Storage & Display Of ATB 3-Coin Sets?

When I get the 3 coin set I just open them up and put them in my album. I just couldn't think of a way to store them conveniently so I just gave into temptation and opened them up.

Next year I won't be ordering these sets at all. I figure that I can $20 by ordering the silver and clad proofs along with the uncirculated annual coin set. Also, this will allow me to fulfill the 2013 pages much earlier than by waiting for the 3 coin sets to be issued.

I'm just getting impatient waiting for the the 3 coin sets to be issued on the mint's schedule. Besides after looking into the uncirculated sets all these coins are issued in the individual 3 coin set along with a clad proof. So I am thinking that this will help me in the long run.

Thanks, jbuck, ghostrider, and bkprewitt. I lost track of this topic but found it again looking for bkprewitt's thread on storing FDCC's. :)

@jbuck - I'm chuckling imagining a Dansco large enough for 50 of these things. :) I think I'll give that wooden photo box thing a shot, or build one myself. The stock in those sets is thick enough to prevent sag or bending of the set (especially if there's enough of them packed in there to prevent leaning), so standing them on their edge shouldn't be a big deal. If it's a nice enough box it could even be displayed on a shelf somewhere. Hmmm... maybe a good time to practice inlay techniques.

@ghostrider - yeah, storage is a pain. I wonder if they'll do a 4-coin set next year (assuming the business strike S quarters are still minted) and change up the form factor... bleah. Or maybe they'll take the proof out of the set and replace it with the business strike.

@bkprewitt - You know, for all the searching I've been doing for FDCC albums that we've been talking about in another thread, it seems that there are postcard albums along the same lines of the FDC/FDCC albums that might do the trick for this. Will keep searching.

As long as the special S-mint issues are for 2012 only, there will be enough blank holes on the last page for them (the 7145 has eight holes on the last page, the 8146/8147 combo should have 16 holes on the last page of the 8147).

Personally, I was of the opinion that the S business coins would be a shoe in since the mint seems to be running out of special issues of silver eagles and since they do need the money for the government. After all, they appear to be the only profit center that the government has.

I looking forward to having these mintings around for the continuation of the series. I'll probably be purchasing these in rolls once the calendar year is completed, but I'll wait on that for right now.

If they continued this for the rest of the run, my biggest sticking point would be the two years (2010 and 2011) that they did not have these coins. It makes the set uneven.

That would aggravate the snot out of me as well. But at the same time, just one year of issue would be more aggravating. I am hoping they continue for the rest of the series. And, as mentioned, they ARE making money on them.

I agree with you jbuck. I wish they either didn't make them at all or started making them in 2010.

Now if they also made enough for circulation and released them through the Federal Reserve, then that would have helped to make more collectors of them.