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December 15th,
2011: A new program update is available
Wild Man software is pleased to
announce the release of the latest Exact Change program update!
 The pull-out display on the
right side of the coins page shows thumbnail images of the coin that is
currently selected. In this update we've added special functionality
for the State Quarters, America The Beautiful quarters, Presidential
dollars, 5 ounce quarters, and the new First Day Cover series for State
Quarters and Presidential Dollars.
If you add a coin to your collection but you
don't attach any images to it, Exact Change will now display the stock
images of that coin type. For example, if you add a New Jersey quarter
but you don't add an image of your own coin, Exact Change will show the
stock image when you select that coin. This provides easy access to
the image library and makes it easy to see the coin design without having to
scan every coin you add.
We'd like to thank David C. Stevens for
providing a large number of images of First Day Covers (FDCs), this allowed
us to add these series to the Exact Change database.
The update adds paper money of Germany,
Bermuda, Portugal and Congo. The database for Congo covers everything
from the Congo Free State (1885-1908) through the current issues. For
a quarter century, the country's name was changed to
Zaire before being changed back. We'd already covered Zaire so we've
done away with that and folded it into the Congo to provide a contiguous
coverage of issues from that country. Burundi
paper money was also folded into this database. The result is that the
paper money is structured in the database exactly like the coinage of that
country.
The first Spouse series has been expanded so
that each design is represented by a separate series. The image
library now includes images of each of these coin types. After
downloading the update, click on "Check for image updates" to download these
new images.
There are now over 28,500 images in the Exact
Change image library. If you have a coin type or paper money type that
has not yet been imaged, we'd like to hear from you.
October 16th,
2011: A new program update is available
Wild Man software is pleased to
announce the release of the latest Exact Change program update!
We'd like to thank Wayne Corbin of
Australia who contributed images of a wide range of Australian coins
and currency, allowing us to greatly expand Exact Change's coverage of
Australia. Again we are grateful to Klaas van Sloten of the
Netherlands Antilles who consistently sends images of coins from throughout
the Caribbean and South America. Thanks also to Seth Rossman
who uploaded numerous images with the Exact Change upload manager. If
you have any coins or paper money, from any country, which has not been
imaged in Exact Change, please consider taking a few minutes to send us an
image and we'll add it to the Exact Change database.
 The
Update includes great improvements to Exact Change's coverage of U.S. paper
money. The database is now more detailed with signatory names, catalog
numbers and pricing information. We've added additional design types
and revisited each type to assure that all star notes are included in the
database for every applicable type.
Exact Change now includes the coinage of Antigua as well as
paper money from Taiwan, Algeria, Japan, Jordan, Costa Rica, Netherlands,
South Korea, Columbia and Romania. The image library contains an
additional 1500 images.
With high precious metal prices, a lot of coins have ended
up in the melting pot. One problem with this is that refiners
generally pay different prices, relative to the spot price, depending on the
overall purity of the entire lot. If you're melting U.S. coinage, it's
simple to calculate that the overall purity is 90%. But with a mixture
of world coinage it can be much more complicated. Theoretically, it would be
possible to loose money by adding 10% pure coins to a batch; it's more
silver but the overall purity could drop below the threshold.
Therefore, the Stats tab now displays purity information for all coins
within the selected series.
The price list now highlights the selected row and column,
this makes it easier to enter price date. This change proved to be
very helpful as we entered pricing data for U.S. currency.
The update process will now back up all the price list files
before checking for program updates by compressing them into a standard ZIP
file which it stores in the My Documents directory.
When you save your collection file, Exact Change will now
save an additional copy of the file in the My Documents\Exact Change
directory. This works better than the old location (Program
files\Exact Change) because, under some Windows configurations, Windows
would not allow saving of the backup file within the Program Files
directory.
We corrected a situation in which Exact Change would
sometimes indicate that a collection file had been modified when no changes
had yet been made. We also corrected a situation in which some
user-defined grades may not show up properly on the grid on the coins page.
When adding a coin to your collection, Exact Change used to
default to the first year, mint and variety on the price list and you would
then select the correct date for the coin you're adding. The program
now defaults to a blank year, mint and variety as this was causing some
confusion.
June 14th,
2011: Wild Man Software is working to extend Exact Change's coverage
of world paper money
At Wild Man software, we're constantly working to
extend Exact Change's database of coins and notes from around the globe.
If you happen to have a note that we haven't imaged, we'd like to hear from
you! Whether it's a valuable old note or a modern note that you
happened to bring back from vacation, we're looking for images of notes from
every country in the world. Just drop it in your scanner, scan both
sides at 1200 dpi, and email the images to
WildMan@ExactChange.Info.
You don't have to worry about the background, we'll process the image if
needed.
June 10th,
2011: A new program update is available
Wild Man software is pleased to
announce the release of the latest Exact Change program update!
  The
update includes well over a thousand new images and new countries including
U.S. Colonial coinage, French Colonies, Italian States, the Central American
Republic, Andaman & Nicobar Islands as well as paper money from Zimbabwe,
Zaire, the Philippines and the Bahamas. It adds many new coin
types for other countries, extending the coverage for several countries by a
century or more. Once you download the update, be sure to use the
Image Download Manager ("Check for image updates" in the Help menu) to
download the new images.
You can now preview images of the selected item on the Coins
page; these are the images attached to the selected coin entry, the images
which also appear on the Images page. On the right side of the table
is a bar (circled in red in this image) which opens and closes the preview
image.
The update includes a new version of the report engine which
is more efficient in creating reports and adds new features for people who
create custom reports. also, the image update manager has been
enhanced with faster polling speed for increased download efficiency.
February 15th, 2011:
A new program update is available
Wild Man software is pleased to
announce the release of the latest Exact Change program update!
We'd like to thank Klaas van Sloten who has again
contributed numerous images of coins and paper money from a variety of
countries. We'd also like to thank Roger Moore who contributed images
of coin from the Hutt River Province (which was just added to the Exact
Change database), Brian Blankenburg who contributed images from numerous
countries and all those who have taken the time to scan coin and paper money
images to assist us in expanding the Exact Change database.
On February 15th, we released a minor update which added a
couple features that had been requested but didn't make it into the February
7th update. This includes a new "Melt values" report and new report
functionality to support this new report (there are new fields available in
the report editor). If you've downloaded the update since February
7th, there's no real impetus to download the minor update.
 Smart image manager
The image download manager now includes a "Suggest" button which will will
indicate how many new images are available for each country and
automatically select for download all those countries that include new
images.
New coin types and images
Many new coin types have been added to the database and Exact Change now
includes more that 25,000 images!
5 Ounce bullion quarter support
Exact Change now includes the new five ounce America The Beautiful quarters.
The menu option which is used to select the America The Beautiful quarter
image also selects the design to be displayed for the five ounce coin.
Persistent window size and
position
In response to user requests, the main Exact Change window will
now retain its size and position when the program is closed and reopened.
Report preview enhancements
Changes have been made to the report preview process. This resolves an
issue that occurred when data was exported to a CSV file without first being
previewed on screen.
Online registration
Exact Change now includes a registration feature which can automatically
register the program online.
October 25th, 2010:
A new program update is available
Wild Man software is pleased to
announce the release of the latest Exact Change program update!
New image download manager
Exact Change now includes a download manager which makes it easy to get all
the new coin any paper money images as they're added to the database.
Just select the countries you'd like to update and Exact Change will
download and install them. You can even keep working while the
downloads are taking place; just minimize the download manager and it will
take care of all the image updating in the background while you enter coins
or explore your collection.
The update adds to the database paper money from Spain,
Nicaragua, Nepal, Japanese puppet states of WWII, India, Hungary, Trinidad,
Guinea-Bissau, Zambia, Iran, Viet Nam, North Korea, Laos, Venezuela and
Burundi. With the new image download manager, you can easy get the
images paper money from these countries. Please remember that if you happen
to have a note in your collection that we've not yet imaged, we'd really
like to hear from you. With you're help we can build the most
comprehensive reference of full color images of notes from every country in
the world.
 PCGS CoinFacts™
integration
There is a new type of user-defined field for Exact Change users who also
use PCGS CoinFacts™. When you add this
type of user defined field to your collection file, each coin entry will
have a space where you can enter the coin number from the PCGS slab.
Beside that space is a button that will automatically take you to the PCGS
CoinFacts™ web site, directly to the year, mint, and variety in your slab.
To utilize this feature you'll need a subscription to PCGS CoinFacts™
October
10th, 2010: Constitutional changes dissolve
the Government of the Netherlands Antilles
Klaas van Sloten, an Exact
Change user and resident of the Netherlands Antilles, sent us this
report:
Our
country Netherlands Antilles was dissolved at 12 last midnight. The end
of the Netherlands Antilles came after nearly 56 years. The “statuut”
was signed by Queen Juliana on the 15 of December 1954 and stopped on
10-10-10.
The
island territory of Curacao became country Curacao.
The
island territory of Sint Maarten became country Sint Maarten
Both
islands will stay like Aruba within the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
which now consists of 4 countries; The Netherlands, Curacao, Aruba and
Sint Maarten (like a common wealth)
The
currency for Curacao and Sint Maarten will for the first year the
Netherlands Antilles Guilder, but should change into the Dutch Caribbean
Guilder. However a lot of voices want to have the US Dollar as the
official currency, like the British Virgin Islands.
The
island territories of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba will become a
special territory of the Netherlands and will have the US Dollar as
official currency.
There is a new support forum available for
Exact Change users
The new forum provides an easy way to get technical support for Exact
Change, discuss features you'd like to see in Exact Change, or converse
about any subject related to coin or paper money collecting! The forum
is available in the menu at left, or just
click here
to view the forum.
September
13th, 2010:
A new program update is available
Wild Man software is pleased to
announce the release of the latest Exact Change program update!
The new release is now shipped on a two disk DVD set; Exact Change actually
has more picture data than a feature length Hollywood film!
As always, the program update is available at no charge to registered Exact
Change users. Just click on "Check for updates" in the program's "Help"
menu and Exact Change will automatically download and install the new version.
Easily keep up to date with Exact Change's growing
image library
We're constantly adding new images to the the Exact Change image
library; there are now nearly 25,000 images! Along with program and
price list updates, the "Check for updates" feature now enables you to
select a country and then the update manager will automatically download all
the images for that country.
 World
paper money
With the new release we're adding paper money from more than 60 countries to
the Exact change database. Our goal is to catalog with high resolution
color images every note from around the globe. It's a monumental task
and one that's never been done before so if you happen to have a coin or note in your
collection that has not been imaged in Exact Change, we encourage
you to take a moment to scan the coin and send us an image; the new
upload manager makes it quick and easy to send in an image.
If it's a coin that's not currently listed in the Exact
Change database,
we'll add it! Exact Change users all over the world may
find notes in their wallet that are yet to be imaged; we're looking
for images of notes from any country and the images we receive
dictate what countries receive priority. So please take a
moment to send any images you can; it's quick and easy, and it's fun
to see your own collection items depicted in Exact Change.
New graphic
processor
Exact Change includes a new graphic engine which eliminates
Moiré
patterns which appear in paper money images. Moiré patterns are those
odd lines that often appear when an image with many parallel lines is
displayed. With the new engine, these patterns are eliminated and, as
a result, we're able to provide images that are significantly sharper and
clearer.
New coins types.
Hundreds of new coin types have been added from around the world and Exact
Change's coverage of several countries has been extended back in time.
For example, coverage of Argentine coinage begins a half century earlier.
Several types such as Australian sovereigns and numerous British types have
been divided into sub groups where we had previously combined coins with
different KM numbers.
Intelligent report preview
The report preview no longer begins generating the selected report when you
click on the "Reports" tab. Instead, the report description is
displayed and you have the option of selecting a different report before
clicking on "Preview". Some users reported a sluggishness when the
report preview was processing a report so this change eliminates that issue.
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The Exact Change web
site now includes an upload manager
Exact Change represents a goal that goes far beyond anything that
any other coin collecting software has ever contemplated; to
catalog, with images, coins, not from a few select countries, but
from all over the world. It's an ongoing task; we've added an
additional 500 images in the short time since the latest update was
released on June 28th. We're in the process of imaging paper money as
well, to provide paper money collectors with that same
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If you happen to have a coin or note in your
collection that has not been imaged in Exact Change, we encourage
you to take a moment to scan the coin and send us an image; the new
upload manager makes it quick and easy to send in an image.
If it's a coin that's not currently listed in the standard database,
we'll add it! Exact Change users all over the world may
find notes in their wallet that are yet to be imaged; we're looking
for images of notes from any country and the images we receive
dictate what countries receive priority. So please take a
moment to send any images you can; it's quick and easy, and it's fun
to see your own collection items depicted in Exact Change.
If you'd like access to the upload manager, just
email Wild Man Software.
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