) I decided I needed some albums to store and sort the coins.
Posted 12/07/2007 01:53 am
G'day, I bought a similar album in Melbourne in 1966, to hold my pre-decimals. They're all still as good as the day they went in.
Nowadays, I use 2x2 for my more valuable coins, and have started moving my old predecimals over. I get the 20-pocket pages, and still use the same album cover.
The difficulty I have is finding the nut & bolt to hold them together. These are variously called (depending upon who you talk to) "Chicago Screws" or "sex bolts". The only place in Darwin with them is a furniture workshop. They only have them in one size, which is OK for my purposes at the moment.
Another solution that I have used is to put my 2x2 into fishing tackle boxes. K-mart sell one made by Plano that holds them perfectly: it has about 16 compartments. I find that the albums become unwieldy if you put too many pages in them. The boxes are good for a collection that is still growing.
I found the "push-in" albums unsatisfactory: some holes were too small; others too large. And difficult to remove a coin when you obtained a better example.
Apart from that, collecting coins from circulation is an inexpensive way to begin. I found an incuse Millenium 50-cent a few weeks ago, and I'm still chuffed about it.
And welcome to the forum.
Peter in Darwin
Nowadays, I use 2x2 for my more valuable coins, and have started moving my old predecimals over. I get the 20-pocket pages, and still use the same album cover.
The difficulty I have is finding the nut & bolt to hold them together. These are variously called (depending upon who you talk to) "Chicago Screws" or "sex bolts". The only place in Darwin with them is a furniture workshop. They only have them in one size, which is OK for my purposes at the moment.
Another solution that I have used is to put my 2x2 into fishing tackle boxes. K-mart sell one made by Plano that holds them perfectly: it has about 16 compartments. I find that the albums become unwieldy if you put too many pages in them. The boxes are good for a collection that is still growing.
I found the "push-in" albums unsatisfactory: some holes were too small; others too large. And difficult to remove a coin when you obtained a better example.
Apart from that, collecting coins from circulation is an inexpensive way to begin. I found an incuse Millenium 50-cent a few weeks ago, and I'm still chuffed about it.
And welcome to the forum.
Peter in Darwin
