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New topic about your best arrangement : techniques & materials for keep your banknotes collection in excellent condition.  |
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Materials from Leuchtturm.com are they a good reference ?
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Absolutely. This company is known as "Lighthouse" in the US and only sells the best quality worldwide.
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UP ! Thank you Coinfrog and sorry for my late answer, back to holidays  After see prices on the web I've decided to make my proper holders with rigid transparent paper for $0,14 by banknote.  I don't know if is the best way for me with appromatively 1000 notes to classify  |
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Looks good, marccollection. With 1,000 notes, almost any album-based solution you try is going to be pretty bulky. I purchased a Vario binder and 3-pocket pages for my (ungraded) world currency and it works well. For graded/holdered notes you might have to scale down to 2-pocket pages to fit the holders. The binder I have will hold up to 100 pages, but with the added thickness of the graded notes, you probably would have to drop to 75-80 pages per album. 2 pockets per page @ 75 pages per album = 150 notes/album. 1000 notes / 150 notes/album = 7 albums. You can see some photos of my setup in this thread. Is it the "best" setup? Well, it works nicely for me. I still need to work on annotations or an index w/ page #'s. A more economical method with the number of notes you have would be note storage boxes that can be found on Wizard. |
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Hi CelticKnot and thank's for your answer / thread informations.
7 albums x 75 pages ($1/page) = $525 + albums cost, too expansive for my situation.
I still do not know if I will keep the collection for several years or sell before two years, currently the notes are stocking in boxes.
Other problems : I am a perfectionist, I fear "Housebreaking", disaster : water (humidity), folds (accident),
but most importantly I want to respect my father's collection.
So I continued to ask me questions hoping to find the best way.
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05/10/2016 07:05 am
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After see prices on the web I've decided to make my proper holders with rigid transparent paper for $0,14 by banknote. @marccollection, what exactly is "rigid transparent paper", and why are the holders so tall compared to the size of the note ? |
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Hi Steve I buy this type of paper :  and I have chosen an "global" size who include my large notes from the world : Germany, Russia, & others. Do you think this is to "towering" or difficult for classification/storage ? Edited by marccollection
05/10/2016 08:38 am
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Is that kind of transparent plastic archival safe? Only certain plastics are good over long durations as some chemicals that are released by them will harm their contents. I would only trust mylar since I have had other plastics damage my coin in the past and presume the same could occur with my notes.
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A very good point from @DavidUK. You want and need for your collectible paper currency to be safe while stored. A friend of mine, Clay Irving, has compiled a list of different materials and brand names to look for when considering long term storage of your collectible paper currency. you can view it here; http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/sleeves.htmlAs far as the physical size of your holders, personally and respectfully, I would want them to mimic a professional currency holder in height. I like your labels.....listing the series, type, serial number, and signature combinations. I would suggest adding the Friedberg number and front and rear plate numbers. |
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Good discussion. I keep my TPG notes in the large Lighthouse albums because they present the notes so well (with the black interleaves) and offer quick note-to-note comparisons. Great for show-and-tell. But agree they are bulky and expensive. I keep my ungraded notes (hundreds and hundreds I suppose) in simple archival sleeves in basic currency storage boxes, arranged first by type and then by denomination, using home-made tabs. I don't put any info on the sleeves, just in my inventory file, which I print out every month or so. To be honest, I spend little time looking at my ungraded purchases, which is kind of troubling. |
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Hi there, yes DavidUK this is a interesting point. Thank you SteveInTampa for the link/infos about the materials. My sleeves are in PVC... Extract from Clay Irving website :Quote:
I would be suspicious of anything generically called "plastic", "acetate", "vinyl", or "PVC" (even if the PVC contains no plasticizers or stearates) holders. Sometimes, though, with a little research, you may find the "hard plastic" currency holder is made of acrylic or polystyrene, which should be fine. So I think this is not the best way for me BUT, I have found same materials used by my father with high humidity condition and NO problem, yet I don't want take risks. _________________________________________________________________ Quote:
I keep my ungraded notes (hundreds and hundreds I suppose) in simple archival sleeves in basic currency storage boxes... What is the type of sleeves use you Coinfrog ? Pictures from your arrangement is possible ? |
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Marc - You say your sleeves are PVC. That is exactly what you DON'T WANT! PVC (Polyvinylchloride) "weeps" chemicals over time that can seriously degrade your notes. Whatever you choose to put your notes in must say the following:
"Materials contain NO PVC and are safe for archival storage"
Short answer: You MUST NOT use anything with PVC. I'm not an expert, but experts I know say that PVC is one of the worst choices you can make for either currency or coin storage. I wish you luck. Jack
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PVC has been responsible for many a ruined coin collection. It's technically the plasticizers (softeners) that are bad, but regardless, generally stay away from PVC.
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jack316 & CelticKnot : I had no idea of the real danger about the PVC, really... so thank you for your precious advices.
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