Happy approaching ANZAC Day. Lest we forget.

In the new year, I have been regularly attending markets to face the public and have some fun talking to collectors and casual visitors.

Sadly the Hobart Collector Fair (the one in Glenorchy) is no longer running, but I have found a Sunday replacement at the Sorell Community Market. This was a major regional market back before COVID and they have restarted operations with more stalls and variety every second Sunday. Please check out their facebook and I'll see you there.

My next market will be:

Sorell Community Market

May 5 2024
Sorell memorial Hall
49 Cole Street Sorell Tasmania
9am-2pm

Coming up:

-Roman Belousov 20240407

I noticed the PCGS banknotes were not working yesterday, as I was trying to list the latest haul. The last time, I assumed PCGS was down. Today, looking at my code, I realised the whole PCGS branch was not compliant with the new database format as well as not using the proxy. I guess that I must have just processed the last batch (3+ months ago) of PCGS notes manually so that I could drive on and then forgot about it. PCGS notes should be fixed now. I know no-one's using the site right now from looking at the analytics, but trust me, what should take a day of painful ebay listing only takes a few hours using this tool. So, spending 4 hours getting to the bottom of this, I felt was a worthwhile investment into whatever future this project has.

Many issues remain. For instance, I've noticed that the PCGS coins module is not returning the top pop count as it should, whereas the note module does. It's clearly a bug, but it's too minor for me to worry about right now.

-Roman Belousov 20231008

I lost my IT consulting business right about COVID time in early 2020. It wasn't COVID's fault, but it nonetheless hurt. I was already dealing in coins at the time. Coins were my passion since I was a boy. I still have the first coin that I collected in my album. 1952 20k USSR. There is nothing special about it, other than it is my first coin.

I found work for a local coin shop and one of the jobs I had to do was list a large number of graded coins for sale or auction. So, being a developer by trade, I wrote about 1000 lines of code to scrape PCGS coins, notes and NGC coins and return coin descriptions and values. Only PCGS coins are functional right now.

I'm temporarily offering you this app for free. There are many issues yet to be fixed, but I intend to monerise this mess once I have some time to tidy it up. Please note that login and signup probably don't work. Please contact me if you have any thoughts.

-Roman Belousov 20230213