Numista

Name

Numista

Legal name

Numista

Website

https://en.numista.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Numismatic Catalog Platform

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYCRAFAGAN

Managed Consignment & Authentication-led Resale

Consumer Products & Retail/E-commerce & Marketplaces/Secondhand/Resale & Recommerce Platforms

Keywords

• Coin catalog platform
• Numismatic database
• Collection management
• Coin swap service
• Numismatic literature

Headquarters

HQ city

Antibes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Affiliate Commissions: Numista earns commissions through affiliate partnerships with external platforms including Catawiki, eBay, and Katz Auctions when users click through to purchase items. This is the primary revenue mechanism observed on the platform.
2. Advertising: Display advertising placements for numismatic auction houses and dealers, such as Katz Auctions and NumisCorner banners featured throughout the site.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Numista operates a free, web-based collaborative platform for numismatists, providing a community-built catalog of 530,000+ world coin and banknote types with 957,713 varieties. The platform integrates collection inventory management, peer-to-peer swap matching with member ratings, a discussion forum with over 1.1 million messages, a numismatic literature database, and a directory of numismatic events. The service is offered free to individual collectors, monetized through affiliate commissions on third-party auction platforms (Catawiki, eBay, Katz Auctions) and display advertising.

Product overview

Numista is a collaborative numismatic platform offering a unified suite of tools for coin, banknote, and exonumia collectors. The core offering consists of the Catalog (a comprehensive database of world coins and banknotes built by the community), Collection Management (personal inventory tracking), Swap (peer-to-peer trading), Forum (community discussions), Literature Catalog (numismatic publications database), and Outings (event listings). The platform supports over 530,000 cataloged types across 957,000+ varieties and connects a community of over 352,000 members who actively swap, discuss, and share numismatic knowledge.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Numista Catalog Collaborative online catalog of world coins, banknotes, tokens, medals, and paper exonumia covering all countries and historical periods, built and maintained by community volunteers with advanced search filters for identification.
• Collection Management Online personal inventory system that lets users track coins, banknotes, and other collectibles in their collection, store pictures and personal comments, and view collection statistics.
• Numista Swap Peer-to-peer exchange platform that connects registered members to swap their coins and banknotes. Users define items available for swap and their wish lists, and Numista helps identify potential swap partners and provides a member rating system.
• Numista Forum Community discussion platform for numismatic topics including coin identification requests, valuations, news sharing, swap requests, and catalog modifications. Contains over 1.1 million messages across specialized sections.
• Numismatic Literature Catalog Reference database of numismatic books, periodical issues, articles, and authors/editors (33,344 books and periodical issues, 88,627 articles, 18,527 authors and editors) used by collectors researching numismatic publications.
• Numismatic Outings Directory of upcoming numismatic fairs, expos, conferences, shops, markets, and museums worldwide, with event dates, locations, and attendee information for the collector community.
• Numista API Application programming interface that allows third-party developers to access Numista's catalog data programmatically for building external applications and services.

Quantifiable outcome

• 530,000+ types cataloged across coins, banknotes, tokens, medals, and exonumia
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CatawikicoreGTM or Marketing PartnerAffiliate partnership displaying Catawiki auction listings on Numista product pages. Numista receives commissions when users click through to purchase items on Catawiki. Featured listings appear throughout the site promoting coins, banknotes, and related numismatic items available on Catawiki's auction platform.
• eBaycoreGTM or Marketing PartnerAffiliate partnership connecting Numista users to eBay listings for coins and banknotes. When users click on eBay links from Numista pages, Numista earns a commission on resulting sales. eBay listings appear on individual item pages showing current prices and availability.
• Katz AuctionsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAdvertising partnership with Katz Auctions, a numismatic auction house. Banner advertisements and featured listings appear on Numista's documentation and help pages, promoting Katz Auctions' Australian and world coin/banknote offerings.
• NumisCornerminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAdvertising partnership with NumisCorner, a numismatic dealer. Banner advertisements appear on country catalog pages (e.g., Fiji), promoting NumisCorner's inventory of 300,000+ items.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Colnect: Free collaborative catalog covering stamps, coins, banknotes, and other collectibles with personal collection management and P2P swap features — the closest functional mirror to Numista's catalog-plus-swap model.
• Catawiki: Online auction platform specializing in collectibles including coins and banknotes; both a key Numista affiliate partner and direct competitor for collectibles discovery and purchase.
• VCoins: Online marketplace aggregating dealer inventories of ancient and world coins; competes directly with Numista for collector purchase intent in the numismatic vertical.
• MA-Shops: Numismatic marketplace connecting collectors with dealers worldwide; offers a similar swap-and-purchase value proposition to Numista Swap and its affiliate listings.

Regional players

• APMEX: US-focused precious metals and coin dealer with deep retail and B2B operations; comparable as a numismatic retail destination but primarily serves the North American market.

Broad incumbents

• eBay: Global general-purpose marketplace with a large coins and banknotes category; both an affiliate partner that drives Numista revenue and a broader incumbent competing for collector commerce.
• Stack's Bowers Galleries: Long-established numismatic auction house offering world and ancient coin sales; competes in the same high-end collector purchase funnel as Numista's auction-house affiliate partners.
• Heritage Auctions: Major auction house with one of the largest numismatic departments; competes for the same high-value collector transactions that flow through Numista's affiliate links.
• NGC (Numismatic Guaranty Company): Coin grading and authentication service with price guide and collector resources; overlaps Numista's identification and reference utility from a more institutional angle.
• PCGS: Professional coin grading service with price guide, registry sets, and collector tools — a broader incumbent overlapping Numista's identification and reference functionality with deeper institutional resources.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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