What Kind Of Binder Do You Use?

I, personally, do not use a binder because most of my coins are in albums or folders... I use those blue whitman boxes for most of my 2x2's, world coins, and my coins that are not really worth putting into my main coin "album". My good coins are put in a standard 60 coin 2x2 "album" or "binder", that I think witman makes...

I don't use name-brand albums/binders because I don't like being told how to collect. And I can put coins in any order I feel like.

I use D-Ring binders. And that goes for paper notes (school) too, but it goes double for plastic/vinyl coin sheets. If you don't know the difference between O-Ring and D-Ring, the O-Ring will leave your sheets all curved into each other, but the D-Ring lays them flat on top of one another. Also you can close the D-Ring binder faster. Often times I'll be at a coin show and the dealers with O-Ring binders use clear tape on the metal rings to "fix" them up because pages start to escape the binder when closing them fast due to the coin pages being heavy, and then because I collect paper money all of their currency has ugly curves in them so I can't put them into my collection nor fathom reselling them with any type of clear conscience. If you want to close a D-Ring fast, take the back end of the binder and close/swing it to the left, not in a regular fashion left-to-right the way one would close a regular book. This "unclogs" the pages and lays them flat in a second without having to take 3-4 pages to the front each time until it's closed. I wish more dealers did it this way. Hope this helps everybody.

I use a hole mixture of different binders (though I have experienced problems with bad plastics in the past and I am very fussy now about which ones I use now)

My favourite is the Lighthouse numis type to hold 2x2 mylar flips. I haven't heard of anyone having any trouble with these yet and I haven't experienced any problems personally.

The only drawback that I can see is that they are fairly small binders... a situation has developed where I do have separate folders for different categories, but I guess this is inevitable as any collection grows.

If you are using good quality 2X2 flips and pages, then it's my personal opinion that just about any three ring binder can be used.

I use a 3 ringed binder by Avery or Wilson Jones. You can get them at the Walmart for about $4.00 or less and they are PVC free.

I use this binder...



for my coins however I use these instead.



This is just my preferred way of storing and looking at my coins..

The binders I use for everything mostly don't have names of manufacturers on them. They all, sort of are borrowed from work. All are white and of various sizes.