Creating New Feilds for looking up Coins

Hey all,

Something that I have noticed when ever I try looking up terms or specific features on coins, it shows all the coins that have them whether on the desired side of the coin or not which makes things very hard to find when researching a coin. That is why I am proposing a sub search result where it could have Fields stating “Obverse” and “Reverse” where you could search up tags or specific lettering in them to narrow the results and make it easier for people to find the coins they have. 

Let me know if this is good as I wanted to see if this could make things better in terms of finding items on the website. 

With obverse and reverse on many coins not being defined the same be everyone this feature might be not as useful as you think.
I would suggest to use the ‘Lettering’ field to get rid of a few false positives and for modern coins the "your text here" to lock the order of words and reduce them further.

I like that suggestion. The Numista display for a coin already distinguishes between obverse and reverse . All that is needed is a couple of extra search fields, to allow the specific data to be requested in a query.

See also my similar query about obverse and reverse engravers (designers, artists) :

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic163115.html

The problem is that, applying Numista guidelines, a design is sometimes obverse and sometimes reverse.

Idolenz

I would suggest to use the ‘Lettering’ field to get rid of a few false positives and for modern coins the "your text here" to lock the order of words and reduce them further.

+1

Since Queen Elizabeth II died, there is much debate among certain British / Commonwealth-related states and territories about whether to keep the monarchy, and also whether to portray King Charles III on their coins or banknotes. 

Yesterday I put the description “Charles III” in a general search, with the year filtered as 2023 to date (2023-), to see which states or territories had included a portrait of him on circulating and non-circulating coins. To my dismay, the search brought up several coins, for instance from Anguilla and some other Caribbean states and territories, where his portrait did not appear either on obverse or reverse. This is because “Charles III” appeared in the “King” / “Ruling authority” field. I therefore had to wade through several entries to determine which states or territories had portrayed Charles III and which had not. That is why I think that separate filter fields for obverse description and reverse description would be majorly useful.

Maybe I also ask some questions about votes? Is there a quorum of user votes that needs to be reached before a request is implemented? And also is there a time period after which requests are closed and not implemented, even if more people have voted for them than not?

In the past there was a search field called 'design' or something similar that searched in the description fields and would have been helpful in your case. You can only try a phrase and hope that it is universally used like “bust of Charles III” or similar.
 

Votes don't influence that much in terms of implementation or rejection, the last word has the one needed to implement it and that is either the new programmer or the site owner. The votes just indicate popularity of suggestions.

Thank you, Idolenz.

I did try “bust of Charles III” and “effigy of Charles III”, but they were not foolproof. 😞

The vast majority of hits in THIS search that I described in my first post in this thread seem to be of coins with heads and busts.

Again, that search is not foolproof. It brought up these anomalies among others:

N#440254

N#385249

They are only two out of  the 3737 results of the initial query. I wouldn't fancy hunting down the other exceptions. ;-)

I used to work as a computer programmer in the olden days, and I had a reputation for producing bug-free programs.

That's why I like watertight solutions. 😄

Searching the edge “side” would also be useful. It would be helpful if the keyword search could be constrained to one (or several) specific fields only.