Quick round-up of what has landed on MyCoinage this week. Most of it is quality-of-life, the kind of thing you notice the second time you use the site.
Browse works properly on mobile now
The coin cards on the browse grid (and anywhere else you see a small coin thumbnail) have had a proper tidy-up:
- Perfect circles. Every thumbnail is now rendered as a true circle regardless of the underlying photo. The coin itself sits well inside the circle, so heptagonal 50ps and square-cropped photos are never clipped at the top or bottom.
- One-tap navigation. If you have been on mobile you will have noticed the old "tap once to select, tap again to open" behaviour. That is gone. Tap a coin card and you go straight to the coin page.
The same thumbnail treatment is now used on the guides hub too, so everything feels consistent.
Guides hub with a proper grading reference
/guides/ is now a real editorial section. The featured page is the Coin Grading Guide, which walks through:
- The full Sheldon 1-to-70 scale with plain-English descriptions of every grade.
- The UK descriptive scale from Poor through to Fleur de Coin.
- A side-by-side crossover table so you can translate between them.
- A five-step technique for grading a coin at home: lighting, handling, the five inspection zones, comparison, confirmation.
- Twelve of the most-asked grading questions, answered.
Alongside that, the Guides hub has picked up in-depth value lists for every major UK denomination: 50p values, £2 values, £1 values, sovereign values, rare UK coins, plus the 1933 penny, coin errors, Charles III coins, and more.
Every guide now shows a "Last updated" date underneath the title and a proper byline so you know when the content was last reviewed.
Coin pages: less scrolling, more reading
On the individual coin pages:
- Mobile layout rearranged. On a phone, the price graph and market summary now sit above the country / year / denomination spec block, so the most-wanted information is what you see first.
- Sale records. The auction history table now fits each sale on a single row on mobile. No more scrolling through a vertical stack of cards.
- Facts paragraph. A plain-text summary of the coin appears right under the title: country, years minted, designer / mint, metal, weight, diameter, mintage, key-date status. Useful at a glance.
Free users can see more graph history now
The free tier allowance has gone up from one full price graph a day to three. The first view from a brand-new browser is also free, so visitors can see what the full graph looks like before deciding whether to sign up.
Community is moving to a new Discord
If you want to chat coins, suggest data corrections, or ask for a series to be added, the new invite is:
Instagram has moved to instagram.com/trackmycoinage. The old handles are retired. If you were following the old accounts, please swap over. We post rarities, auction-result highlights, and the occasional shop-window find.
A word on the data
MyCoinage went live a few weeks ago. The catalogue is already tracking 4,700+ British coins with realised auction prices, but more sales are being added every day from eBay UK/US, Spink, Baldwin's, Noonans and Onebid. If you spot a coin that is missing or a price that looks wrong, please get in touch or drop into Discord. Every report helps.
And if you want to contribute directly, such as writing a guide, adding sales from a niche UK auction house, or helping us extend into US coin coverage, we would love to hear from you. The site is still early; this is the good bit.
— Eleanor