There is a charm and authenticity in presenting written tags. It demonstrates that the information was personally researched by the collector - it's not just a cut and paste from a quite likely incorrectly catalogued variety on a
acsearch. It's proof
Meepzorp checked himself. And whilst "ex Kirk
Davis" may not sound interesting, there'll be coins with more unusual citations perhaps as published examples. As for
search, I agree a few descriptive words in the link to the page will
help get you to the coin. But then it's over to Meep. We want to know what Meep made of the coin, and that's the charm of the tags.. This isn't a replacement for
acsearch. This is a demonstration of coin collecting in action. Personally I think its a
bit killjoy to want searchable text in place of the picture. Carried to its extremes we may as well dispense with the coin picture too and substitute a text description. There are more than enough searchable databases out there,
acsearch,
wildwinds,
CNG etc. This is an illustration of a
collection, which is a different idea. I illustrated my own
collection on my website with a similar but different approach - I show all my coins in their
red abafil trays so they can be seen in proper size proportion. Like
Meepzorp though, I've very little text, just bare
Crawford numbers and one word descriptors for each
side. I wish I'd
had tags to photograph.