The biggest change this fortnight is on the discussion side. Coin comments are no longer just text. A handful of smaller upgrades make the rest of the site read better too.
Photos in coin comments
Every comment box now has an "Attach photo" button. Up to four images per comment, JPG, PNG or WebP, 5 MB each. Reply forms can attach photos too, so a "here is what mine looks like" answer is now possible.
A few abuse mitigations sit underneath:
- Twenty uploads per user per twenty-four hours
- GD re-encode on every upload (strips EXIF, blocks polyglot files)
- Random filenames, never anything user-controlled
- Stale drafts reaped after a day
- Deleting a comment hard-deletes its attached images and the files on disk
If you have ever wanted to ask "is this real?" or "what grade is this?", the discussion box on each coin page is now the place.
Discussion threads got smarter
Comments now carry a type: Discussion, Question, Tip, Story, Correction, or Help me ID. Each type renders as a coloured badge, and the filter pills above the thread (All, Questions, Open, Tips, Stories) make it easy to find what you came for.
Question threads gain a "Mark as helpful" workflow. The original asker, or a moderator, can mark any reply as the helpful answer. The reply gets a green check, the question flips from "Open" to "Answered", and the helpful answerer earns +15 reputation. Reply notifications fire to the original author too.
Other discussion improvements live now:
- Edit your own comment within ten minutes
- Light markdown for
**bold**,*italic*and`code`, with auto-linked URLs - Reputation pills next to usernames (Newcomer, Collector, Enthusiast, Expert, Authority, Legend)
The empty state on a fresh coin page also has quick prompts now ("Ask a question", "Share a tip", "Tell your story"), so starting a thread is a single click.
Add to Collection finally accepts both sides
The Add to Collection modal had a long-running bug: photos picked at add-time were silently dropped. The form was missing the multipart enctype, so the file never reached the server. Both sides of that are now fixed, and the modal also has a second picker for the reverse face, so a fresh collection entry can land with both obverse and reverse photos in one go.
Coin pages: more context, less guessing
Each coin page now carries three new sidebar blocks:
- Also issued as. Same year, same design, different metal or finish. If you landed on the cupronickel issue, the gold proof and silver piedfort siblings are one click away with their own realised prices.
- Related guides. Mapped automatically: a 50p Snowman links to the Peter Rabbit and 50p value guides; a sovereign links to the gold sovereign reference; an error coin links to the UK errors list.
- Last sale freshness. The Market Value card now shows "Last sale 4 days ago" or "Last sale 3 months ago" so you know whether the number is fresh or stale.
Coins with no realised auction sales yet now fall back gracefully too. The chart area shows the live melt value (gold or silver), a search-on-eBay link for live sold listings, a "be the first to add a sale" prompt for logged-in collectors, and five comparable same-denomination coins with their realised prices, so the page is useful even when our data is thin.
Three new browse pages
/coins/by-monarch lists every reign from George III in 1817 through to Charles III, with a feature image and a coin count for each. Each row links to a filtered browse so you can see only the coins from a particular reign in two clicks.
/coins/by-series lists every catalogued series with three sample thumbnails per row. Useful if you collect by theme: Peter Rabbit, Olympic 50p, Britannia, Lunar.
/coins/most-expensive is the top hundred coins by realised hammer price, refreshed daily. Where the rare hardware actually sits.
Honest comparisons
Two new pages cover the question every collector eventually asks: how does MyCoinage compare to the tools they already use?
- vs Numista. Numista catalogues, MyCoinage values. They complement each other, and we say so.
- vs Coin Hunter. Both track UK coins. Coin Hunter wins on community and simplicity, MyCoinage wins on realised auction prices and grade-by-grade history.
If you would like a comparison against another tool you use, drop us a line and we will write it.
Smaller things
- Author page. /about/editor is now a proper author profile with editorial standards and an affiliate disclosure. Every guide footer carries a "Reviewed by" link to it.
- Share cards. Every coin URL now generates a 1200x630 share image on the fly, with the obverse photo, the coin name, the year and the latest realised price. Try posting a coin URL into Twitter, WhatsApp or Discord and you will see the card.
- Newsletter signup. A small footer widget captures email from visitors who are not ready to register yet.
- Install prompt. Returning visitors on Android Chrome now get a soft "Install MyCoinage" banner after their third visit in seven days, dismissable for thirty days.
- Filter sidebar scroll. The browse-page filters now scroll inside the sidebar instead of getting stranded below the viewport when the infinite-scroll grid runs long.
What is next
Email digests, properly wired. The infrastructure is already in place: the Market digest frequency dropdown on /account/settings accepts your preference, but no sender is connected yet. Once the sender is configured the weekly and monthly digests will start landing.
After that, US coverage gets a real push.
If you have anything you would like to see prioritised, the discussion threads and Discord are open.
— Eleanor