A Darkside alternative to Registry Sets...

MrEureka · July 4, 2004 2:02AM

Instead of competing with each other to build individually owned Registry Sets, some French collectors are pooling their resources to post the "Ideal Collection" of French coin images. The competition is in trying to get coins worthy of inclusion. I like this approach a lot. The Lightsiders will never go for this concept, but maybe somebody here would like to try it for another country.

To see how it works, check out their site.

Clankeye · July 4, 2004 2:42AM

Oh that is very cool.

Just took a nice stroll through the 2 Francs.

It would be a great project to put together a world coin type set site (or something like that) that was a constant work in progress of the forums. Between the coins here and the photography skills--I think it would be a big hit.

Clankeye

farthing · July 4, 2004 3:00AM

I just strolled through the Daniel Dupuis designed 10 Centimes

tgilliams · July 4, 2004 3:07AM

that's super; a Fantacy Set of only the best. However, these collectors would not agree. they are into their own sets. i'd be glad to donate some 70's for this set.

cladking · July 4, 2004 4:52AM

Wow!!! Way cool.

They even have the moderns and in grades I wouldn't have guessed existed even in the PL sets.

cosmicdebris · July 4, 2004 7:13AM

Cool Stuff

Philip · July 4, 2004 3:48PM

Great idea

I wonder what German collectors have to say about this approach

izzy452 · July 4, 2004 10:16PM

Very nice and a great idea.

coinkat · July 5, 2004 10:53AM

Interesting concept and perhaps there is a model here that is worth using... for several countries.

Syracusian · July 6, 2004 5:25AM

Excellent! I see they use US grades ?

Sorry, the link redirects to the main page. Check out the 100frs and in particular the 1866A.

Askari · July 16, 2004 10:08AM

A superb idea!!

wybrit · July 16, 2004 1:49PM

I have a similar idea in the works. I will be photographing (reimaging) all of my collection over time. I will keep the photographs and bleed off some of the coins over time so I don't have a mammoth task later when I get to the point I don't have time or desire to sell. It took bloomin' well a full day to list 56 items on ebay last week (OK, so I'm not that efficient).

It's also getting to the point where a date collection 1838-1970 is straining the resources...

Compa · July 16, 2004 4:01PM

OK ... everyone seems to agree, it's a good idea.

Now how do we implement it?

Well, I have kicked it off. I just registered a domain "coinshow.org" (it is going to be showing coins isn't it?) and set up hosting with a good company. I'm good on the technical side of this stuff but I'm hopeless as far as artistic ability in creating a website design. I'm also not much of a web programmer. I don't think we need anything fancy ... an attractive design, and an easy to use navigation system. Once that is all down, it's just a matter of duplicating the design with various photos.

We do need to standardize on size of photos and such. Decide what sort of credits to give ... or to keep the whole thing anonymous. And I'm sure there will be many more things.

BTW ... the hosting also comes with 300 POP mailboxes. They will be available to anyone that is contributing to the project.

Let's talk about it!

Askari · July 17, 2004 1:27PM

Are you sure you know what you're getting into, Jim? It can be a rather tremendous project!! Considering what's most popular here, though, I would recommend starting out with Canadian and UK coinage. I'd also like to suggest you take a gander at Ron Wise's world currency website. He's been doing a major hosting of pics for several years and I'm sure would be willing to share his lessons learned. No sense traveling over the same ruts!

A Darkside alternative to Registry Sets...

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