STEVE MOULDING

OK...I think the wikidot PDFs you're referring to are those indicated as being in 'the library' i.e. my library. There was no volunteer uploading, nor...as I said...was it possible to do so.

There was no charter text specifically calling for pdf uploads by volunteers. The whole site was really to document auctions...what...where...etc, not to provide an upload/download facility. It was really quite limited in scope.

I checked, and like any other image you can simply left-mouse drag-and-drop out of rnumis right into coinpeople, as above. That should work fine. For the right-click-copy & paste folks there's probably a simple flag that needs to be set in zoomplus. It's not intentionally set up like that, at least by me. Will report back.

 

Yep...simple right-click enable flag in zoomplus. Fixed.

Steve, is it possible to make the fake coins in viewer copyable as in OmniCoin.com? It would be a big selling point for using this database and the gallery if people will be able to share these images in forums like this:

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It makes it more useful for me and saves me time. I tried to experiment with the Russian Fakes from the viewer and could not achieve this. Giving examples of fakes in the forum discussions is a lot more visual than just a link. Thank you!

I checked, and like any other image you can simply left-mouse drag-and-drop out of rnumis right into coinpeople, as above. That should work fine. For the right-click-copy & paste folks there's probably a simple flag that needs to be set in zoomplus. It's not intentionally set up like that, at least by me. Will report back.

Thanks gx!

I think it's not too difficult switch the obverse and reverse around -

Right Simply push the Switch Image1 <--> Image2 button. It's that easy.

Also noticed that a 1834 10 kopek is accidently dated 1734 otherwise it's all sweet.

Good catch! I fixed this. It was originally uploaded by Eugene but you and I have the ability, like anybody else logged in, to fix/edit entries.

Thank you for sharing! I'll download it now and see if I can open RAR. I will enter them as the time permits.

 

To see the gallery visit: http://www.rnumis.co...gtyp_rf_gallery

 

Over 100 fakes entered! Anyone can help and add from their collection of fakes?

I second that! Thanks very much for sharing Candidate. I downloaded and opened the RAR no problem and will coordinate with Ex on getting them uploaded to rnumis. And thanks to everyone else who has contributed something.

Per Sigi's excellent suggestion, the ability to upload edge images will be available sometime soon.

As I was going through right clicking to copy the forgery images, the web site changed so now a right click doesn't permit this. I had to use Snag it to get the rest of the images copied and into the database. Together with not being able to download pdfs of JRNS for the past ten years when the technology allowed it, nor auction pdfs which volunteers uploaded to wikidot, I have to ask the queston: "Where's the Wiki?". Or is it a one way street?

 

Ron

(1) For future reference, from pretty much any website and pretty much any browser you can left-mouse and drag-and-drop pretty much any image out of a webpage and onto your desktop (or into any other folder). You shouldn't really need right-click or 'Snag'. Some sites jump through hoops to prevent this drag-and-drop but it's rare. That said, I've enabled right-click. The new Zoomplus had it disabled by default (don't know why). It was a simple fix.

(2) Of course people downloaded many high-quality JRNS pdf issues from the RNS website over the years that I ran it. It's nothing to do with technology. The process first involved something called 'paying' and helped raise two or three thousand dollars of sorely needed funds for the RNS.

(3) What auction pdf uploads at wikidot??? No such thing ever happened at the wikidots I ran, nor was it possible to do so.

Thank you Steve, really good job for a start! Now we have a simple enough tool that can be developed further as the time goes by.

It's basic, but you get the idea.

Steve, can you please add the key words to the page's title? Not for display, but for the search engines to catch (see tags for samples).

I added a description meta tag in the html as recommended by the SEO folks. My understanding is that keyword meta tags are a thing of the past and search engines don't use them, but I could be wrong.

I am going to promote that with other users worldwide and I hope it will start growing quickly. I'll put this link ( http://www.rnumis.co...gtyp_rf_gallery ) in my bookmarks and contribute to the database as time permits.

I sent a PM with details of the new loginIDs you requested for your contacts.

Anybody else need one?

The illustrative coins have been replaced with 'real' fakes . Those of you who requested logins, please feel free to start uploading.

Thanks,

Steve

The dataviewer for the demonstration Russian Fakes database is now live at

http://www.rnumis.co...gtyp_rf_gallery

The coins there so far are for illustration only and I'll replace then soon. To upload or edit entries you will need a login (send me a PM).

To add comments or view the coins, no login is needed.

So, on the back of IT I'm putting in place at rnumis, I've spent a couple of days putting together an uploader + database for Russian Fakes as a basic demonstration. I still need to write the data-viewer (the important part for end users) but that's relatively easy.

You can find the uploader at

http://www.rnumis.co..._research_0.php

(It looks much better in firefox & chrome, though IE will work. Haven't tried Safari or Opera)

It was designed to be simple - 2 images + year + denomination. Optional description/notes. And that's it. Click upload (assuming you're logged in) and the coin gets written to the database and will be immediately viewable by the world. I'll load in some fake-images that I have to get it started and will report back when the viewer is ready.

This is not the be-all and end-all, just an illustration of what's possible.

He says it in his first post.

Much better pictures! All perfectly nice, perfectly normal coins.

Steve

Hello Toby. The photos are very small, but the coins look fine as far as I can tell. The weights of Catherine 5Ks can very widely and there are design differences, though numerals do follow a fairly standard style. If they were rarer coins, I'd ask for larger pictures, but these I'm sure are just fine.

A couple of quick notes:

A new issue of JRNS is in preparation, I'm told. I, for one, submitted an article. We'll see what transpires. RNS may yet breathe again.

The website russiannumismaticsociety.org is indeed unavailable at this time. The web-hosting contract expired last year so it just died. I've paid for registration/hosting out my own pocket since 2001....a small contribution, I know. Anyway, nobody seems to have noticed except Ron (this all happened before talk of a new JRNS issue).

That said...the domain name is still registered to me through 2014 and it would be very easy to re-host it should the need arise.

I applaud Ron's enthusiasm and motives, we just differ on implementation. If an RNS core group can agree on the goals & technology, we could move forward.

That's OK Bob; I did the port to PDO a week ago (went very smoothly) and had already turned off the default emulation behavior so no worries there. It's working fine. Apologies for for boring everybody and I promise I'll say nothing more about it

Thanks Bob! That solves that long-standing mystery. I nver knew. I may well have some 'Girard' coins somewhere in my trays,,,will have to go back and check. I might have bid higher in those sales if I knew they were from RWJ. Oh well.

So was 'Girard' Bob Julian??

Hi everyone. The rnumis website has had it's first real upgrade (sorting + login/email registration). There's also the ability to see material from other (beta) sellers but that part is still in the early stages.

In addition, more material has been added. For those needing one of the standard references, there are a small number listed under Numismatic Books - here

If anybody notices any problems/bugs please let me know.

Steve

Not sure if you're asking if there are other denominations in gxseries' set, but the answer to the broader question is yes:

http://colnect.com/e..._Tuva/year/1934

I also came across one of these...back around 2001. Still in my boxes somewhere!

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...be extremely careful about taking steps to prevent hacking, especially guarding against what is called "SQL injection".

Thanks Bob...I've been putting off the migration to PDO for a while...time to just do it

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I did discuss something along these lines with Ron about 6 months ago, but it was felt that it would be too much work and time to port his existing framework (of which I've only scratched the surface and into which he's put a huge amount of time and effort) over to something more web-based / user friendly.

Personally, I don't think his framework is going to fly *at all* (though I think others should make their own minds up) and I think ultimately the investment of time to port it would be worth it *if* there was demand, but I don't really hear that either from the community.

I would like to encourage the creation of an easily accessible resource of some type though (not particular about what it is)--preferably something that

can be called up on a mobile device.

This is, of course, easily done (though care has to be taken in the design). My new rnumis website - and other numismatic data resources I've built and use heavily but haven't made public - was built with a mysql database underneath and displays beautifully on my smartphone. It's even better on an ipad

I have other 'non-public' webpages for reading-from and writing-to the databases when I'm on a train or in bed. It all works wonderfully.

Nothing to download. Nothing to install. Nothing to fight. It just works.

There again...I'm told my opinion has been colored by my bias for these kinds of solutions. I guess I can live with that