Monitoring Changes in Coin Populations

Casabrown

Happy New Year to All,

Is there a less human intensive way to monitor changes in the pop reports other than frequent (and I guess for some Board members, daily) reviews of the PCGS pop report online? Unless I am missing something, for a collector, even those of us without a life and thus explaining why we visit the PCGS website daily, this is a tall order. For a dealer, it may be the price of doing business. What are your thoughts?

Casabrown

DMWJR

Conceptually I know you can create a "spider" that will automatically check web pages and alert you to changes, and download them. I am however to computer illiterate to know how to do it.

Casabrown

Doug,

Thanks for your response. I am in the same computer illiteracy club.

Casabrown

RELLA

I've been working on an Excel spreadsheet that would work as a low-tech spider substitute...once I get all the bugs out of the Lincoln one and write up an explanation of how to use it I was planning on sharing it with anyone here who is interested; and would be open to suggestions on future series projects (Jeffersons would be my next series left to my own devices).

I started building it for my own use...it essentially pulls out the MS 63+ RED population numbers for all issues and sorts them into the formats I use to track various registry set building projects I have...it creates versions for both Wheats and Memorials for either basic or variety sets, and also creates a table of all the population changes for each grade since the last update. It isn't automatic by any means but it has cut down my updating work by 90% even with the bugs.

If I don't have something done by the first of March feel free to call me up and holler at me about it.

RELLA

dbldie55

I have a database I update monthly along with a web interface to display the changes (between any two months you want to compare).

DMWJR

Rella, that would be great. I would love to see it.