!NEW! Coin year variants

[tcawe]

We're very happy to announce the availability of a long-awaited feature in the coins section: coin year variants.

You can see an example coin with hundreds of variants: 1 Pfennig (A, D, F, G, J)

This feature now allows editors to add this information to our catalogs and to all Colnectors to add each coin variant separately into their lists. So now you can look at a specific coin and say you have 2VF coins of year 1968 for swap and wish to get 1UNC coin of year 1970 variant, for example.

The technical side of this feature is mostly ready. We're still missing some parts that we plan to complete soon such as: auto-matching and best-matches based on the exact variants. We'll soon change the "Mint" field into "Mints", allowing editors to specify that more than one mint have been minting this coin.

The editorial side (adding the variant information to the catalog) has only just begun. Please follow the recent news of this topic here:

Coins by Year - Mint Marks - Community Guidelines

Coins by Year - Mint Mark: Work Tracking Update

I would like to thank all members who kept insisting on the implementation of this feature and especially to quarteris for his part in implementing it and hbofill12 for his part in designing the requirement it and overlooking the editorial project.

[nzexchange]

I think this is an excellent move forward for Colnect and I hope this feature can be used in other catagories too. I think it would fit well in Phonecards especially for all the different codes for Landys & Gyr optical cards.

[tcawe]

I was waiting for the first response regarding other categories Yes, this feature we'll call "Minor variants" will later be made available in other categories as well. This will not come instead of the current variants feature supporting a "variant group" but be in addition to it. I estimate the next category to get it will be banknotes as there it'll also be about years but once it's entrenched, coordinators are welcome to suggest which minor variants should be supported in their category and design it in details. With stamps it might even take over the "Special variants" feature. But let's give it a bit of time and then see how we move forward.

[Houseofham]

Could you right-align the mintage column?

Also, a few more things to think about:

• a way to specify struck-over years, such as 1797/6
• a better way to list ND (no date) coins - many commemoratives have hyphenated dates, like 1812-1912, rather than just 1912
• perhaps, a better way to show mintage as "Include above" than just putting it in notes
• a tool for editors to split records. For example, km92 into km92.1 and km92.2
• if year variants are listed, calculated total mintage as the sum of variant mintages

[Aprel]

Монеты по двора и годам - это просто супер идея !!!!

Для многих это очень важно !!!

Огромное спасибо !!!!

[bibag]

Congratulation for the fixture !

I like to suggest to add also the remark field possibility like in the normal way. This will allow to add extra information than just the code condition.

It's look like this new catalog information is available for personal use. How this information can be visible for others

Best regards,

Gabi.

[tcawe]

Could you right-align the mintage column?

Also, a few more things to think about:

a way to specify struck-over years, such as 1797/6

a better way to list ND (no date) coins - many commemoratives have hyphenated dates, like 1812-1912, rather than just 1912

perhaps, a better way to show mintage as "Include above" than just putting it in notes

a tool for editors to split records. For example, km92 into km92.1 and km92.2

if year variants are listed, calculated total mintage as the sum of variant mintages

I've asked hbofill12 to respond here.

I like to suggest to add also the remark field possibility like in the normal way. This will allow to add extra information than just the code condition.

I thought about it and decided against it unless many members require it. You have notes available in the general item field. Please provide a scenario in which it's important to provide separate notes for each variant.

It's look like this new catalog information is available for personal use. How this information can be visible for others

This will be implemented in the near future.

[kljaja]

It is really nice to see this feature being implemented. I am sure that this feature will help many collectors in managing their collections, and hope that all of those who left Colnect only because it not existing will return here. And of course many thanks to all of those who worked/will work on it.

[tanasiz]

A really good new feature, as I 'm really interested in different years of the same coin, espesially my country's old drachmas.But, what about diferrent mints of Germany's commemoratives 2 euro?For example,WCC:km276, which is 2009 Saarland's 2 euro. The letters in the german side of the coin are different between A, D, F, G, J mints, making them,in my opinion, not just variants, but almost different coins.That's another matter to clarify, please.

[giladzuc]

Every difference in a coin from another coin is important to me.

[hbofill12]

A really good new feature, as I 'm really interested in different years of the same coin, espesially my country's old drachmas.But, what about diferrent mints of Germany's commemoratives 2 euro?For example,WCC:km276, which is 2009 Saarland's 2 euro. The letters in the german side of the coin are different between A, D, F, G, J mints, making them,in my opinion, not just variants, but almost different coins.That's another matter to clarify, please.

Hi, for now, this will be tarted as variant.

When we finish with the editing we will analyze the particularly cases.

Thanks,

Hernán.-

[quarteris]

New changes!

• When viewing your lists you will see the year variants which you have in your inventory next to each coin
• When viewing someone's list you will also see a list of their year variants next to each coin
• Variants inventory is now connected with "normal" inventory - when adding a variant to one of your lists, whole item is added too and when deleting whole item from the list, all variants are deleted too.
• Mintage is now counted automatically based on the sum of mintages of all variants
• Coin issue date and last issue date can be edited by all editors - as long as all variants are inside of those dates
• Bugfixes

[cerbpuppy]

New changes!

• Variants inventory is now connected with "normal" inventory - when adding a variant to one of your lists, whole item is added too and when deleting whole item from the list, all variants are deleted too.
• Mintage is now counted automatically based on the sum of mintages of all variants

This needs futher explanation. Collector needs to mark both the "old" check box as well as "new" variant check box, since "My lists" first checks "old" check box. Help pages will probably need some modification explaining this.

[tcawe]

Variants inventory is now connected with "normal" inventory - when adding a variant to one of your lists, whole item is added too and when deleting whole item from the list, all variants are deleted too.

Could add a line in the help about it later on but it's actually what one would expect. The "general" coin must be marked for any of its variants to be marked on a specific list BUT the collector doesn't have to do it manually every time. That's why if you mark a variant and the general coin isn't marked, the marking would be added automatically. That's also why if you remove the mark for the general coin after variants were marked, you'd be warned about it removing all the variants marked.

Mintage is now counted automatically based on the sum of mintages of all variants

This is more relevant to editors and again, just makes common sense. The mintage of the "general" coin is the sum of the mintages of all its variants.