Do You Ever Get Your Collection Organized

No, it's always going to be a work in progress.

I've decided not to buy any more coins until I select some things to sell or give away and everything I decide to keep gets properly labeled and put away.

I wonder how long my resolve will last.

I hope the roof gets done in a day or two. The noise is maddening.

Narrow your focus on what you really want to collect. Sell the coins that do not meet your collecting goals, and use the money to up grade or purchase the collectable target coins and everything will fall into place. Selling coins will also make you a better buyer of coins, and the quality of your overall collection will improve.

At one time I had my collection 100% organized and very neat looking. That was when I was about 10 years old and had just started collecting. Ever since then I have been about 50% organized. D'OH!

I keep mine really organized or I will buy something I already have plus I'm a bit of a organization freak. I collect what I call OFEC common world coins(some silver). I put them in 2x2s, print out labels and organize them by country as listed in Krause in Lighthouse binders.

My duplicates (because I sometimes buy bulk lots)I keep in small coin envelopes with the country written on them. I keep those in the 9" red coin boxes (alphabetically of course)

I have no problem organizing my 53 year collection or should I say hoard . my only problem now is space . I completely ran out of areas to store my coins .
Most of my coins are in plastic tubes and labeled ,then I have a lot of coins in 2x2's placed in cardboard boxes , also a lot of coins mainly small cents to half dollars in 3-ring loose leaf binders . and last but not least a lot of Whitman albums for my better grade Wheaties 09-40-pds and 41-58-pd .

1965-D Lincoln Cent. Nice.

You know it was printed before the Coinage Act of 1965 was taken into consideration.


It is the demarcation between Wheat and Memorial cents.

Good catch Jbuck

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It seems like when I come up with a good plan, my collection
grows .. and as was posted earlier .. space becomes a big problem. I even boxed up four boxes of coins recently,
just to get out of site .. out of mind.

This past year I thought .. just buy a Dansco for every
type of coin I might ended up with, so I would have a place.
That helped some. Most all the modern albums are full, the
ones that are not are just duplicates I have started.
Some of the classics are down to needing a few coins.
Ones like the three Barbers are over half filled.

It is the bulk coins that are harder to control.
On my next order to Wizard I will have to pick
up some more boxes and tubes.

But that takes me back to storage problems.

Examples
I pulled out all the cent coins .. for this picture.
The roll boxes are now full, I figured out cent rolls
do work in nickel roll boxes. I had extra of them.



Dollars .. I have full two album set and date set album.
For over flow dollars I was putting them into a Dealer
stock book. It has 8 pages and holds 12 2X2's per page.
It is full. I am thinking of starting another dealer stock
book and split out Morgan and Peace dollars. Or maybe start
a roll box for silver dollars .. but the only boxes I have
seen for dollar tubes are 500 coin boxes. (Ouch)

Dealer stock album


This post is getting to long to start with quarter organization

Very impressive collection .