The date on the Ceylon 5 cent piece was frozen at 1945 though the coin was
minted through 1962. Of course after 1947 the Emperor of India phrase no
longer applied. After 1952, neither did George VI.
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This information is based on the web pages of each of the listed products and
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| Product name and publisher |
Exact Change |
Coin Catalog Pro DB-Pros, Inc. |
Coin Collectors assistant Plus |
Coin Collector Professional |
WorldCoins ArteCode Software |
Coin Elite Trove Software |
CoinManage |
Coin Organizer Deluxe |
NumisExpert Resource International Publishing Inc. |
EzCoin |
Coin Collector v3.0 Duck Software |
Visual PackRat Plus 2.0 Spectrum Software |
Coin Tracker CyberNiche Software |
CoinSpider CoinSpyder Inc. |
Numismatist's Notebook Sandy Knoll Software |
Pro-Coin MWP Software |
The Currency Vault BC3 Software |
Coin Keeper Deluxe HobbySoft |
Product name and publisher |
| World coin database |
100,000 types from 260 countries included |
None |
5,000
types from 40 countries (Additional $34.95) Euro coin database is an additional $29.95 |
None | None | Canada and Mexico sold separately ($30 each) | 750 types from 12 countries included | None | None | 5325 US types and 1850 Canadian types sold separately ($44.99 each) | None | None | None | None | None | U.S. and Canada | Canada | Canada and U.S. Commemoratives sold separately ($24.99 each) | World coin database |
| Included images | More than 100,000 images | None | U.S. coinage only | None | 64 images | U.S. coinage only | 459 images | None | None | 1330 US images and 1450 Canadian images (when both products are purchased) | None | None | None | None | None | U.S. and Canada | None | U.S. coinage (U.S. Commemoratives and Canadian sold separately) | Included images |
| Full screen images | Yes | No | No | No images included | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No images included | No | No | No | No | No | No. (Images are black & white scans from ANA guide) | Full screen images |
| Includes U.S. paper money | Yes | No | Additional purchase required | No | No | No | Additional purchase required | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Includes U.S. paper money |
| Includes world paper money | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Includes world paper money |
| Includes KM catalog numbers | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Includes KM catalog numbers |
| Includes shapes and dimensions in database | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Includes diameters for U.S. coinage | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Includes shapes and dimensions in database |
| Includes precious metal contents | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Includes precious metal contents |
| Diskless searches & queries | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Diskless searches & queries |
| User definable fields | Unlimited number of user definable fields. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No, but some fields can be renamed for use other than the intended use. | No | 16 undefined fields for stings, numbers and date/time | No, but some fields can be renamed for use other than the intended use. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | User definable fields |
| Custom report editor | Yes | No | Yes | No | No (hard-coded with 6 reports) | Yes | Yes | No, but if you write HTML code, the reports can be modified. | No | No, but you can define which columns will be included in a printed list | No, but you can define which columns will be included in a printed list | No | No, but you can define which columns will be included in a printed list | No (hard-coded with 5 reports) | No | Yes | No (hard-coded with 5 reports) | No | Custom report editor |
| Multilingual | 8 Languages | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Multilingual |
| Graphs | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Graphs | |
| Printed Manual | Yes | No | No "User manual" is a Windows help file |
No | No | No | Included with CD but not when purchased as a download | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Printed Manual | ||
| User-definable Bullion values calculator | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Bullion calculator is hard-coded to a predefined list of 209 coin types. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | User-definable Bullion values calculator |
| Foreign date converters |
Hebrew, Roman, Arab, Burmese, Thai, Bengali, Nepalese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Ethiopian |
None |
None |
None | None | None | None | None | No | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | Foreign date converters |
| Instant value updates | Yes | No | When grade is changed | No | No | No | No | No | When a coin's date is changed, the mint mark, denomination, grade and variety must be re-entered. When this is done, the value automatically updates. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Instant value updates |
| Built in mintage database |
Yes Including 70,000 types from 240 countries |
No | No | No | No | Yes U.S. coins only |
Yes Including 750 types from 12 countries |
No | Yes U.S. coins only |
No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Built in mintage database |
| Built in scanner support | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Built in scanner support | |
| Windows & Macintosh compatibility | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Windows & Macintosh compatibility |
| Minimum OS |
Windows: Windows 7 Macintosh: Mac OS X |
Windows XP | Windows ‘95 | Windows ‘95 | Windows ‘98 (Microsoft .NET framework must be installed) | Windows ‘95 | Windows ‘98 | Windows ‘95 | Windows ‘98 | Windows ‘95 | Windows ‘95 | Windows ‘95 | Windows ‘95 | Windows XP | Windows ‘95 | Windows '98 | Windows ‘98SE | Windows ‘95 | Minimum OS |
| Support | Free live support | Free live support | Call-back available | Email address provided | Email address provided | Free live support | Free live support | Free standard support or $100 per year for priority support | Free live support | Online support only | Online support only | Free live support | Email address provided | Email address provided | No longer available | Email support | Free live support | Support | |
| Program Upgrade cost | Free live updates | No upgrades listed | $49.95 | No upgrades listed | "Free minor updates" Price for other updates has not been published. | $25-$49 depending on current version | $19.95 electronic delivery or $26.95 for CD | Product must be repurchased | Free manual updates | No upgrades listed | Product must be repurchased | Product must be repurchased | No upgrades listed | Product must be repurchased | Free live update | Not specified |
US: $19.95 Canada: $19.95 Commemoratives: $19.95 |
Program Upgrade cost | |
| Data import | Free | Not available | $29.95 plus 10¢ per item | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Data import |
| Price | $79.95 | $58.95 | $94.95 to $324.90 depending on options purchased | $19.99 | $22.95 | $59 without values or $79 with values Canada and Mexico are an additional $30 each | $49 for download, $59 for CD | $75 (Plus additional $8 for CD) | $149.99 |
$54.99
for U.S. |
$14.95 (Plus additional $3 for floppy disk) | $25.95 for download, $29.95 for CD | $24.95 | $99 | $4.95 | No longer available for purchase | $79CAN | $89.95 (U.S Commemoratives and Canada are an additional $24.95 each) | Price |
The following explanations pertain to items in the above grid that may require further definition.
| Full Screen images Exact Change includes high resolution images that accurately depict each coin's detail. The advantage is clear when the image is viewed full screen. For example, the following image is the detail of the eagle's head from the obverse of the flying eagle cent on the Exact Change DVD...
When the corresponding image from various other coin programs is enlarged to the same size, the detail is grainy because the image is being stretched larger than the original image size... |
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World coin database  Most programs have some mechanism for adding coins from other countries by entering the name of the country, the denomination, and so forth. Some of the programs above include information about coins from a select number of countries so that when you enter a coin, you can select the denomination and type from a list. Only Exact Change lets you take a coin like the one at left and enter it without defining a new country or denomination. Exact Change already knows that this 2 Mark coin from the German State of Bremen was minted only in 1904 and has a mintage of 100,000 circulation coins and 200 proofs. Only Exact Change can provide you with an image of the coin and tell you that this coin is listed as KM#250 in the Krause catalog and contains .3215 ounces of silver. |
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Included images At this time there are 243 different U.S. coin types, including commemoratives. Therefore, all U.S. coin types can be represented with, at most, 486 images. At most, because some coins like the Barber types share a common obverse design that differs only in size. The reasonably viable programs listed above include these 486 images and some include a splattering of other countries. Only Exact Change has taken on the enormous objective of imaging coins from around the world. In the course of six years we've gone through five scanners and we continue to add images to Exact Change on an on-going basis. |
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Includes KM catalog numbers This information is based on licenses granted by F+W Media and does not reflect data included in any program in violation of the publisher's copyright. |
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Diskless searches & queries Most coin programs utilize some type of generic database engine such as Borland's BDE or Microsoft's Excel engine. When the program needs information about a coin or a price list entry, it must access the database engine which pulls the information from your hard drive. One problem with this approach is that it can be very slow. Exact Change works more like a word processor in that all of your information is loaded into memory at one time and can be easily manipulated. For example, if you change a value in a price list, Exact Change will instantly revalue all coins of that type and grade. It will immediately update all aspects of your collection so that, for example, the average price of all coins in your collection will reflect that some coins have a new value. A program that utilizes a generic database engine would have to churn for some time to calculate the effect of a price list change on the average value of all the coins in your collection. Another advantage to the diskless search is that your collection information is stored in a single file which is created when you save your collection. Therefore, you're not plagued with database corruption because the save process is not dependant on the integrity of an existing database file. To back-up your data, you need only select your backup drive when saving your collection. |
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Instant value updates Instant value updates refers to the program's ability to instantly reflect a change in a coin's value when any information is changed. For example, if you change a value in a price list, Exact Change will instantly revalue all coins of that type and grade. It will immediately update all aspects of your collection so that, for example, the average price of all coins in your collection will reflect that some coins have a new value. A program that utilizes a generic database engine would have to churn for some time to calculate the effect of a price list change on the average value of all the coins in your collection. |
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Built in mintage database When you add a coin to your collection, Exact Change augments the information you've added with information included in the program. When you enter a coin, Exact change determines the mintage for that coin based on the denomination, year and mint you designate. This is true whether your coin is a U.S. coin or an obscure foreign coin. This may seem like an obvious thing, but most of the programs listed above actually require you to enter the mintage figure every time you add a coin to your collection. |
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Minimum OS The minimum Operating System is the oldest version of Microsoft Windows for which each program is intended. Exact Change utilizes the latest technology and is intended for Windows 7 or later. |
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Some features that are not really features There are a number of "Features" listed on the web sites for other coin programs that seem so basic that we didn't include them in the list above, though some programs didn't provide them: ☼ Resizable to full screen ☼ Print preview ☼ Track any number of collections ☼ Add a coin that's not in the database ☼ Any complement given more than a decade ago |
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