Most Attractive Way To Display Your Coins?

I collect by date, rather that by type, so it's virtually impossible to find pre-made holders that fit my needs.

In other words, I arrange my coins in my albums with all the dates together for all the denominations and mint marks I own.

For me it is more fun to travel through history seeing all the coins that existed for a given date. As an example, 1866 is a super cool set with Indian Head cent, Two Cent, Three Cent Silver (that was a tough one), Three Cent Nickel, SL Half Dime, Shield nickel, SL Dime, SL Quarter (still need one of those), SL Half Dollar, and a nice PCGS SL Dollar. I don't foresee adding gold to THAT date.

Since I do collect the coin - not the holder - I have about equal numbers of raw (unslabbed) and encapsulated coins.

I set them up with the common 20 pocket pages for the minor coins, 12 pocket pages for the dollars, and 9 pocket pages for the encapsulated coins.

I intersperse the pages so that all coins can be as close to their date as possible.

I also use the very thick padded 3 ring binders with the zipper so that I never have to worry about one of the coins slipping out of it's page and disappearing down a rabbit hole.

I've also made special holders out of acrylic for special sets that are all slabbed. It took a while to design the cutouts so that the slabs didn't move once they were placed in the holders, but it did work, eventually (and a couple of full sheets of acrylic later).

Collectors who love their collections want to have them displayed nicely for THEMSELVES, more than for anyone else. The majority of us don't have too many friends or family who care anything about our collections (other than their value).

So the time and money spent is for our own personal satisfaction. Collectors are creative. You have to be creative to make all the decisions about what to buy and when and for how much. Having all those coins in their own home is probably more important to US, rather than to anyone else.

For those that just put them in a safe willy nilly, they are just as happy because that is THEIR decision, not one forced on them by someone else.

In short (which I rarely am), how you display your collection should be a choice you make with the end result being that when you look at your coins AND YOU ARE HAPPY.

I thought I was the only one who organized by date, rather than type. In my case, I do have all the more expensive coins in various safety deposit boxes, but I photograph each coin before it goes off to a bank vault.

The manually-renamed filenames for each pic start with the date or date range (except for restrikes). I place links/shortcuts to all these images into a single folder so get sorted by date, country, and then denomination (by default).

Unfortunately, there's currently a hodge-podge of old film pics, direct scans, and digital images of various ages. At some point, I'm hoping to have a complete set of uniformly-processed digital pics for each worthwhile coin.

Great photos GR58~!! Nice displays also TBone! And yes it isn't a party till goldrush shows up. Nice stuff

Need more pics!