Quote: use the common 3 ring divider between coin pages to further reduce contact problems. That also gives a solid background between pages so all you see is the top page, not more pages underneath that confuse the view.
Thanks for that suggestion, moxking! That never occurred to me.
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Try to keep the bigger and heavier coins on the bottom rows, reserving the top rows for smaller and lighter coins. This will help prevent the pages from sagging over time. This does require you to be more flexible with your arrangements.
@mcshilling that's Ok I just feared that the package was tampered with and something was missing. Good to know it was complete
@jbuck isn't it better to put the heavier coins at the closest to the spine?
I am guessing that the further an object (in this case coins) is from a pivot (in this case the spine/binder holes), the larger the force it exerts. (Lever/leverage principle)
Quote: @jbuck isn't it better to put the heavier coins at the closest to the spine?
If you want heavier coins near the top, then that is certainly better than having them nearer the outside edge.
After having to replace some sagging pages, I started putting my heavier coins on the bottom row since the bottom of the page is resting on the same place as the binder edges for support.
I use the 4 ring binders (Lighthouse Numis I think they are called) and some of my coins are quite thick being ancient silver yet theres been no trouble that I've noticed.
I have always stored all of my coin album binders flat. They go into a box, which is pushed under the spare bed, in the computer room / 'coin laboratory' , out of the way, out of sight.
These are all great suggestions. Right now I have some 2x2 in plastic pages but most are not organized. I like the idea of notebooks with dividers. I'd like to get some heavy duty pages. The ones I just bought are a little flimsy and the top row slips out too easily.
If you are concerned that the high points of coins in adjacent album pages may bruise each other, the problem can be solved by inserting acid free thick paper interleaves between the album pages.
As a bonus the paper interleaves can be cross lined with a 2x2 grid. The 2x2 spaces can be used for writing up the details of the corresponding coin.
You can do the same sort of thing with 12 pocket slab album pages, where it may be undesirable to write on the slab itself.
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Posted 12/24/2017 9:34 pm
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