Some of my coins

[robbiegal]

Hey robbiegal, I hear ya.

Hey Robster, I don't have a wife!

P.S. the photobucket link is broke.

that's cool
I don't have a wife either ha ha!
my hubby uses a dymo thingee on his good coins
I just use a silver texta on my eagle mounts
so his eagle mounts look nice and neat
and mine look like a pre-schoolers!!

[Fulvio]

Cheers mate, I'm still intrigued. Who owns the data?

That depends on where you store it. You should always retain copyright, but some services (Facebook comes to mind) try to steal the rights for themselves. But even then, there are billions of pics uploaded daily, so its not like anyone's going to steal yours and make a mint flogging T-shirts or anything. Choose your hosting carefully if this is an area of concern.

Remember that QR codes can point anywhere, or contain data directly embedded in them (so they work offline). That "where" can be on your local network, on FB, G+, here, or anywhere at all you wish to park your data. You can even get redirections you can edit at a later date. QRstuff.com has such an editable redirection service I believe, though they may charge a premium for it. The intention is that you can publish a code in a book, magazine or a business card, and update what it does anytime you feel like it, without worrying about the copies already out there. Useful in some circumstances, possibly for coins too.

Oh, and as a late thought, I've been thinking of data organisation behind this whole thing. I'm now leaning towards a web page for each item, since that can contain descriptions, pictures, etc, and be readily updated. Nothing fancy, just a few lines of really minimal HTML will do, easily knocked up with some cut and paste. Since each page needs its own url, it may as well be significant, and it also may as well be a unique identifier. So how's this for a scheme? Taking those two Wavy 2's as an example, I'd use ID's like these:

1966020v123456
1966020v123457

Where 1966 is the year.

020 is the denomination, 001 to 200 for coins, notes and other things could also be handled with the unused values.

v is Variety. e would be Error, f would be Flaw. Normal coins could be graded, say a through d, or any other unused letters.

123456 is a sequence number, which allows a million items. It could be sequential, or assigned type by type. Either approach has benefits and shortcomings. Oh, and for notes you would use the serial number here. You could even use the denomination and type differently, say 05BA for a BA prefix $5. Something like 200905BA123456 which would be a $5 note, BA09 123456. In the case of a $100, you could get sneaky and use 00 as the value, so 199600CP955019, which is this test note I have in my hot little hand right now. (Note that case IS significant in the filename component of a URL, so abc.com/a.html and abc.com/A.html are two different files, whereas abc.com/a.html and ABC.COM/a.html are the same). If used this way, notes and coins are distinguishable by the two capital letters vs the single lowercase, and everything will sort reasonably well in the one database, or perfectly in separate ones.

There could also be a collector identifier on the end, something like initials, or a club membership number, or whatever, but that would only be useful if such a system were widespread and duplication was likely.

Why such a long number you may ask? Well, apart from the likelihood some people would have a million coins, it allows blocks of reserved numbers. So you could have all your cuds in the 100000 range, cracks in the 200000's, and so on. As long as the complete ID is unique, it doesn't matter how you slice it. So then you'd use the ID as a serial printed on the label, and as the URL, as in 1966020v123456.html, which you would put wherever you were going to store your pics and pages, then pass to the URL shortening service to get the link for the QR code.

Have I confused you yet? Its really easier to implement than to explain.

[Fordprefect]

For the rest of us putting a Label on a Holder,
just bung it through your printer,

[r9453]

That's pretty neat, I wondered about that. Would it work on any printer? I suppose if you had an upside down font you could use both sides of the holder Or 2 print runs would do the trick.

[Fordprefect]

That's pretty neat, I wondered about that. Would it work on any printer? I suppose if you had an upside down font you could use both sides of the holder Or 2 print runs would do the trick.

Yes, with proviso to Any Printer.
The card stock of the 2X2 are not ideal for Ink Jets.
Will print fine but don't handle the 2X2;s for a few hours
until the Ink drys.

Use a Mono Laser printer no problem. (No colour either)

And, use on the Self Adhesive 2X2's only, the staple type tend
to be slightly bowed and will drag across print head in Ink Jets,
and tend to fail to feed in laser jets.

[Fulvio]

Use a Mono Laser printer no problem. (No colour either)

Ohhhhhh??

I would have thought the fuser would melt the mylar. I learnt the hard way many many years ago not to put certain things in lasers.

[Fordprefect]

Use a Mono Laser printer no problem. (No colour either)

Ohhhhhh??

I would have thought the fuser would melt the mylar. I learnt the hard way many many years ago not to put certain things in lasers.

Perhaps you may be correct on some laser printers.
Not having tested all laser printers I wouldn't know.
I do know it dosn't on mine.

Will possibly find out when I need to replace my little Brother HL1240.
The toner and drum cost three times as much as a new printer.
And at the current price of a new Little Brother being under $50
it dosn't really bother me too much.

Try it, don't try it the choice is your's and your's alone.

[lacey]

Too late for all my decimals.  they are now in PP's flipflaps and look great . Thank PP.