Coin Collection Storage

Most of my coins are in specific Dansco albums, so I chose "Obverse & Reverse sided Albums." I do have a couple of Dansco albums that hold the cardboard 2x2s for "miscellaneous" coins. I also have some tubes as well. I could have said "Mix of all the above" but I let what I call the "strong majority" influence my choice.

All of the above.

For my nicer set I prefer the Dansco albums, if they were MS69-70 then I would have them all slabbed or in airtites.

If it is a secondary set of a lower grade then I use Whitman folders and 2x2's as much as possible. I just have the problem of overloading by 3 ring binders and breaking them and I do not like have a set in different containers for some reason.

For storage I try to use tubes and 2x2's as much as possible. If it is a nicer or unique coin then it goes into a 2x2 and common coins into a tube. I have just started collecting more of the copper cents and can not fit them all into tubes so the common dates go into bags and the nicer like I listed above. In due time I would love to have them all in tubes but that will take awhile.

Most of my coins are in airtites and I keep these in stackable SAFE blue coin trays. More recently I have been buying the small airtite albums that come with six pages and I've started filling them up. These work quite well for my smaller coins such as the French feudal testons and quarter testons. However the large and heavy French ecus (40-42mm sliver coins) tend to pop out of the cardboard holders as the pages are turned. I solved this problem by wedging a small bit of folded paper between the airtite and the edge of the cardboard to give a tighter fit. I am planning to buy more of these albums because overall the presentation is pretty good and they will fit easily into bank safe deposit boxes.

The majority of stuff I really care about goes into.....


2x2s and 1-1/2x1-1/2s.

Cheap, efficient and easy to put into the boxes designed to hold them. Just don't overstuff the boxes.

Tried and true really and been around forever. Think about it.

When you go to a show if it's not in a slab what are most coins for sale housed in? 2x2s and 1-1/2x1-1/2s.

Those cheap little suckers have been the workhorses for decades. Just be carefull of the staples.

i keep my duplicate low grade silver coins in rolls, high grade and rare pieces I put in plastic 2x2s and and everything else I keep in folders or cardboard 2x2s

I just switched to Dansco albums from the standard Whitman albums. I am not sure what took me so long to do this (other than price), but it makes a great difference in viewing the coins.

I mostly use plastic sandwich bags and paper rolls as the majority of my coins are circulated silver. I also have a couple of the plastic tubes for some AU coins I have.

I prefer 2 x 2's for coins I want to protect. While I have coin albums to include Dansco's I recognize that they will not protect the coins as well thus I never use them for long term storage. I use tubes for common date coins (usually pennies and half dollars) in au/bu condition. Should the value of these coins go up I will of course transfer them to 2 x 2's. For those of you using Dansco books for long term storage I would highly encourage you to keep them in ziploc bags as well as it will reduce the chance of coins being toned/damaged while in your books. Sincerely, John Leckrone