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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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How do you store your coins and where do you get your supplies?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Stored in 2x2s and then in plastic sheets and then in a two ring binder. Get all my supplies from at the toss of a coin in Adelaide. Very good dealer!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Mainly in dansco's and Whitman albums. I also use a lot of 2x2 holder albums. My spares I keep in 2x2's in the lighthouse plastic boxes, they hold 100 2x2's each. Other coins are stored in bulk in icecream containers. Not a real flash set up but it seems to work for me  |
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 Australia
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What enworb said, except I store them in three-ring archival binders. The binders and "coin album pages" I bought from photographic supply stores - a 2x2 is exactly the same size as a photographic slide. I've found slide pages to be both cheaper-in-bulk and higher quality than the coin pages the coin dealers sell. When Photo Continental stopped stocking the binders I liked, I found the US manufacturer and ordered a boxful. Not all coins are suitable for 2x2s; some are too worn, too discoloured or too high-relief (particularly ancient coins in that latter category). For these coins I use hard mylar 2x2-sized coin flips, bought in bulk from FORVM Ancient Coins and imported. They then go in the same album pages the 2x2s go in. Now all I need is to find some sort of efficient storage system for all these not-yet-used 2x2s, flips, pages and binders...  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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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Circulated coins stay in piles or coin baggies
Any good coin is usually put in stapled 2x2s
They are put away till I flatten the staples "made a thingy up for that now"
And then there put in purple penny's albums.
But man its is a huge task to pick through the coins and keep the best and organise into date then put away for safe keeping.
3 weeks ago I stated my threepences and I am still going, well I now have them in order of date and they have almost all been put into 2x2s and put into albums.
Good to know where I can get some cheaper 2x2s, I had bought boxes of 100 from renniks at the ANDA Melbourne show last year they were under $15 a box. I have now used them all up, and my sorting has gone to a halt.
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
841 Posts |
thanks team, interesting to see what others do I had mine in just the plastic pocket pages but I've found after having them sit for a few years (about 10) it has deminished some of the coins that are on the bottom getting all the extra weight..I think it's devalued them a little  So that's why I've changed to 2x2 (staple type) and the round and square plastic holders for the better coins. But after getting them and seeing them I like the square as they have the foam to stop them moving and to me they look a little better with the black background, I think it seems to highlight the coin a bit more. And the 2x2's I lean against each other untill I get a box for them as I think after a bit of time if you stacked the 2x2 they would eventually mark the bottom coins as well..so see I do listen     |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Australian Coin, get yourself a "flat clinch" stapler. These flatten the staples as you staple so there's no need for an extra step or a pair of pliers.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2869 Posts |
The best coins I store in a cabinet - it holds about 1400 coins The rest are in 2x2's in coin boxes Here's a picture of a a tray with some of my thalers  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
841 Posts |
Went to lismore again yesterday and got another 500 2x2(mixed lot) another 50 2x2 squares and a box that hold 100 2x2 and after getting a few more things sorted and put away I think I'll get another half dozen coin boxes. I'm finding it much easier to find and carry coins like this insead of folders that have done great damage to some coins but that's what it's all about, live and learn and if we can help a few along the way |
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Posted 02/25/2012 07:19 am
