Haha, of course they do, I was just being sarcastic.
Compared to mine your organization is a masterpiece, I literally have piles of world coins lying on my desk and my coin box is a complete mess to anyone seeing it for the first time.
Haha, of course they do, I was just being sarcastic.
Compared to mine your organization is a masterpiece, I literally have piles of world coins lying on my desk and my coin box is a complete mess to anyone seeing it for the first time.
I never knew that an organized collection is somehow uncommon! I guess I have too much spare time in my hands to organize over 2700 coins.
I have albums and pages for a few but mostly flips in boxes. Ideally I'd take pictures of them first so I could look at my collection on a screen.
I have been using clear flips, mostly 1.5" size. That means a few coins that only fit in 2x2 or 2.5x2.5 flips need to be stored separately from all of their country mates. I sort them by countries, roughly geographically. The actual flips behind the labels I don't keep in any order.
I used to write each flip insert by hand but now print from a database once I have enough to fill up a sheet of paper.
Well, my foreign collection -which I generally don't much care for- just sits in an old shortbread tin.
Each nation is bundled up in those old plastic banking money bags with a label on them.
If I have sufficiently large numbers, I might break it down into government stages. E.g. France Fifth Republic, France Fourth Republic and so on.
Any precious metal coins are a little better looked after, they sit loose in a coin sheet. But no particular order, probably just when they entered the collection. 🤷♂️
Unfortunately, I am not able to show my store (as I am not home), but I can describe.
I store my coins in three different “containers”. (four if we count sets).
I store older UNC coins and silver in coin cases like this one:
New and common UNC, and some non-UNC coins that I decided to leave in my collection, I store in coin albums. I use Leuchtturm pages. I started to run out of space there, so I will have to buy new albums soon.
Slabbed coins go into wooden boxes, made specifically for slabs.
Within all three I organize coins by continent (Europe / Asia / North America (including Central and Caribbean) / South America / Africa / Australia and Oceania), and within those categories by name. Within one country I organize by currency system/political system/ruling authority (for monarchies), and within that by denomination.
For the sets: I store them in cardboard boxes. For those, currently I have only one rule: to fit the most into one box, so not proper organization there. A huge problem with sets is that all of them have different dimensions/shapes etc so it is hard to come up a proper system.
I have albums and pages for a few but mostly flips in boxes. Ideally I'd take pictures of them first so I could look at my collection on a screen.
I have been using clear flips, mostly 1.5" size. That means a few coins that only fit in 2x2 or 2.5x2.5 flips need to be stored separately from all of their country mates. I sort them by countries, roughly geographically. The actual flips behind the labels I don't keep in any order.
I used to write each flip insert by hand but now print from a database once I have enough to fill up a sheet of paper.
Say, where did you get those 1.5-inch clear flips?
In my collection I preferably like to store all coins on the same page, but some coins are too big to fit in the biggest size holder I use that I have to put those coins in bigger flips that are stored in separate pages. Those would come in handy!
Menu82025Say, where did you get those 1.5-inch clear flips?
In my collection I preferably like to store all coins on the same page, but some coins are too big to fit in the biggest size holder I use that I have to put those coins in bigger flips that are stored in separate pages. Those would come in handy!
Where to get them, my usual online stores would be wizard coin supply or air-tites.com, although I've been meaning to try coinsupplyexpress.
What to get can be more head-scratching. I try to get the kind claimed to be safe, which means no pvc or plasticizers. Sometimes they use words like ‘museum’ or ‘archival’ for whatever that's worth. The 1.5x1.5 are usually harder to find than the 2x2 size.
The biggest coins I can get in them are about the size of old UK pennies, 31mm.
