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Valued Member
United States
270 Posts |
I have gotten my self into a situation that I am not sure what to do about. For the last year or so I have just been collecting all the coins I can find to complete my collections. I keep each set in an album but the rest of the coins that I have gotten I have them all sorted by year in small baggies.
I dug threw all the coins when ever I would buy rolls and look for any key dates I need or anything else that would pop out at me, but I just keep all the other ones (I just haven't had the time to really go threw all the coins and really look to see if there is anything else good in there. I would had to throw out something that could be a good keeper.)
Now I am completely stuck, I need a way that I can store my collection when I don't have the time to work with them, but at the same time I need it to look nice. This weekend we are having over 60 people in my house and the nicer it all looks the better. I have looked for a long time for stuff to use to store my collection, but I can't find anything or think of anything that would work. It would be great if it was some way of storing the collection so that when I have time I can easily and quickly pull it all out and when I need to I can put it away.
Please does anyone have any ideas in what I can do. Or how do you store your collections?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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From what you describe you want to do, the best solution might be to put all your coins into 2x2's and put them into arcival binders with 20 slot pages
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2269 Posts |
Do you want to display the coins in an album or would you like something to hang on a wall?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
Sounds like you are wondering what to store the duplicates in? You can use tubes or rolls to store them till you look them over. Keep the coins dry and dirt/dust/whatever free. The problem with baggies it the same as storing them in a canvas bag. They bag nick against each other. If they are just normal coins and not BU, then you might want to cash them in. One disadvantage of using coin rolls is that they may get cashed in by mistake. I've found full rolls of wheats mixed in with other coins in the same wrappers. So you need to mark specific rolls to save them from other coins. Any system of marking should work. You just have to remember which ones to take back to the bank.
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Valued Member
 United States
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ok thanks, that actually helps a lot. I have also found rolls that were surly someones collection, rolls that are nothing but 1939 nickels and things like that. luckily if I were to cash in the wrong ones I could easily get them back and would figure it out pretty quickly. I work at a bank and thats where I would end up cashing them in, it would sure be a surprise though when I opened the roll and found all my stuff in it. But thanks again, that whole thing was starting to stress me out, which is just silly cause it really isn't that hard of a way to get it all stored nice and neatly. I guess the thought of having to get everything ready for this weekend made my mind just quit working.
Thanks again it really will help a lot!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What I've done, as a temporary storage solution to the coins I have, but don't have time or other places to keep them, is gotten a wooden storage cabinet. Any craft store should have them- it looks a lot like a card cabinet file like you'd see in a library. Just be careful. Some pieces might be laquered, and the laquer will damage the coins if you keep them in there for long periods of time. But as a short term "hiding away" place, it's great!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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For one thing put as many coins as possible in Albums. You can buy some at any coin store or from the many dealers on line. Albums are rather expensive but well worth it for displaying. There are also those 2x2 inch flips made of cardboard and plastic. Then that would take a lot of time to install each coin in them. Your best bet is those plastic rolls. They come in sizes based on denominations and also available at any coin store, many hobby stores, on line places or at most coin shows. Place your loose coins in those and if any room left, just put a piece of Klenex in to stop the rattle of coins together. Plastic type baggies is not to smart as already noted. The coins bang together and that adds dents, scratches, etc.
Now as to displaying your coins. I don't know where you live or who those 60 people may be. However, if I were you I would find a really great hiding place for ALL THOSE COINS. Even if those people are the most honest people on Earth, all people talk, talk, talk. Word of a coin collection gets exagerated into thousands of dollars worth of coins. People just have to talk. With 60 people there are just to many chances that one or more will say something to just the wrong type of person. Might be the area I live in but we have way to many robberies, murders, etc over a coin collection. Two on the block I live. Please consider hiding those coins from those 60 people. MUCH, MUCH better to be safe than sorry.
Being a little cautious is much better than having to say "coulda, shoulda, woulda".
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Pillar of the Community
United States
882 Posts |
Go order some boxes of coins and keep the boxes for storage. Or eat a whole box of velveta cheese and use that box to put your 2X2's in.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1713 Posts |
I use a box and a bunch of pill bottles/film canisters/the plastic cases from coin shops. And a little divider originally meant to be used to sort beads...holds my coins nicely though.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2443 Posts |
I have this tall plastic craftsman tool box that I store most of my coins in. It originally was meant to store tools, but it feels like a playskool item more than a tool box. Anyways, it's on wheels so I can easily and quickly drag my collection out if I need to for some reason.
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Posted 08/28/2007 11:23 pm
