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Finally Organizing My Variety And Error Collection

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 Posted 01/22/2021  11:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverCents to your friends list
Thank you all so much and I'm glad you enjoyed reading it!

Haha John, I plan to have thousands of coins eventually! Maybe you'll get a little bit of it in the future

Sam you are correct they are varieties, but that specific binder is dedicated to RPMs, DDOs, and DDRs.

For the time being they'll remain in the error binder. Most likely eventually I'll have to split things up, putting die events in one binder, errors, in another, and variety coins that aren't your generic variety in a final one.
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 Posted 01/22/2021  11:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SamCoin to your friends list
Nice! I am hoping to improve my organization as well. Need to buy a few additional slide boxes so I can separate by denomination and errors from varieties.
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 Posted 01/22/2021  11:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverCents to your friends list
It certainly takes time and a lot of resources. Let me know how it goes!
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 Posted 01/22/2021  12:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add levelsofmadnes to your friends list
very nice SilverCents

i think I changed my method of organizing two or three times already.
i havent committed to any thing and just throw RPMs in one 2x2 box and doubled dies in another 2x2 box. but before they go in the box I take pictures so if I find that same variety, I can pull up that picture and tell if I got an upgrade saving the time of digging it out and comparing.
duplicates go in other boxes.
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 Posted 01/22/2021  2:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RobO411 to your friends list
Really nice collection and organizing. I've actually done the same. Decades are the best was to go. Doing by year means needing to move coins. Do you have another binder with list of what is in a binder? I needed to number each coin and page it's on. That helps me because of lack of memory because of what I've just looked at a couple minutes ago (lol).
Are those just for Lincoln's? Any other binders for other coins?

Again very nice.
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 Posted 01/22/2021  2:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add That Coin Dude to your friends list
Awesome Job!
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 Posted 01/22/2021  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverCents to your friends list
Thank you levelsofmadnes! That's certainly one way to go! As long as you have photos you should be in the clear!

Glad to hear it Rob! Indeed that was my mind set. Until I get to a point where I can space out each variety listing, (which might be years and years), I might just stick to this method. I do not actually, though I might want to get on that. Once I have more inventory that might be a goal of mine. They're mainly all just Lincoln's except for a few oddballs out there, such as an Indian Head cent having half of the reverse being a massive lamination, along with a couple quarter DDRs. I don't use binders for my other stuff, which is collecting silver and collecting graded toned cents which are just stored in a PCGS slab box.

Cheers TCD!
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 Posted 01/22/2021  2:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add That Coin Dude to your friends list
To you as well! I just started organizing my Ofen collection as well as my Special coins. I will post it when I am complete.
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 Posted 01/22/2021  2:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverCents to your friends list
Sounds good, looking forward to it!
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 Posted 01/23/2021  01:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sheldius to your friends list
ONLY six hours. You must be fast and efficient. I'd get lost in admiring each of those coins, and it would take me days. LOL. Great job on building that up.
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 Posted 01/23/2021  02:50 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Altec12 to your friends list
Great presentation SilverCents. And I am way impressed with the time spent organizing of 6 hours.
I have maybe one tenth of what you have displayed and I don't think I would be able to organize them in a day. I guess I tend to re-visit what I have found, and attributed, and put into 2 x 2's. Which makes for a much longer day of organizing.

Thanks for sharing..
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 Posted 01/23/2021  08:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stoneman227 to your friends list
I use the HC method of organizing ( Hopeless Chaos ) though it never seems to work that well.
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Congrats on your work there, I'm envious!

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 Posted 01/23/2021  09:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kulman47 to your friends list
Very good suggestion to organize by decade. I'm constantly moving coins around tearing my binder getting them in and out to add the next year.
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 Posted 01/23/2021  09:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oddguy to your friends list
you should be proud to have such a collection, very nice
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 Posted 01/23/2021  1:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Petespockets55 to your friends list
Congrats on your collection and getting it organized SC.

I use the same binder system but with mylar flips. The insert on the flip gives me room to add lots of info such as markers for new die stages.

LOM, the images and boxes are ok until you find an upgrade and need to find your old "Best One" to sell or give away.
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