Best and worst coin web sites
Longacre
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Here is my opinion of the web sites of some of the major coin dealers:
1. Bowers & Merena-- just a plain mess; not very well organized and extremely cluttered.
2. Heritage-- tons of information, but way too cluttered on the opening page. Lots going on, but you need to look beyond the clutter.
3. ANR-- very clean and basis; very easy to use and navigate. Does nto have a ton of research info, but the articles by Bowers are great.
4. Pinnacle--good site with a lot of good articles; could be updated for a fresher look.
5. David Lawrence--pretty well laid out, except for the continual shameless promotions about the Richmond Collection.
6. Legend--extremely out of date and needs a serious overhaul in terms of its "look". Great market reports, though.
Anyone have any comments or other sites to review?
1. Bowers & Merena-- just a plain mess; not very well organized and extremely cluttered.
2. Heritage-- tons of information, but way too cluttered on the opening page. Lots going on, but you need to look beyond the clutter.
3. ANR-- very clean and basis; very easy to use and navigate. Does nto have a ton of research info, but the articles by Bowers are great.
4. Pinnacle--good site with a lot of good articles; could be updated for a fresher look.
5. David Lawrence--pretty well laid out, except for the continual shameless promotions about the Richmond Collection.
6. Legend--extremely out of date and needs a serious overhaul in terms of its "look". Great market reports, though.
Anyone have any comments or other sites to review?
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6. Legend--extremely out of date and needs a serious overhaul in terms of its "look". Great market reports, though.
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I think their biggest problem is too many font colors, types, and sizes. It also takes a good eye for design to pull off using a black background. Airplanenut's sites are an example of how to do it well.
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I like the Heritage auction records, too. Heritage has been quite useful to me.
Cameron Kiefer
Legend I love but when I'm done I'm DIZZY and NAUSEOUS!!!
sooooo we're down to the top coin site other than HERITAGE which everyone knows is tops (if you don't trust me - check it out!!) and the winner is IMHO:
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WHITLOW's !!! don't have the address but look up Larry Whitlow or better yet get hold of Mike Printz.
Mike is my ideal coin dealer
Marc
P.S. I'd probably add the PCGS boards just to obnoxious
Heritage gets the nod hands down due to their search feature, among other things. ANR takes wonderful photos and is off to a flying start, I hope they add a searchable database down the road and don't remove any of their archives. B&M's search function has been under construction forever.
Just the fact that you list Legend, Pinnacle and DL with these major houses says a lot about these dealers. But you really can't compare them as the same animal. All three have improved their image quality 10-fold over the past couple of years, especially Pinnacle & Legend, and what's more important than that to collectors? They surpass Heritage and B&M in that respect. But again, they have far less coins to image so it's not fair to compare them.
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As for the most annoying in the list, it`s this: http://overdate1.tripod.com/coinvarieties/index.html . The web design is outdated compared to what is out there now and has pop-ups. But, the information given is a good, quicky reference to coin varieties when you`re on line.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - ANR, please add a searchable auction archive to your web site.
What about Superior? I don't see much, if any, mention of them. Their site is horrible and should take honors for worst.
Heritage is by far the best. Their imaging stinks, but the archives and other bells and whistles on their site puts them clearly in the lead. Their imaging is like Paul Hamm falling on his a$$ on the vault, but they still get the gold (although I hear that is still in dispute, Hamm's gold that is)
Jack
Second place goes to Heritage.
Third place is a tie with Pinnacle and JJ Teaparty.
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#2 Legend. Say what you all want, their site is easy to use-and its fast. They really keep their site up date on inventory and Market Reports.
#3 ANR. Quick, clean, easy to use. I like reading their articles too.
I do not like David Lawrence's site-not layed out well to my tastes. Pinnacles is ok, I don't like their images.
Mike
I no longer bother with their offerings.
Heritage, OTOH, needs to take serious photography lessons.
yup I forgot to mention that - his pictures rock.
the linky is Text
Marc