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I am trying to decide if I'd rather store my slabs in a wood grain finish box with slots for each slab or a metal case with removable trays. Both are Lighthouse products.
The cost is similar so that is not the issue. The slab box is slightly more compact but not by much. So that is not a big factor. Both products hold about the same number of slabs.
With the box, you don't really see the coins but they are all available from the top all at once.
With the case and trays, it is easier to see the coins but you have to take all the trays out to find stuff unless it is the first of six trays.
I have never had either so cannot decide which route to go. Looking for feedback. The coins are all part of the same denomination set. Edited by punman
09/21/2015 7:29 pm
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I may have the box you're talking about and I like it fine except it doesn't fit in my safe (too long)! I got a deal on it from my LCS, otherwise I wouldn't have likely bought it. It's pretty nice though.
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Edited by punman
09/21/2015 9:13 pm
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The case looks like something you would travel with to a show or something. If it were me and we were talking home storage I think I would go with the box
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Not for travel at all, just for the home.
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Do the square slabs really sell for $100,000,000.00?
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Since you've eliminated the usual items - price & space - it comes down to how do you want to access your collection?
If you are, for example, going to take them out one at a time and work on them to, say, attribute die marriages, VAMs, etc. you may find the box easier. Open and they are right there to pull out one at a time.
If you are going to want to take them out, admire them as a group and have room to spread out (say the dining room table), you may find that the trays make it easier.
Not much help, am I - sorry...
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I've posted this before but thought I'd post it again. I'm a little different in that I put all my coins that are not slabbed into Coin World premier slabs. Easier for me to handle. It does take up space. I was lucky enough to find an antique Letter Press Sorter Cabinet made by Hamilton in 1902. This cabinet has 20 drawers with dividers and I can fit 72 coins in each drawer. Here's a few pics.     |
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Since you've eliminated the usual items - price & space - it comes down to how do you want to access your collection?
If you are, for example, going to take them out one at a time and work on them to, say, attribute die marriages, VAMs, etc. you may find the box easier. Open and they are right there to pull out one at a time.
If you are going to want to take them out, admire them as a group and have room to spread out (say the dining room table), you may find that the trays make it easier. What you have just said is my dilemma. It is my Canadian Silver Dollar collection - just over 40 coins with some varieties although there are a few more of those I could collect. I have them in an album right now with 16 to a page. Some of those coins were ICCS graded coins in soft pouches that I opened. There are two graded coins in hard slabs not in the album. I am buying Lighthouse Everslab capsules to put the album coins in. The size will match PCGS and NGC holders. So I will end up with 42 coins from 1935- 1967 all housed in similar slabs. What I don't like about the album is I can't pick up a coin and look at it close without removing it from the album. The slab makes that easy. I'd like to be able to from time to time arrange the coins by condition and not year. Maybe line up graded versus non graded to compare. Just trying to figure if it is the box system or tray system that would suit my needs better. |
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Since I don't own a safe that would not be an issue for me.
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punman, I've seen that Lighthouse 50 slab product, didn't seem very sturdy.
srs77, that's wicked nice, very old school, well done!
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punman, I've seen that Lighthouse 50 slab product, didn't seem very sturdy. You think it would eventually break down or fall apart? I would not be transporting it out of the house. |
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that's wicked nice, very old school, well done! Thanks A&R... It will eventually hold over 1,400 coins in slabs... have a long way to go to get there but it works quite nicely. Would love to find another... |
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