Got A New Coin Cabinet

Hi Tom,

I think there is something aesthetically pleasing about seeing a big cabinet drawerful of coins - something you just don't get with other storage methods. Your picture, for example explains exactly why. I know the Peter Nichols cabinets to be "top drawer" quality. This one doesn't have a name but it's very well made - just needs some TLC.

I only use a ticket - I've always known them as roundels - for coins that I might think I will forget what exactly they are - this is one of those terrible first world problems!!

I've a small number of French Medieval deniers that I intend to store here - they will need tickets / roundels and so do my hammered Indian rupees - they are stored in another cabinet.

The roundels I use are specially bought and are made from soft acid free paper - it's about £3 for a hundred or so from memory.

I'll probably store my Roman denarii here too. Like the vast majority of denarii they've been cleaned at some stage and will absolutely not suffer at all from this type of storage - in fact they will arguably improve if I get some of that nice cabinet toning going on. There's a hundred or so of them.

Very nice!

And yes. I don't think any of my coins are likely to suffer from an occasional bit of inspection and handling either. As for the dreaded tarnishing that some collectors seem to fear, well most of my brighter coins I'd be quite happy if they developed a bit of toning and 'calmed down' a little!

A fair few of my more recent coins come with roundels from earlier collectors and I enjoy knowing they have a bit of provenance. Consequently I write tickets for all of my coins in the hope the information might be of interest to their future owners.

But then you and I do differ in scale. My main collection [currently] consists of a grand total of ...

um, 69 coins!

Bit easier to write out tickets when you buy less than 10 coins a year.



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I'm really enjoying this thread. It makes me want to get out into my woodshop and build something like this. Well, when it gets under 95°F here.

I love it :-)

Well done indeed!

I have 1 1800's cabinet under lock and key where a few of my Large Cents are.
Other than that, all are in my safe which only my wife knows about.

Yes, very nice Bacchus. Good to see an alternative to slabs and albums occasionally!

And a good thing your new purchase came with the felts. I've occasionally cut out my own and it would take me a long time to fill a cabinet like that I can tell you!

I'm looking at the construction of the cabinet and am wondering about the drawers. Do they just rest on the piece of metal that's in the recess, or does the drawer have a slot in it that accepts the metal piece? I have been wondering how to store/display slabbed coins and I think an upgraded version of this classic design could be the ticket. A friend owns an Amish made furniture store and I bet he could get something made fairly cheap for me.

I know I am late on the conversation, but what I would consider is taking the doors off and fliping them around so the sides that have the lock now are on the outside and screwed into the hinges. This way there is fresh wood on the middle where the doors swing together, and you can put install a more modern key lock to solid wood, and not worry as much about the damaged lock and the skeleton key. You also don't have to worry about finding new wood and staining it to match.

I really like this cabinet. It makes me want to build something similar in the next few years. I would also have to design a few thicker drawers down low to store coin rolls as well. And anything like this I would want some way to bolt it to the floor or wall where it stands so it can't walk off. (I know you said you had a solution to that but I don't have such a room just yet)

Thanks for sharing.

Love the photos.