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Bedrock of the Community
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Anyone have ideas for storage/display of the ATB 3-coin sets? The backer card is an awkward size, although 4 might fit on some kind of 8x10 or trading card album page if you take them out of the cellophane (or whatever that thin plastic packaging is). Probably looking at multiple albums due to the thickness of the coin capsules even if you were to somehow overlap them. I don't see any kind of display case or options on the U.S. Mint web site, of course. Maybe a wooden photograph box...hmmm... similar to this, perhaps... http://www.photoframesplus.com/b49r...qoPAodv2sA7AThoughts? Looks like 3-5 years' worth of the series would fill one of those up, so you'd need 2 or 3 of them. Of course if you have any woodworking skills you could make this or something like it (and probably much better) with your cutoffs from other projects. As for the sets themselves, at least they started sprucing up the backer cards with photographs of the parks. 2010 and 2011 issues were rather spartan. Just like the Mint to change direction mid-program. I wonder why they didn't include the circulation S coins in this years' sets. Perhaps it was too late for the 2012 issues by the time they came up with the idea for S-circ coins. If those appear in 2013 wonder if these will become 4-coin sets or if they'll replace the proof with S-circ. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nothing, eh? Am I the only sucker that collects these?
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Nothing, eh? Am I the only sucker that collects these? Do not be so hard on yourself.  I am all about the Dansco album, but for these, I do like the wooden photo box idea.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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When I get the 3 coin set I just open them up and put them in my album. I just couldn't think of a way to store them conveniently so I just gave into temptation and opened them up.
Next year I won't be ordering these sets at all. I figure that I can $20 by ordering the silver and clad proofs along with the uncirculated annual coin set. Also, this will allow me to fulfill the 2013 pages much earlier than by waiting for the 3 coin sets to be issued.
I'm just getting impatient waiting for the the 3 coin sets to be issued on the mint's schedule. Besides after looking into the uncirculated sets all these coins are issued in the individual 3 coin set along with a clad proof. So I am thinking that this will help me in the long run.
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CelticKnot -
I only have one of the 3-coin sets, although have thought about collecting the series, and like many wish they would have made the cards from the earlier years more attractive. I think what is holding me back is finding a good way to store and display.
Re: the other thread about albums for first-day coin covers, I haven't forgot -- the order hasn't shown up yet.
Regards,
Brian
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thanks, jbuck, ghostrider, and bkprewitt. I lost track of this topic but found it again looking for bkprewitt's thread on storing FDCC's. :)
@jbuck - I'm chuckling imagining a Dansco large enough for 50 of these things. :) I think I'll give that wooden photo box thing a shot, or build one myself. The stock in those sets is thick enough to prevent sag or bending of the set (especially if there's enough of them packed in there to prevent leaning), so standing them on their edge shouldn't be a big deal. If it's a nice enough box it could even be displayed on a shelf somewhere. Hmmm... maybe a good time to practice inlay techniques.
@ghostrider - yeah, storage is a pain. I wonder if they'll do a 4-coin set next year (assuming the business strike S quarters are still minted) and change up the form factor... bleah. Or maybe they'll take the proof out of the set and replace it with the business strike.
@bkprewitt - You know, for all the searching I've been doing for FDCC albums that we've been talking about in another thread, it seems that there are postcard albums along the same lines of the FDC/FDCC albums that might do the trick for this. Will keep searching.
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Pillar of the Community
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I dont waste the time or money on these sets as we buy the mint sets and the proof sets AND the rolls. So between all those I just fill a Dansco for the four coins, and 5 Lighthouse albums for the P&D sets. I would agree with ghostrider, just take them out of the packaging and put them in a Dansco. If you want to keep them in the OGP, then that post card album you mentioned likely would do the trick.
Now, here is the other question. What the frack am I supposed to do about the special S mint issues? I guess get a blank page to put in the back of the Dansco.
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As long as the special S-mint issues are for 2012 only, there will be enough blank holes on the last page for them (the 7145 has eight holes on the last page, the 8146/8147 combo should have 16 holes on the last page of the 8147).
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Bedrock of the Community
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As long as the special S-mint issues are for 2012 only... Will definitely be interesting to see what next year brings. For some reason I can't think that the U.S. Mint would stop a product if it is profitable. |
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Personally, I was of the opinion that the S business coins would be a shoe in since the mint seems to be running out of special issues of silver eagles and since they do need the money for the government. After all, they appear to be the only profit center that the government has.
I looking forward to having these mintings around for the continuation of the series. I'll probably be purchasing these in rolls once the calendar year is completed, but I'll wait on that for right now.
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Bedrock of the Community
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There are a couple of camps on this -- and I'm in your camp, ghostrider. I like the S business strikes. However, if they continue I really want albums to differentiate between multiple strikes per mint (so there'd be a hole for S, S proof, and S Ag proof).
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I looking forward to having these mintings around for the continuation of the series. If they continued this for the rest of the run, my biggest sticking point would be the two years (2010 and 2011) that they did not have these coins. It makes the set uneven.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 , jbuck. That would be very disconcerting to OCD people such as myself. |
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If they continued this for the rest of the run, my biggest sticking point would be the two years (2010 and 2011) that they did not have these coins. It makes the set uneven That would aggravate the snot out of me as well. But at the same time, just one year of issue would be more aggravating. I am hoping they continue for the rest of the series. And, as mentioned, they ARE making money on them. |
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We probably wish they had never made them at all. However, they make for an interesting conversation, so I will have to be happy with that. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree with you jbuck. I wish they either didn't make them at all or started making them in 2010.
Now if they also made enough for circulation and released them through the Federal Reserve, then that would have helped to make more collectors of them.
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