What it costs
You get a number of credits each month. Cutting out one item, with up to six photographs of it, costs two credits. Having it identified and the listing written costs two more. Attributing it against the catalogs costs eight in total. You only spend a credit when you press the button.
Those first two credits, on a real piece: the photograph as it came off the table, the token small and off-centre in a grey dish, and the same token cut out square on white with nothing about it redrawn. The toning, the rim and every contact mark are exactly as photographed.
Start free
One Wanamaker Indian head good luck token. Nothing retouched, nothing redrawn.
What a credit buys
| Action | Credits | Charged |
|---|---|---|
Cut OutCut out, frame and rename an item Up to six photographs of one piece: background removed, every image 2048 × 2048 on white, black or transparent, rotated straight, renamed in sequence, in a ZIP with a CSV. | 2 | At export, once per item, however many times you export it |
IdentifyIdentify and draft the listing Reads the photographs and writes a first draft: what it is, an eBay title and description, item specifics, condition in words, a shipping recommendation, and what to check. | 2 | When you press Identify |
AttributeFind the attribution, the catalog reference and the published specs The same draft, then it searches the web to confirm the attribution and find the catalog reference and the published size and weight. | 8 | When you press Attribute |
Deep ResearchInvestigate an obscure, ambiguous or historically complicated piece A wider search and more time to think, for a piece whose attribution is genuinely obscure: tokens, medals, political Americana. It is also the only level that looks for comparable sales, and it notes them when real ones exist. | 16 | When you press Deep Research |
So a coin you cut out and identify is 4 credits. A medal you cut out and attribute is 10, because a research level is a TOTAL on the item and not an addition to the one below it. A piece you only want cut out on white is 2. Re-exporting, regrouping, rotating and reprocessing a cut never cost anything.
Free trial
20 credits to start, then 20 a month, no cardEnough to run a real handful of pieces end to end, identify a few, and see whether the cut-outs and the drafts hold up on your own photographs. After the first month it is 20 credits a month: one piece looked up, or a few identified, whenever you want to come back.
Start freeMonthly plans
Starter
$9 a month
100 credits a month · 9c a credit
50 coins cut out and identified, or 100 cut out only
Collector
$19 a month
250 credits a month · 7.6c a credit
125 coins cut out and identified, or 250 cut out only
Most dealers
Dealer
$29 a month
500 credits a month · 5.8c a credit
250 coins cut out and identified, or 500 cut out only
Card payment through Stripe. Change plan or cancel any time from your account page; a cancelled plan runs to the end of the month you paid for. Unused credits roll over into the next month, up to a month’s worth.
Credit packs
For the month you buy a collection, or for a dealer who lists in bursts. Pack credits never expire and are spent only after the month’s credits are gone.
100 credits · $15
15c a credit, no expiry
250 credits · $30
12c a credit, no expiry
500 credits · $50
10c a credit, no expiry
Each one, in detail
1Cut OutCut out, frame and rename an item
2 credits
You get
- Up to six photographs of one piece: obverse, reverse, edge, a close-up, a detail.
- The background removed without redrawing the coin. What you photographed is exactly what is kept.
- Every image 2048 × 2048, the piece at 90% of the frame, on white, black or transparent, so a grid of your listings lines up.
- Each cut checked for a torn edge, a sliced rim or contact with the photograph’s edge, and flagged for your eye. Never rejected for you.
- A lightbox to inspect the cut at full size, and rotation in two-degree steps to straighten it.
- Files renamed in sequence from a name you choose, and a ZIP with a CSV, one row per item. JPEG by default; PNG or WebP if you prefer.
What it does not do
It does not retouch. Scratches, toning, a bent rim and a fingerprint stay exactly as photographed, because that is what the buyer is buying.
2IdentifyIdentify and draft the listing
2 credits
You get
- What it is: series or type, year, mint mark, denomination, metal, variety, and the country.
- The wear and the surfaces described as the photographs show them. The Condition grade on a raw piece reads “Please see photos”, because a grade is a claim about a coin in hand; turn on the conservative descriptive grade (Fine, Very Fine, Extremely Fine…) in your listing defaults if you want it. A piece in a holder shows the holder’s grade.
- A detailed condition note: wear, luster, marks, spotting, toning, cleaning, holes, mounting evidence. Faults named, never minimized.
- An eBay title of at most 80 characters in the order buyers search, and a 100 to 200 word description in plain American English that says only what a photograph or a reference supports. No filler.
- The eBay category, up to twelve item specifics, and a shipping recommendation with the reason.
- A subject, an item type and a fuller title for your own website.
- A “check before listing” list: what a person should confirm before it goes up.
- A confidence rating. When it is not certain, it says so and stops; it never searches on its own.
What it does not do
It reads the photographs and nothing else. It does not search, does not give a catalog reference it is not certain of, does not estimate size or weight from a picture, and never offers an opinion on price.
3AttributeFind the attribution, specs, history and comparable examples
8 credits
You get
- Everything in Identify, then it searches the web on our most capable model to confirm the attribution.
- The catalog reference in its standard form when it is published online: Sullivan-DeWitt, Fuld, HK, Baker, Julian, Rulau, BHM, Eimer, KM. When it cannot pin the exact number it says so rather than guessing.
- The standard published diameter and weight for the issue, shown as unconfirmed until you measure the piece.
- Comparable sales, when real recent ones are found: a quick-sale range, a patient retail range and a suggested buy-it-now. Never invented, never put in the listing text.
- Research notes on what was confirmed and where, and links to the pages it read.
What it does not do
Some references only exist in print, so a piece can come back with “verify against the printed reference” rather than a number. That is the honest answer, and it is worth knowing before you spend the credits.
4Deep ResearchInvestigate an obscure, ambiguous or historically complicated piece
16 credits
You get
- Everything in Attribute, then it searches wider and takes longer over the evidence.
- For the piece whose attribution is genuinely obscure: a store card token, a so-called dollar, a world’s fair award, an unlisted political medal.
- The most useful thing it returns is often the “check before listing” list: exactly which reference to open, what to measure, what to read on the edge.
What it does not do
It is not needed for regular coinage. A Morgan dollar is identified by its date and mint mark from the photograph; more searching will not tell you more.
What a draft looks like
A real draft from a Attribute pass on a bronze medal, unedited. Every field is yours to change, and nothing is final until you approve it.
Title · 78 of 80 characters
1862 London International Exhibition Prize Medal Bronze 76.5mm Wyon BHM 2747
Description
Large bronze award medal from the International Exhibition held in London in 1862, the successor to the Great Exhibition of 1851. The dies were engraved by Leonard Charles Wyon of the Royal Mint after a design by the painter Daniel Maclise, R.A.; both artists’ names appear in small letters in the field.
One side carries an allegorical scene: Britannia seated with a lion resting at her feet, surrounded by female figures personifying Industry, Agriculture, Science and the Arts, one holding a spinning wheel and another a sheaf of grain. The other side shows a wreath of oak leaves tied with a ribbon at the bottom enclosing the inscription 1862 / LONDINI / HONORIS / CAUSA (“at London, for the sake of honor”), with the engraver’s signature in tiny letters below the wreath. The piece is cataloged as BHM 2747 and Eimer 1553; the standard published size is 76.5 mm with a weight of about 213 grams.
The medal shows warm medium brown surfaces with good detail in the high relief. Scattered light contact marks and a few darker spots are present in the open fields, and a small piece of blue ribbon or tape clings to the edge on the figural side. Award medals of this issue were normally engraved on the edge with the recipient’s name and exhibition class.
Item specifics
- Year: 1862
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
- Composition: Bronze
- Theme: World’s Fair / Exhibition
- Designer: Daniel Maclise R.A.
- Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon
- Type: Prize / Award Medal
- Reference: BHM 2747, Eimer 1553
- Diameter: 76.5 mm
- Era: Victorian (1837-1901)
Also filled in
- Category: Coins & Paper Money › Exonumia › Medals
- Ship as: 6 × 4 × 2 box (a thick, heavy medal)
- Size: 76.5 mm, marked unconfirmed until you measure it
- Confidence: high · 1 search · 6 source pages linked
Check before listing
- Check the edge for an engraved recipient name and class number and add it to the listing
- Weigh and measure the medal to confirm it matches the published 76.5 mm / 213 g
- Decide whether to remove the blue ribbon or tape residue on the edge
What you get back
On the screen, per item
- eBay listing: title, description, price, quantity, SKU, condition, item specifics, and the full description as it will paste, with your standard notes added.
- Website listing: the same piece written for your own site, as Markdown you can copy.
- Size and weight: the published figure, your measurement, and a box to mark it measured.
- Shipping: your profiles, the suggested one flagged, packed weight, handling, returns, notes.
- Research: comps, notes, the pages it read, and what to check.
In the ZIP
- A folder of images named your-name-1, your-name-2, and so on, 2048 × 2048 on white, black or transparent, any rotation baked in. JPEG, PNG or WebP.
- listings.csv, one row per item: title, the assembled description, price, condition, every fact, size and weight with a measured flag, item specifics, shipping profile and package, comps, sources, and the image filenames.
- Ready to paste into eBay, import to a spreadsheet, or hand to whoever does your listings.
Things worth knowing
- Nothing is charged automatically. Cutting out runs when you upload and is charged at export; Identify, Attribute and Deep Research run only when you press them.
- An item is charged once, ever. Export it again, in another format or after a rotation, and it costs nothing.
- A measurement is never invented. A published size shows as unconfirmed until you measure the piece and say so; only then does it go into your website listing.
- The drafts are drafts. They are written to be checked by someone who knows the piece, which is why every one comes with a list of what to check.
- iPhone HEIC is accepted straight from the camera roll. The cut-out is a normal file everywhere.
Questions, or need a size that is not listed? hello@thecoinhq.com