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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Curious for your opinions. I have a modest collection of UK £sd coinage. Right now they reside in 2x2s in clear binder pages. Organized roughly by denomination, which I don't care for. Those of you who collect British coins, how do you typically organize? Denomination? Monarch? Metal content? Any which way? Leading towards organizing by monarch. I only go back to Victoria at this point in time. How do you guys do it?
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Mine is organised by denomination with the lowest first. Mostly because they're the same size, more or less, and so can more easily go together.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If collecting by Date, I organize them by denomination and date, if collecting Monarch by Type, I organize them from lowest value to highest value. If collecting Victoria issues by type, I go by young head, then gothic, then jubilee, then veiled, and within each of those categories, from lowest to highest denomination.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Whether by denomination or monarch each is equal in my view although I have adopted the monarch methodology because I find this better for getting the interest of my grandchildren who can relate to better to their history lessons if things are categorised under each king and queen.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Mine are currently laid out under one of those glass-topped display coffee-table jobs, in columns. First column are crowns, starting at the top with Charles II and running down to E II (with many, many gaps); then I have the shillings ordered similarly, alas only from W III at this point. I aim to get one of each denomination for each monarch, and several when there are major variations (eg G III and Victoria shillings).
Disadvantage of this set-up is that you can only see the obverse under the glass; maybe I need 2 of each ...
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
By denomination, type and year. Not very pretty but practical... I keep both decimal and pre decimals together in this folder which I started when I was about 6, it started of with world coins and gradually turned into one folder per country (Britain, US, Australia) and 3 mixed world folders. It's also much fuller since I took this photo 5 years ago, its nice to not have any gaps but it is a problem because I don't want it to split into 2 volumes.  Edited by DavidUK
04/06/2017 08:26 am
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
190 Posts |
David ......Have any of your coins not changed in all that time .
Mainly Copper / Bronze.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2624 Posts |
Not in this album...some of the decimal 2 pence coins I fished out of change 20 years back still retain their luster.
I did have another folder which contained PVC which meant I had to acetone and cotton wool a large number of coins but this album and the Numis albums seems to be archival quality plastic.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
190 Posts |
Thanks David I did have a think as to weather they may need taking out and checking.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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For George VI and Elizabeth II pre-decimal coins I bought two Bri-Lining albums about 20 years ago, which had inserts for each year that slipped into mylar pages. I don't think these albums are available any more. For coins up to 1936 I use 2x2's and album pages and arrange them by denomination going up from my solitary quarter-farthing to my solitary gold £2 coin! My smaller coins are in similar pages to David's.
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