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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
Since I have only been collecting a short while, my entire collection fits neatly in a desk drawer. I routinely pull my collection out of the drawer while sitting at the desk to look at the coins, study fine details and simply appreciate the history - thinking of the lives these coins had before they each found there way to me. For now, my collection is not very valuable (note: I've been seriously considering a $2.5 Gold Indian). So, there is no need to lock the coins up at night. They are all accessible to me whenever I feel the urge to explore.
How do you all store and display your coin and paper money collections? I am also curious how the bullion collectors display and store silver and gold?How about the Dansco albums? Where do you keep your albums?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
992 Posts |
If your collection is eclectic, or a bunch of different types, I don't recommend albums. Binders with pages to hold mylar flips are fine, but to me they look cheap, and to examine the coin the flip needs to be removed from the page. After going from albums to flips to binders over the years, I'm now using the Coin World Holders, cost per coin is about a dollar, but they enable a uniform size for storage and allow close examination of the coin. I collect world coinage, pre-1960ish, so albums don't work for me and binders can have three or four types and countries on a page, so the appearance is off, to me. Two layers of mylar over the coin just makes detail difficult to see, maybe that's just me. For currency, I'm using the Lindner banknote albums and pages. Were I starting over, I'd probably just use 5x8 mylar holders and reduce the expense of storage. Whatever you choose, think about it for a while. Storage that preserves the coin or note and allows for examination and handling without touching costs money, there is no way around it, and going from one system to another just adds expense that could be spent on a couple of nice items. |
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Valued Member
United States
70 Posts |
In my nightstand. I don't think anyone has seen my collection and very few people know I collect.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4211 Posts |
I don't display my collection and with exception of a few immediate family members and one or two close friends no one knows I collect coins. But I store them in lots and lots of (mostly) Dansco albums.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1316 Posts |
I store mine in antique a couple antique metal money boxes stored in an inherited cedar chest from my Grandma. Like others with coins of all sorts of sizes including some in slabs, the album / binder approach proves non-feasible. Its a thrill every time I get pull out the boxes and open them up, they add a lot of character to the collection :) |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
I have a large Edwardian chest with various methods of storage. My best coins are in 2x2's, my cheaper ones in binders and some in boxes... Banknotes in binders...various boxes containing jewellery and watches. It weighs enough its hard to move... I sleep next to it and its locked when I'm not there. I do worry about security but nobody really knows what I have and I live in a house in a reasonable area with somebody always home. It would probably be easier to steal the car that fight with me over my coins.  |
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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
My friend built these four cool looking 6' wooden quarter racks & screwed them inside of his closet he used 1' clear plastic tubing each holds 1,044 quarters $261 and there labeled $20 $40 $60 $80 etc !
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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
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Valued Member
Germany
303 Posts |
I've stored my coins in a 'Beba safe' drawer. I used to have them in 2x2s and in albums but got worried because of chemical ingredients in these that could harm my coins. Now, these drawers are pretty flexible, and in terms of storage-space hard to beat...
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 United States
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I have a large Edwardian chest with various methods of storage. I still rally like this.  For this who want a better look at it... https://goccf.com/t/244102 |
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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
Oops 1" Only they didn't have the oak pillars they had copper or brass rings holding the tubes to the oak those had the amounts on them .
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1627 Posts |
I keep mine in an old Machinist's chest.......   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
9395 Posts |
-- All gold and better numismatic coins are stored in safety deposit boxes. For display, I have photographs of each coin.
-- Individual numismatic coins of lesser value are stored in AirTites or flips, sorted by year in plastic bags, inside closed containers with silica gel to control humidity. For display, I have photographs of these, too.
-- Proof sets are inside their envelopes, etc., and also sorted by year in the same closed containers as the individual coins.
-- Junk silver bullion and other bulk coins are stored in coin tubes inside cardboard boxes, with no humidity control.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
Jbuck - amazed you managed to locate that old thread, and glad you approve ^^
AcesKings - That looks like its had a rough old life but looks more than sufficiently engineered for the job.
Pepactonius - I find it a bit sad that you don't get to physically see the real coins but instead look at photo's but I definitely agree that throwing a few bags of silica gel in with your stuff is a good idea.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
Store / display banknotes in mylar banknote album pages.
The same approach is used by stamp collectors, but they use stamp sized mylar flaps for their high value stamps.
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Valued Member
South Africa
331 Posts |
I put mine in pill containers in airtights I label each one with
Vitamins
Blood pressure
Cronic medicine
Stuff like that, leave them in my meds cabinet
Job done
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