If you could design a coin app...what would it be?

dmaybee

Hello, hello,

I create apps for iPhones and Androids as my other hobby. I have thought about creating a coin collecting app for awhile.
If you you create an app what features or ideas would you want it to have or do?
I might just make one if there are some neat ideas out there.
Any thoughts?

ricko

It would scan dealers and auctions and alert me when a specific coin(s) became available.....Cheers, RickO

TwoSides2aCoin

How about a built-in taser for every time a guy pays too much.

ms70

I'd make it much like CoinManage & have it so it syncs with my PC. Some sort of price guide for quick searching at shows. It would be great if there was an app that could average
several guides together and pop up the average price.

Roscoe

I go to shows looking for specific coins. To be able to carry a "want list" with maybe my top five and a secondary five, preloaded multiple APRs, and my personal max price as a quick reference would be wonderful. And it must have pic capabilities to remind me of variety details.

ms70

<< <i>I go to shows looking for specific coins. To be able to carry a "want list" with maybe my top five and a secondary five, preloaded multiple APRs, and my personal max price as a quick reference would be wonderful. And it must have pic capabilities to remind me of variety details. >>



+1

ModCrewman

Actually just thought of this after reading the thread title. How about an app that incorporates PCGS Secure Plus data and authenticates coins with a scan using the phone's camera.

That right there would be a money-making proposition for PCGS...if they use my idea, I only request a free lifetime subscription!

SPalladino

<< <i>Actually just thought of this after reading the thread title. How about an app that incorporates PCGS Secure Plus data and authenticates coins with a scan using the phone's camera. >>



along similar lines - photograph the coin cert# and get:
- auction history of the specific coin
- grade history of the coin
- "camparables" valuations
- eg, Secure Plus data
- (too bad we can't get CAC history, other than sticker)

numisma

I would want an app that would allow you to take a picture of a coin with your cell phone, you enter the asking price, and then it would tell you if it was a good deal or not.

Type2

You take a photo and it tells you if it is a Vam or over date or what ever it may be and if it looks real or not..

ms70

How about a feature that rates dealers?

Type2

<< <i>How about a feature that rates dealers?

>>

Ya with a photo like a mugshot.

TopographicOceans

Scan a PCGS bar code, and have it bring up all the details about the coin from the PCGS site, then display the sales data from eBay and Heritage and tell me what the price should be.

dogwood

Ya know, if I'm a dealer and everybody starts scanning my inventory with their smartphones, I'm gonna get an attitude.
Is that wrong of me?

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

<< <i>Scan a PCGS bar code, and have it bring up all the details about the coin from the PCGS site, then display the sales data from eBay and Heritage and tell me what the price should be. >>



...how about a real simple button that when pressed immediately turns Internet trolls into fart dust

Erik

yosclimber

<< <i>Ya know, if I'm a dealer and everybody starts scanning my inventory with their smartphones, I'm gonna get an attitude. >>


Such an app could be useful to dealers - to make sure coins don't sell for too little (using price history for the particular coin as a reference).

Bar code readers apps are already available. The real work is building the database of price history for the PCGS Cert#.

As for the folks requesting a flat out value, that could be tough if there is not much recent price history for the Cert#.
There could be a simple min/max/median for coins of the same grade, as a reference point.
But it would still require some assumptions about how to "trend" past observed prices to the present, if you want a price for the present day.

TwoSides2aCoin

If I could design apps, there's not one thing to do with numismatics that would be useful to me. Rest assured. I would be making apps that would …. Nevermind.

Where does a guy learn to make apps ?

bronco2078

I think I'd design an app that blows up whatever piece of I-trash or A-trash its installed on.

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>I think I'd design an app that blows up whatever piece of I-trash or A-trash its installed on. >>


You make this a better place, for me anyway .

mercurydimeguy

Take a picture, it tells you the approximate grade (irrelevant of what the slab says). Great as an on the quick guide for all collectors and dealers.

It would connect to a back-end server housing a repository of high quality photos with correlating grades.

That's the basic idea to start, you can build on top of that later.

Baley

I'd like an app that allows me to take a picture of each side of the coin, and the app crops the circle coin images, and pastes them side by side in a right sized template

StrikeOutXXX

<< <i>Take a picture, it tells you the approximate grade (irrelevant of what the slab says). Great as an on the quick guide for all collectors and dealers.

It would connect to a back-end server housing a repository of high quality photos with correlating grades.

That's the basic idea to start, you can build on top of that later. >>



That would be an awesome app!

To build on top of that - once it identifies a coin (Even if you had to help it for similar coins by choosing the coin manually) link to current greysheet and retail (few choices, a specific magazine, redbook, whatever you use) PCGS price guide, ebay sales, heritage history, etc etc - (Krause for world coins) the whole 9 yards.

I know, somewhat impossible, but if we're dreaming, that would be nice.

StrikeOutXXX

Having accumulated a ton of Mercury dimes (Looking for another 1919 DDO) it would be nice to have an app similar to the bust half attribution guides, something like.

Pick the series
Pick the date
Pick the mint
then have it display a list of all the things to look for. All the doubled dies (There are so many more than just in the CPG), RPMs, IMM, varieties, trails, notes about condition rarities, etc etc. Incorporating pictures would probably make the app too big, but maybe pics of some, with links out to sites that have them?

I don't have them all memorized, and I'm jumping between Variety Vista/coneca, Doubleddies.com, Fcloud's site, etc etc.

That would really help me right now!

keyman64

Some funny responses in here!

MonsterCoinz

<< <i>Scan a PCGS bar code, and have it bring up all the details about the coin from the PCGS site >>





<< <i>How about an app that incorporates PCGS Secure Plus data and authenticates coins with a scan using the phone's camera.
>>



I've already written an app that does this for iPhone. I've actually written 3 coin apps for the iPhone.