What Do You Do With Your Ancient Coins?

I have thought about displaying mine all over the house but I too am afraid of losing or misplacing. An Ionia, Miletos AR 1/24th stater got away from me and luckly I found it. OCD no way man, its a testament to a life time of study and enjoyment. I saw the 12 caesars in silver in your gallery, I am inspired.

I'm still mostly learning how to organize and store my collection. Right now I have them in 2x2 flips and in a single binder since I don't have too many coins yet. About 65 coins so far, 62 of them are fully attributed.

I leave a few of them on my desk for awhile to look at them until I receive the next order, whenever that may be. When I want to look at a coin I just pull one out once in awhile.

Steve send me the second coin its one of my favourites :)

My collection is all in one room, I don't talk about it but if anyone mentions they collect coins I tell them I am interested, used to collect as a boy and saw lots when I worked in a pawnbroker.

My collection only recently started on the ancients side of things but here is what it comprises of.

Banknotes of the world large binder
British banknotes large binder
American banknotes large binder
British coins large binder
Australian coins large binder
American coins large binder
Eurocountries last coins binder
Eurocountries first Euros binder
Numis lighthouse mixed world coins small binder
Numis lighthouse mixed world coins small binder
Numis lighthouse "wow" coins binder (this one has my special coins in it with 2x2's at the front)
Phonecards large binder
3 x velvet boxes with trays containing large coins (silver one ouncers, crowns etc)
One large shoebox containing mint boxed sets

Most of these folders are over-filled, containing too many pages and not many gaps.

Most days I paw over some part of this collection...I know where every piece is from memory but it is not catalogued. I don't think anyone except for me has seen the entire collection, in the last 10 years I showed one person a folder of banknotes.

I prefer open trays but I have more trays than will fit in my box (a big one!) so there are some packaged more compactly in paper envelopes. Because I have reasonably good photos of every coin, I do not see each one 'in hand' as often as I would like but I try to rotate things in the box so I handle each coin every year or two. Finding a bronze disease victim last year makes me want to speed up the rotation. New acquisitions go in a tray for regular handling until the try fills up and new things get sorted into the main files in the box. Being located near the bank makes visiting easier but collecting as I know it really depends on having the full set of photos. As I get older, the large photos are becoming more important to me.

What will I do with them? Not my problem; I'll be dead. I hope my grandson grows into them by the time I'm finished with them but I realize that is not more than a 50-50 chance. I only spend disposable money on them (what most of you spend on dining out, vacations or playing golf) so the loss will not be the difference between life and death. Maybe he will trade with someone else's grandson for a fossil collection more to his liking.

Yah, I guess I move pretty quickly when I'm motivated!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxbYTMNMxo

Bing => your rendition is far more accurate than mine!!

Marti

I am forever changing my collection around so I like to use a 3 ring binder. I have a small pile of about 10 coins that I have been slowly cleaning in olive oil and trying to identify them. The only ancients I display, is my collection of bronze Roman Tesserae.