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Pillar of the Community
United States
2200 Posts |
I made a nice box, stained rosewood on the outside and lined in the inside with green felt, for all of my single coins.
I'm trying to decide how I want to display them. It's been a long time since I considered such a thing, and was curious as to how everyone prefers to do it. Obviously, I want it to be several steps up from a cardboard 2x2 holder.
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Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
I "display" nothing.
Please consider this viewpoint.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
5172 Posts |
I go to my university and show them to the other students. They're usually in ziplocs anyway (the ones that aren't in 2x2s), so I just take a larger ziploc and put all the assorted ziplocs and 2x2s there. A few of my coins are in albums, but it's mostly nothing interesting so I rarely bring the albums along.  ...wait, that wasn't what you meant by "display", was it? [that should've been a sarcastic smiley if this forum has one] |
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Australia
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Obviously, I want it to be several steps up from a cardboard 2x2 holder. And what's wrong with 2x2s?  I use them for coins I "display" at coin club meetings, and for when I show my collection to non-collectors (such as the students at a Conversational English class I volunteer at). The only times I don't use 2x2s to display coins is for competitive displays at coin shows. 2x2s let you write any important information on them that might identify specifics about a coin that might not be obvious to people not familiar with those coins. They let the coins be handled easily without fear of fingerprints or other incidental damage from mishandling. Finally, if worried about theft, a 2x2 is a lot harder to secretly palm and pocket than an unprotected coin. Quote:
... and lined in the inside with green felt...  Aieeeee! Green felt! Run away! Sorry. That's an instinctive reaction I have now.  Back in the 1970s, the Franklin Mint sold proof coins in pseudo-felt-lined cases of numerous colours, including green. Unfortunately, the plastic the felt was made of was of the bad kind, that decomposed after a decade or two into an acidic goo which ruined the coins. From my experience, the green pseudo-felt was one of the nastiest. I'd want to make darned sure your felt really is coin-safe before putting it in contact with your coins for prolonged periods. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
Australia
64 Posts |
i know its not cheap but I use the lighthouse square capsules and the pull out draws to match for my favorite coins. I also print details of the coin and cut it out and slip it under the coin caps. I'm a bit anal and I like that I can have coins of different sizes in the same sized capsule.
for other coins, I use 2x2
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1211 Posts |
Dave, are you saying that for security reasons, you choose not to show what is in your collection?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I think thats what he is saying, but if not I will say it for him.
I dont buy slabbed coins so all of my collection fit into the catagory unslabbed. Some are in airtights, some in mint packaging, a small number are in 2x2's and a few of the larger ones are in 3 velvet boxes which hold 16 coins each and I hope will not rot, and the vast majority though are in binders.
I would not consider openly displaying my coins or making some kind of showpiece around them, if I want to show something off I can post a picture here where it can be appreciated by people who know, but nobody has seen my full collection apart from me.
Collecting for me is a personal hobby so I don't need to display anything and why tempt anyone or show that it is worth robbing my house? The only person who might have an inkling is the postman who regularly delivers packages which say "numismatic" on them; apart from that nobody has a clue that I have any items of value and thats the way it will stay.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
I have long wanted to obtain those display boxes which are used many dealers. One such dealer has offered to give me his old one. Its design makes it difficult for him to take out a coin for a customer to take a closer look. He does so many times at a show. And he does many shows. For my purposes, it would be used to set up a temporary display for my family and to bring to a coin show for display in one of the locked cases. It would not be a problem for me to put up with its awkward design a few times a year. 2X2s, flips, airtights, loose in a tube. I have several coins worth between five and eight hundred dollars each sitting in a Dansco Album. Every one of the following coins could be put into a case and then return to their respective homes. Every coin gets the holder that is appropriate: no more, no less.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10034 Posts |
In a safe deposit box. I want my kids to get them, not some pawn shop.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
With great respect Earle42,
What makes you think that your kids will NOT take them to a Pawn Shop, even if they find them in a safety deposit box?
Have you taught them what is important and what is not?
Have you explained to them WHY you take such great effort to protect them?
Without proper education, it does not matter how you protect your coins.
At the very least, include a letter in the safety deposit box along with the coins. Instructions as to how to sell sell them
if they wish, or which coins that you would like to have passed on to the next generation.
Any coin(s) which belonged to your ancestor(s) is(are) prime candidate(s) to be kept and passed to your kids' kids.
Sorry, but this subject is one to which I will ALWAYS address the importance of instruction and family history.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What makes you think that your kids will NOT take them to a Pawn Shop, even if they find them in a safety deposit box?
Have you taught them what is important and what is not?
Have you explained to them WHY you take such great effort to protect them?
Without proper education, it does not matter how you protect your coins.
At the very least, include a letter in the safety deposit box along with the coins. Instructions as to how to sell sell them
if they wish, or which coins that you would like to have passed on to the next generation.
Any coin(s) which belonged to your ancestor(s) is(are) prime candidate(s) to be kept and passed to your kids' kids. I have no one to leave coins to that have any idea of what is what with coins. Yes I've tried but it's sort of like getting a fish interested in trees. Or a teenager to not like cars. Some things are just ment to be. The way I look at it is after I'm gone, I will probably, maybe, not worry about my coins. Nor my clothing, furnature, cars, tools, flashlights, etc. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2200 Posts |
Clarification: When I say "display," I mean what kind of holders do you put the coins in.
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Pillar of the Community
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carl, Quote:
I have no one to leave coins to that have any idea of what is what with coins. Have you considered putting it in your will that the coins go the the operators of CCF, who subsequently would auction them off to its members, with the proceeds going to site. I'm completely serious. I know many of us would appreciate the opportunity to bid on your vast Mercury dime collection and it would support a cause that you, presumably, approve of. |
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United States
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Clarification: When I say "display," I mean what kind of holders do you put the coins in.
You make it difficult for me to be a curmudgeon.  I am a fan of mylar flips over cardboard holders. Less work. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
4208 Posts |
On the note of not letting your coins go to a pawn shop - I'm 17 and interested in coin. My dad already gave me a little bit of stuff he collected in the nineties because he knows Ill treat it well.
There should be some way to make sure it goes somewhere nice. Short of giving it to someone on CCF, the best you could do is bury it for a more interested person to find in the future with a detector. You just cant force it on them - perhaps give them some for christmas, slowly lure them into it.
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Posted 11/28/2012 11:51 pm
