGS Books - https://www.pcgs.com/books/
• Abe Kosoff: Dean of Numismatics - https://www.pcgs.com/books/abekosoff/

bronzemat

CU & Cointalk Messageboards
ACsearch.info
http://wildwinds.com
https://cngcoins.com
https://ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/
https://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum.html

WCC

The first six (up to Heritage auctions) listed in the OP, NNP on occasion, ANS website and Sixbid.

ricko

This is a great thread for all forum members, but can be of special help to our new members with questions. There was a similar thread years ago listing resources and dealers... Cheers, RickO

Paradisefound

Thank you @Zions for the listing .... very useful to me as well

RogerB

Excellent list! Thanks for posting it for all to use.

I use the following on-line resources:
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Outhaul

Can this thread be stickied for all members (especially new collectors/YNs) to use for reference? You know, teach a man to fish...

Give someone a reference and they'll have knowledge for a lifetime.

Cheers

Bob

PerryHall

I use most of the resources already listed but I find PCGS Coin Facts to particularly useful.

Hemispherical

There is never too much information. Adding this thread... https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1006619/sticky-this-book-index-books-to-read-on-numismatic-series-and-varieties

carabonnair

I use Dave's Bust Half Dollar site http://www.busthalfaddict.com for attributing early half dollars

Aspie_Rocco

http://www.varietyvista.com

http://www.franklinlover.yolasite.com

https://forums.collectors.com/categories/u-s-coin-forum/

CoinFacts

coinsarefun

I type everything into Google first and look to see what it searches. Then I use pretty much everything you mentioned
@Zoins I also use civilwartokens.com I really wish more research material would go digital as it would be awesome
to see online research material instead of books. You can take it everywhere on kindle & mac's version.

Smudge

In addition to all the rest here except the adult stuff, I check out dealer web sites.

Raybob15239

How can it be that nobody mentioned www.VAMWorld.com?

Hallco

@Raybob15239 said:
How can it be that nobody mentioned www.VAMWorld.com?

It appears as though most people would rather just come here and start a "What Vam is this" thread?

Cougar1978

CDN, CPG, Kitco, TPG price guide, TPG verify, Coin Facts.

yosclimber

I do research on die varieties of Liberty Seated Half Dimes, and I use many of the same:

• PCGS CoinFacts - http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/ - I downloaded all the LS half dime photos - best photo source for tiny features
• Heritage Auctions - https://www.ha.com/ - I downloaded all the photos - good for estimating rarity
• Stack's Bowers Galleries - https://archive.stacksbowers.com/ - Excellent photos, although fewer than Heritage
• David Lawrence Rare Coins - https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us?collectionIds=256512 - good archive of auction photos
• Larry and Ira Goldberg Auctions - http://images.goldbergauctions.com/php/search1a.php?sale=0&cprg=11 - also excellent photos
• PCGS Auction Prices Realized - https://www.pcgs.com/auctionprices - useful as an index to the above (sometimes incomplete, especially for pre-2008)
• Gerry Fortin Rare Coins - http://seateddimevarieties.com/ForSaleList.html - fairly good current and archive photos
• Great Collections - https://www.greatcollections.com/Auction-Archive/US-Coin-Prices - I use these sometimes, although the photos are slightly too small for many die varieties
• ebay - https://www.ebay.com/ - Useful for many photos, usually of lower grade coins
• CU forum - https://forums.collectors.com - I saved all of @MrHalfDime's posts; the Liberty Seated photos thread is also good
• LSCC forum - https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/seateddimes/ - I saved all of MrHalfDime's posts
• Newman Nusmismatic Portal - https://nnp.wustl.edu/ - I downloaded all the Gobrecht Journals; also useful for some auction catalogs. They also have books like Blythe (1992 - note: has many errors), and Allan Gifford's Three Cent Nickel book
• PCGS Books - https://www.pcgs.com/books/ - I downloaded all the half dime entries from Breen's Proof Encyclopedia

Note: I downloaded and saved stuff above, because sometimes things disappear from the internet, and because I merge things like photos on my PC.

What do you feel you cannot get online?

• 3-D images (like when I put a coin under my stereo microscope); OK, I am fantasizing here...
• some of the auction catalogs that the NNP has excluded because they are in copyright (seems fair)
• improved coverage of pre-2008 auctions in PCGS Auction Prices Realized would be nice, but it would take effort and it's a free resource, so that's OK
• updated provenances in PCGS CoinFacts, but as above, it's free, so I can't really complain
• ebay completed auctions from more than 2 months ago, ditto

Some of the stuff I cannot get online is OK, because I have fun constructing it myself, such as rosters of the best coins for each die variety.