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My grandfather got me into collecting coins the best part of 20 years ago now. He gave me some folders in hopes I would clean up the pocket change my parents always leave lying around and the rest is history.
One of the things we did together was assemble a (mostly) complete type set from 1876 for the centennial. This was a super cool project for me as a child to learn about the older types of coins that used to exist including things like the 20 cent piece that I had no idea existed.
However, we didn't have any proper way to store or display it at the time and it wasn't that important so we moved on to other things. I was visiting with him recently and he talked about wanting a good way to display the collection; like a hard plastic case that mint sets come in, but given the extra denominations I do not believe such a thing currently exists.
I would love to do find or create something for him to display this little adventure of ours for christmas this year. If you folks have any idea where I could get something like I describe above, or any other good suggestions for a way we could showcase the coins I would love to hear them.
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Pillar of the Community
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That sounds like a very fun joint project  Capital Plastics #429 is a Liberty Seated Type Set holster, if you have the Trade dollar as well... Otherwise I think I'd look into capsules and generic capsule display mounts. (Edit: forgot the word "fun"...) Edited by MintedNotPrinted
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Pillar of the Community
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I think you might have to spell out specifically what coins are in the set.
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Pillar of the Community
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What you've got in mind will likely call for a custom made display.
Maybe find someone who does crafting in acrylic.
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Sounds like a wonderful set. Yes, an inventory of the set would help track down a proper holder. We cannot be the first people in 150 years to seek one.  |
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Brandmeister what a stunning set of coins. That is exactly the kind of thing I am looking for, if only I could find one  |
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Jbuck I looked at cases similar to this one but they were all out of stock. A case like this one is probably the closest thing I'm going to find, it does look very nice though and I think it would work very well.
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Capitol Plastics will do a custom design, but it is a $350 minimum order.  |
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