Do You Ever Get Your Collection Organized

I have my Japanese coins very well organized in a tidy type set!

Oh wait, you mean *all* of my coins?



I have shoeboxes full of baggies. That counts as organized, right? And the piles that have consumed my desk?

I live in a small appartment, so organisation is a big deal for me. A few rules I tend to follow:
- I never buy lots
- always think about storing before buying
- from time to time I take some random coin to my LCS for a chip off the price of some coin(s) I'm buying
- every collection demands time invested in it (I work at a museum, and some of my coworkers there think that when an object is designated in a collection, the story ends ... Truth is, of course, far from this)

GR, I thought you were trying to downsize?

My collection is SOoooo tiny compared to yours but yes! I am trying to organize it and get rid of duplicates. I have probably $200 fv in sets and partial sets of Lincolns, Jeffersons, clad Roosevelts, State Quarters, ATBs, Kennedy halves and other assorted change in a large tupperware bowl I plan on taking to coin star this weekend.
My little collection is turning into a hoard and I don't have room to store all the coins I have been holding onto that are only going to be worth face value for a VERY long time...or forever
I have emptied out 6 Danscos this week. I am switching to CAPS albums for my modern coins and cutting the cord on all my duplicates. I just came to the conclusion that one set is enough for me, but I don't work in a coin shop and have all those temptations like you do!
Good Luck and keep us posted!

My collection is always in a state of organised chaos, I have stuff scattered everywhere and yet Most of the time I can find even the half forgotten about or obscure coins with a bit of searching.
When I start on some new coin project I tend to pretty much ignore everything else and concentrate solely on that project, as a result the coins that I have bought weeks previously that finally get delivered just get tossed in a box or a drawer and there are some that I haven't even unpacked yet.
It is always enjoyable to go through all the unsorted stuff later on and try to put them in the appropriate albums and to rediscover why I bought them in the first place
For Me collecting is all about Fun and enjoying the hunt and the learning curve that goes with it.
Keeping everything neat and tidy is nice but I find actually doing the tidying up to be boring and annoying and nowhere near as much Fun as searching for new acquisitions

When silver was at reaching for $50/oz. several years ago, I sold $100FV of my worst condition 40% half dollars.

In retrospect, I wish I had sold a lot more back then.

If you hold onto something thinking "this will be worth something someday" -- then you have to sell when it actually IS worth something!