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Coin Collecting Software for MAC

Is anyone aware of software for the Mac that does not need to run in Parallels that will catalogue a coin collection. There seem to be many for the PC but I have not been able to locate one for the MAC. Help!

MacPro 8 core, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 12gb ram, 6 tb hard drives

Posted on Feb 22, 2011 2:36 PM

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Feb 23, 2011 2:41 AM in response to happydutchman

Hi happydutchman,

Your question intrigued me, partly because I have several old coins (both UK and various International denominations), which I have accumulated over some decades, and, just out of interest, I googled "Coin Collecting Software for Mac".

In 0.10 seconds Google produced a list of about 275,000 results, including several which stated either that they were "for Mac" or "Mac compatible".

However, I visited several of the sites which were listed on the first page, and not one of their coin collecting applications fitted the criteria of my search.

So much for the validity and accuracy of Google searches!

This is a bone of contention for me when I am researching something on the internet, because Google listings are more often than not riddled with results which bear no relation to either the product or subject I searched for, and I end up wasting a considerable amount of my time if I am not careful.

However, I had another thought.

Do you use, or have you considered using Bento by FileMaker?

I do, and I have downloaded some of their free templates in the past.

So I visited the FileMaker website, and there is a "The Coin Collector" template:
http://solutions.filemaker.com/database-templates/detail.jsp?serial=2550103

Would this be of any use to you?

Regards,

Bill

Feb 23, 2011 10:25 AM in response to Biltan-Wales

I just purchased Bento and downloaded the template for coin collecting. There seems to be a robust arena of developers for this product. While this will meet my needs for the moment, it is not as full featured as the PC versions which includes features such as images of each coin as well as its recent value. For now this will be fine, but eventually, I'm hoping that someone will port one of the full featured programs to the MAC side. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Coin Collecting Software for MAC

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