CoinPrepby The CoinHQ

For coin, medal and token sellers

The $40 coin shouldn’t take $40 worth of your time.

Upload the batch of photos from your photo table. CoinPrep removes the backgrounds, organizes each item, identifies what you photographed, researches the pieces that need it, and drafts your listings. You review everything before anything leaves the tool.

You do the numismatics. CoinPrep does the desk work.

Prep your first items freeWatch a real batch

Cleaned, organized and named automatically.

CoinPrep suggests a descriptive filename from the piece it identifies, then numbers every photograph of that same item for you. No more renamingIMG_4821.jpgby hand.

  • 1953-elizabeth-ii-coronation-crown-1.jpg
  • 1953-elizabeth-ii-coronation-crown-2.jpg

No card required · Your photographs are not redrawn · Nothing publishes without your approval

A phone photograph of a 1953 Elizabeth II coronation crown on a plain surface, before the background was removed
Phone photo
The same coronation crown cut out on pure white, centered in a square, with its toning and contact marks unchanged
2048 × 2048 · on white
The same coronation crown cut out on pure white, centered in a square, with its toning and contact marks unchanged — the same cut on a black ground
or on black

You photograph it. CoinPrep does the work.

You review everything before it leaves the tool.

  • A phone photograph of a 1907 McKinley memorial dedication medal, before the background was removedPhotographTake photos of your inventory
  • Both sides of the one medal, grouped as a single itemOrganizeGroup your photos by item
  • The same medal cut out on white, centred in a squareCleanRemove backgrounds and prepare images
  • A 1959 Oregon Centennial beaver, named from what it was identified asNameSuggest and apply meaningful filenames
  • A 1953 coronation crown being identifiedIdentifyIdentify each coin, medal or token
  • A 1927 Canada Diamond Jubilee medal being researchedResearchFind references and comps when needed
  • A 1969 Philippines piso being pricedPriceSuggest a selling price when possible
  • A Lincoln Declaration of Independence medalet with its listing draftedDraftCreate ready-to-use listings

CoinPrep takes care of these steps

  • DownloadYour images and CSV, ready to list

The piece shown is a 1907 McKinley memorial dedication medal from our own stock, as photographed and as the tool returned it. Nothing is retouched after the cut. It came back named:

1907-mckinley-memorial-dedication-medal-1.jpg

Some inventory is not difficult to sell. It’s difficult to find the time to list.

The $40 medal should not take $40 worth of your time.

Built for raw coins, medals and tokens.

Whatever is on the table comes back the same way: a worn cent, an irregular medal with a suspension hole, a token nobody has catalogued. The background goes and the piece stays exactly as you photographed it.

Phone photo of a 1969 Philippines one piso before the background was removed
Photo
The Philippines piso cut out on white
On white

A raw coin on the table

A 1969 Philippines piso, shot on a phone. The background goes; the toning, the contact marks and the wear stay exactly as they are.

Phone photo of a bronze medal on a gray table
Photo
The medal cut out on white
On white

A medal or token

Irregular shapes, suspension holes and high relief. The cut follows the real edge, hole and all; nothing is redrawn.

One sitting. One set.

A dime and a dollar fill the same frame. Same size, same framing, same background, every time, so a grid of your listings reads as a catalog, not a camera roll. White, black or transparent, chosen on the way out.

  • Thomas Jefferson, Society of Medalists 74, by Ralph Menconi, 1966, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square
  • 1943-D Mercury dime, obverse, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square
  • 1907 McKinley Memorial dedication medal, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square
  • 1906 Mexico 10 centavos, cap and rays, .800 silver, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square
  • 1959 Oregon Centennial beaver, HK-573, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square
  • Treaty of Portsmouth medal, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square
  • 1927 Canada Diamond Jubilee of Confederation medal, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square
  • Lincoln Declaration of Independence gilt medalet, cut out on white and centered at 90% of the square

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Upload the batch of photos

    Drag in a folder straight off the phone or camera. JPG, PNG, WEBP and HEIC, any size, up to six shots per piece.

  2. Step 2

    Every piece is cut out and framed

    The background goes. The coin stays exactly as you photographed it. If a rim got clipped or the shot was cut off at the edge, that one is flagged so you can take a look. A crooked coin gets straightened, in two-degree steps.

  3. Step 3

    Group, identify, name and export

    Tick the shots of one piece. Press Identify and it reads the photographs: series, date, mint mark, metal, a descriptive grade, a title and a description ready to edit, and it suggests the filename the images should carry. Press Attribute and it searches for the catalog reference and the published size. Press Deep Research and it also looks for comparable sales. Download a ZIP of named, numbered images with a CSV, one row per item.

One piece, all the way through.

Photographs off the phone, the same photographs cleaned and named, and the listing CoinPrep drafted from them. This is a real piece out of my own inventory and real output, unedited.

The piece as photographed, on the dealer's table, uncropped
Straight off the phonePXL_20260907_162702391.jpg
The same photograph cut out on white and centered, exported as 1959-oregon-centennial-beaver-token-hk-573-1.jpg
Cut out, framed and named1959-oregon-centennial-beaver-token-hk-573-1.jpg
The piece as photographed, on the dealer's table, uncropped
Straight off the phonePXL_20260907_162716470.jpg
The same photograph cut out on white and centered, exported as 1959-oregon-centennial-beaver-token-hk-573-2.jpg
Cut out, framed and named1959-oregon-centennial-beaver-token-hk-573-2.jpg

And the listing CoinPrep drafted from them

Deep Research · 16 credits
Suggested filename
1959-oregon-centennial-beaver-token-hk-573-1.jpg
Identified as
1959 United States Oregon Statehood Centennial so-called dollar (Oregon Beaver Dollar) · Oregon Statehood Centennial, 1859-1959
eBay title
1959 Oregon Centennial Beaver Dollar HK-573 North Clackamas County Uncirculated
Condition
Uncirculated. Bright golden oreide surfaces with mint bloom intact; the beaver, the lettering and the raised outer band show no wear, and the piece appears uncirculated. Scattered small dark specks and carbon-like flecks are visible in the obverse center field around the beaver and, more lightly, in the reverse center. A few very small rim nicks and a shallow scuff show along the edge, most noticeable at the lower left of the obverse as photographed. No holing, mounting evidence or plating traces are apparent in these images.
Catalog reference
HK-573
Estimated selling price
$15 - $25Quick sale $8 - $12 · One European dealer listing of an uncirculated brass example (38.70 mm, 15.80 g) sold at $23.17 on MA-Shops; CoinAppraiser publishes an approximate $5 figure for the type; Stack's Bowers grades the issue Rarity-1 (common) with 20,000 struck. No recent US sold-price record for a raw example was located.
Item specifics
Year: 1959 · Reference: HK-573 · Type: So-Called Dollar · Composition: Oreide (brass alloy) · +8 more
Check before you list
  • The arc of initials above the beaver is not fully legible here; the original coin reads K.M.T.A.W.R.G.S. for the company's eight members, so confirm the die matches before transcribing it in the listing.
  • Diameter figures conflict: Hibler-Kappen and Stack's Bowers give 38 mm, one dealer listing measured 38.70 mm, and several dealer pages repeat 39.7 mm. Measure the piece.
  • +4 more
Description
Issued for Oregon's statehood centennial by the North Clackamas County Chamber of Commerce, which sold the pieces at 50 cents to defray the cost of centennial events in the county. It is cataloged as HK-573 in Hibler and Kappen's standard work on so-called dollars, the term for dollar-sized commemorative medals of this kind; 20,000 were struck in oreide, a gold-colored brass alloy, at a standard 38 millimeters. Both sides copy the 1849 Oregon Exchange Company "Beaver" ten dollar piece, gold coined privately at Oregon City before the federal mint reached the Pacific Northwest. The obverse center shows the beaver on a log with an arc of initials above, T.O. and the date 1849 below, and small stars and sprigs in the field, ringed by AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE HISTORIC "BEAVER" TEN DOLLAR GOLD PIECE and, outside the border, A SOUVENIR FROM MIRACULOUS NORTH CLACKAMAS COUNTY. The reverse center reads 10. D. 20 G. / NATIVE / GOLD. / TEN. D. within OREGON EXCHANGE COMPANY, encircled by OREGON CENTENNIAL 1859-1959 between two stars. The gold-colored surfaces retain their original bloom with no wear; scattered dark flecks show in the fields and a few tiny nicks are present on the rim.
View another example all the way throughA Civil War store card, and the one where it refuses to name the catalog number, tells you which book to open, and says the piece may have been cleaned.
The piece as photographed, on the dealer's table, uncropped
Straight off the phonePXL_20260907_163050781.jpg
The same photograph cut out on white and centered, exported as sandwich-bank-illinois-civil-war-token-nb-castle-1.jpg
Cut out, framed and namedsandwich-bank-illinois-civil-war-token-nb-castle-1.jpg
The piece as photographed, on the dealer's table, uncropped
Straight off the phonePXL_20260907_163016057.jpg
The same photograph cut out on white and centered, exported as sandwich-bank-illinois-civil-war-token-nb-castle-2.jpg
Cut out, framed and namedsandwich-bank-illinois-civil-war-token-nb-castle-2.jpg

And the listing CoinPrep drafted from them

Deep Research · 16 credits
Suggested filename
sandwich-bank-illinois-civil-war-token-nb-castle-1.jpg
Identified as
United States Civil War store card · Sandwich Bank (M.B. Castle), Sandwich, Illinois
eBay title
Sandwich Bank M.B. Castle Sandwich Illinois Civil War Store Card Token Copper
Condition
Extremely Fine. All of the lettering on both sides is complete and sharp, with only light rub on the highest points of the letters and the beaded border, and the beading is visible around most of both rims. The surfaces are granular rather than smooth, with scattered dark specks and small pits, and there is a darker area at the upper right of the reverse and shallow roughness through the reverse center. The copper is a bright orange-red that does not look like undisturbed original surface, so the piece may have been cleaned or brightened at some point; no holes, edge bumps or mounting evidence are visible in these photographs.
Catalog reference
No number confirmed. Which reference to check:Fuld, "U.S. Civil War Store Cards," Sandwich, Illinois — the Castle bank listing; the die combination and metal suffix were not independently verified, and published sources disagree on the issuer's initial.
Estimated selling price
No reliable comparable sales found; you set the price
Item specifics
Type: Civil War Store Card · Country/Region of Manufacture: United States · Region/State: Illinois · City: Sandwich · +6 more
Check before you list
  • Examine the initial before "B. CASTLE" under magnification: sources split between M.B. Castle (the banker Miles Beach Castle) and W.B. Castle, and the reading may decide the Fuld die/merchant listing.
  • Confirm the exact Fuld number against the printed reference before advertising one: market listings for this copper bank card are usually cited as IL 775A-1a (R-5), while at least one cites a 775A-2a (R-3).
  • +4 more
Description
A Civil War store card — a privately struck, cent-sized token that a merchant or bank put out during 1862-1864, when federal cents had vanished from circulation — issued for the Sandwich Bank of Sandwich, Illinois. The bank was opened in 1856 by Miles Beach Castle (1826-1900), a New York native who came to DeKalb County, ran a lumber business, published the Sandwich Argus and later served in the Illinois Senate; the bank continued under his family and became the Sandwich State Bank in 1919. The obverse reads SANDWICH / BANK / M.B. CASTLE / SANDWICH, with small ornaments and ILLINOIS curved along the lower rim inside a beaded border. The reverse reads DEPOSIT / EXCHANGE / & (flanked by ornaments) / LOAN / OFFICE. The piece carries no date; cards of this kind were struck about 1863. It is copper, and the published size for the issue is 19 mm. Sandwich, Illinois pieces are cataloged in Fuld's store card reference, but published descriptions and grading-service labels differ over whether the initial before B. CASTLE reads M or W, so no catalog number is stated here. Lettering is sharp with light rub; the surfaces are granular, with dark specks and a bright copper color suggesting an old cleaning.

Why I built CoinPrep

I built CoinPrep because I dreaded the desk work that came with buying a new collection.

Photographing the pieces was easy. Then came opening every image in Photoshop, cropping and rotating it, removing the background, resizing it, saving it with a useful filename, working out exactly what the item was, searching for references and comparable sales, writing the description, pricing it, and finally creating the listing.

That work was especially hard to justify on lower-value coins, medals and tokens. I might buy a group of 50 new pieces, each with a likely selling price of $10 to $100, then spend days photographing, identifying, researching, pricing and preparing listings for all of them.

Some inventory is not difficult to sell. It’s difficult to find the time to list.

So I built the tool I wanted for my own inventory. CoinPrep takes a batch of raw photographs, cleans and organizes them, suggests and applies meaningful filenames, identifies each item, researches the pieces that need more work, helps estimate a selling price when reliable market information is available, and drafts the listings for me to review.

It has saved me an enormous amount of time, particularly on the pieces I used to keep putting aside because I simply did not have time to list them.

I am still the numismatist. CoinPrep handles the desk work.

Richard Ferguson · coin and medal seller · built CoinPrep for his own inventory first

Built for a numismatist, not a stock photographer

Your coin, untouched

Most background removers redraw the coin to get rid of the table, and the lettering shifts, the toning changes, a worn rim comes back sharp. This one only removes what is around the coin. What you photographed is what the buyer sees.

It tells you when to look

Every cut-out is checked. A clipped rim, a shot that ran off the edge of the photo, a piece that came back too small: those get a flag on the card. Nothing is thrown away for you; you look, and you decide.

You pay for what you use

Two credits cut out a coin, up to six photographs of it. One more identifies it and writes the listing. Five looks it up online. Eight goes deep. Nothing is spent until you press the button.

Simple pricing

Start with 20 credits free, no card, and 20 more every month. Two credits cut out one item, up to six photographs of it. One more identifies it and writes the listing. Pick the plan that matches how much you list.

Full pricing, packs and details →

  • Starter

    $9 a month

    100 credits · 9c a credit

  • Collector

    $19 a month

    250 credits · 7.6c a credit

  • Most dealers

    Dealer

    $29 a month

    500 credits · 5.8c a credit

Ready when the photos are.

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