On 1st March 2016, we hit the 72,000 coin mark on
wildwinds !
When I took over
wildwinds in May 2009, there were 54, 929 coins
including about 2,500 really grotty coins which I have since deleted or
replaced. So the actual number of
additions is probably around 20,000
coins since May 2009.
As an example of how
Wildwinds has grown:
In May 2009 there were less than 6 coins on the Thyateira,
Lydia page - there
are now 301.
Over 50 Greek city pages have been added which were not previously represented
and the number of coin images contributed by you has helped a lot, so thankyou
to everyone.
There are
still a lot of grotty coins under the old /sear/ numbers. I am working
through these as time permits and deleting all the old /sear/ entries in that section
as they have been superceded by the new volumes anyway. But as those numbers
(currently 647 coins in the old
Sear directory) decrease, others will increase.
And I nearly forgot to add that all these coins are added by hand, the text and
entried written by hand in HTML and the images resized by hand. So I don't use one of
the "vacuum" programs to add coins to an SQL database (I wish...)
Well, that's my own trumpet blown