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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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I almost missed your reply Xshift! Those tubes sound handy for storing excess (like all 2010's, all whatever) The jackets idea you mention sound like they might work for me. Do you have a link to some so I can see what they look like and know what you mean? I'd like many coins separated individually protected, not getting bumped and dinged by other coins or what have you. If I end up offering any for trades or sales I'd want them to keep their condition. I guess I am getting kind of serious about this hey. Is this not inevitable? An addict has to start selling sometimes to keep buying. Right?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Scooby Due, forgot to reply that I only started putting the coins in these paper jackets this past month, so no, they haven't been exposed to the paper for long. But then I don't have any idea how long is too long ... ?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As a fellow addict, I'll tell you.. it's hard to sell them! I keep meaning to, myself, but although I have a few up for sale, I can't say I'm disappointed there are no takers yet. I find it hard enough to send them away even as prizes (yes, I've got it bad  ) The cardboard 'jackets' you can see here: http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/pro...-coin-flips/ - they fold in half over the coin and you staple them closed. They are very good for keeping them from dinging each other. The price they have there is for 100 - not sure what you would have locally, but if you let us know around what part of Canada you're in, some of our Canadian members may know of a local spot to find some. Sometimes you can also find them in 1.5 inch sizes for the smaller coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sounds like you need to find a local dealer. I always order my supplies online because they are a lot cheaper than my local dealer.
How are you planning to sell if don't get something like paypal for your transactions? If you were planning on it eventually, then you could go ahead and get set up and order supplies online.
You don't HAVE to, of course, but I think you would lose out on potential sales without it. We live in too much of an "I want it now" and "just in time" society.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I am an Ancients man, not a penny collector.
Having said that, it seems to me that the penny guys easily end up with a collection that if allowed to grow over the years, numbers in the thousands. If this the case, you will need lots of cardboard coin flips. Some guys have suggested storing large numbers of coins in tubes. If my collection was of the penny sort, storage in coin tubes appeals to my way of thinking, especially if you have a large numbers of coins of the same date and variety. In this case, the cost of storage would be most efficient.
With a lot of collectors, cardboard coin flips are stored in an album that have clear PVC pages. I have found that over a period of say, 10 years, the PVC from the pages will still blacken coins that are held in cardboard coin flips that have clear Mylar windows. However, you can get clear plastic pages that are not made of PVC.
The size of such a collection is required if you study such things as different varieties, or development of die cracks, or die linking. These types of studies are also important in ancient numismatics, but are usually done in museums, because of the cost of each piece.
I have seen the results of this type of study done in the British Museum, but on Byzantine Gold Solidi.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Aha, Coin FLIPS! Thats what they're called. Thank you and it's easy enough to buy a bundle or two as needed as long as I can find them local. Couldn't spring for 3000 off the top  I haven't noticed private messaging or ability to email via the forum. I wouldn't want to disclose too much private info in the open forum, but would privately to trusted members ;) I think I know what you mean about hard to part with. I felt like that about my jewelry sometimes when I used to make it, mostly earings. Parting with some of my work was a bit tough. I designed as I went. I'd have no trouble parting with a 2006 no P no L magnetic Canadian cent though. Think of all the rolls of coins and bundles of flips I could buy! I think I like the bigger ones as then loonies or toonies could also be saved in them if I found some good dates. I would have a hard time parting with some coins though. Older ones, from the 1960's back ... yeah, it would rock to have some Hudson's Bay trade tokens? That what they're called? I'm what you can call a fur trade descendent and it would be hard to part with some of that personal family connection history once I had some in my hands. Something like that I would like to pass down to my kids with the stories. I'd have no problem selling a 1922 US cent though. The stuff that has personal meaning to me, I'd want one for myself, and maybe a back up in case one gets lost, and would be ok with parting with extras. I have no personal attachment to the 1922 US or the 2006 Canadians. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you put your email address in your profile (and there may be a checkbox to select to allow members to email you) then you will be able to get private messages, which are really emails to your email address. You'll see the little email icon on most people's posts on the same line as their user name, looks like this:  If you click it, you can send them a PM (once yours is set up). |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Scooby Due, I joined epay a LONG time ago but not as a buyer or seller as yet. I was just checking out ebay. Of course I would get set up with paypal. I hear they can do that now via your bank account, which does away with needing a credit card anymore. There are a few things I have to check into to establish myself as self employed before I can sell because I'm on disability and thats effected (also need to be properly licenced to sell) I'll check into all this as I really would like to collect coins for my personal own as well as also sell if this keeps growing in this direction. I find it interesting and fun. It suits me. I'd get a total charge out of making sales and making people happy. Off topic, I'm quite mesmerized by the coins as I'm looking at them up close and personal like I never looked at coins before, especially the pennies. That copper and all the beautiful colors and tones, blends. Textures. Some incredible colours to these coins. Pretty fascinating aren't they? |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Xshift, thanks for the heads up. I'll enable my email address, PM's etc in a bit.
Sel_691: Thats interesting info, all of it. I like the look of ancients too. If I could I'd be collecting all sorts of things. I do like history even though I'm not really knowledgable. The world is an amazing place, history is, and all the artifacts, and past happenings in it. Coins seem to go back to forever and also teaches about history. Who doesn't love seeing old coins or relics going back centuries and centuries. I guess different people have different interest focuses about the past, or about "old" things. I guess a lot of people collect as investments? And less storage space needed for ancients as there are way less ancients than pennies.
I can see where tubes will be tidy and space saving if I get to hanging onto lots of pennies. If I can start selling at some point then I can keep collecting but I can't just keep buying and hoarding pennies indefinately, other than my personal collection. Pennies add up to dollars, and dollars, and dollars, and think of the weight for moving (I'm a renter.
Pssst, I'd still like to see a picture of what those "tubes" look like?
The varieties and errors really interest me too.
I have to go catch some sleep now, and will answer anything I didn't get to yet, tomorrow. Thanks for all the info people. Will go enable my PMs and email now before sleep.
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09/24/2010 04:41 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Okay, its not my night here. I'll have to try again tomorrow
to enable email/PM contacting me. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but maybe sleep will clear my head. Sorry, again.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Alright! After a day and several attempts, my email me icon is finally activated and showing so anyone can contact me now ;)
I'll disclose my exact location privately but not in the forum, but will mention so you know, that I live in BC in a small town in the S East Kootenays area (a couple or few hours to Alberta border)
For the record, I got those pennies from the neighbor today and not "about $10 worth" as he said. Try $20.34 plus a nickel, four 25/30 year old game tokens, and what looks like a blank planchet, quarter size! I scored 4 wheaties, 1920, 1944, 1946 D, 1957 and 7 - 1960's (about 100 or so US pennies all total) All from that box of pennies today. Awesome to catch a 1920 and 2 war years cents at last!
Looks like I'll end up hanging onto a lot of pennies so will need to get some of those coin rolls and some of those flips pretty quick, so I hope someone might know of a local connection for me.
Thanks for all your comments and help!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
For storage of coins I simply use the standard, everyday type of STUFF sold at coin shows and stores. I place most coins in Albums. Others go into 2x2's and those into a Whitman 2 row cardboard Box. Others where there is a multiple of the same thing, go into those plastic rolls. Albums are placed in Zip Lock Plastic bags with as much air pushed out as possible. For my famorite ones they are placed in 2 Zip Lock bags. And of course there are several jars of coins waiting to be looked at.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
I'll have to scout around town to see whats available here along these lines. You'd think with the population and this town serving a lot of smaller communities there would be more resources available for hobbies and collectors. Maybe after scouting around and if I get into buying and selling a bit online soon, I may be able to be a community connection or supplier of a few scarce items. Something to consider for future refernce ;) Business licences here to sell are necessary and a non-refundable $150 I was strongly informed by city, so a chunk at once. All the little complications to be worked out |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9164 Posts |
What I found that works good for loose coins are pill capsules that you get when you get your prescription filled.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Thanks for that tip! Pill bottles really come in handy for storing lots of things (like my beads for jewelry too) I'll have to go through my "dump everything" drawers and cupboard to see if I have any old pill bottles left over. I may still have a few and if all medications residue are completely washed out of them and they're completely dry, that sounds like it would be safe storage I hope? (coin experts would know?  ) Some of my heavier meds contain things like sulphur though, like sulphasalazine, and I'm sure I read somewhere that sulphur is very bad for coins. That was in reference to matches I think, so I'm not using my old wooden matches boxes. My pharmacy has been putting my meds in slider containers and delievering a weeks worth at a time every week, so no more pills bottles delivered. My hands are very twisted/arhritic and I have trouble with most lids, hence this nice service by the pharmacy. |
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