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New Member
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I started this collection exactly 10 years ago last month. I started by collecting the coins minted in my birth year, 1947. Then collected an example of all US coins minted in 1847, including an example of paper currency. Then I got the idea of collecting coins from 1747, 1647 etc. Eventually, I couldn't find coins dated with the year XX47, so I decided to switch over to collect coins that were minted during the year a specific historical event took place. I've gone all the way back to the 1st century and a bit older. I'm attaching a photo of a sample page. The paper is printed with information, the coins are in flips and for protection, I slipped the page into a plastic sheet protector and then into the album. Now I want to redo the collection, and while keeping things safely, I want to be able to view the obverse and reverse of the coins without pulling the whole page out of the sheet protector. If any of you have suggestions on how to organize my collection, I'd love to hear them.  *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Possibility: Take a clear 2X2 flip and cut it into two halves. Store one coin in each half, then insert them one at a time into a standard clear segmented sheet for a three-ring binder. Use the next slot or slots for an insert(s) that describes the coin. Then go on to insert another coin in a clear flip and so on. You'll now be able to turn each page and view the reverse of each coin.  to the CCF! Edited by Coinfrog
04/17/2020 6:54 pm
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@seadog92, if you haven't already, then I suggest that you get in contact with another CCF member: collects82. I'm pretty sure that the two of you have done pretty much the exact same thing, except for the last two digits of the years of your collections. Also, I don't think that this is the best place for this thread so I'm going to move it over to the main coin forum. Added: this is such a specific way to collect coins--maybe you two are related?  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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New Member
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Thank you for the suggestion Coinfrog, but I'd like to be able to keep my "historical" verbiage. What I want to do may not be possible, but I'll keep searching for a way to do it until my head is bloody from hitting it against a wall.
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@SD, sorry but I should have give you a little more detail about how to contact him. I think that you can message @collects82 by clicking on the little icon that looks like a sheet of paper with an envelope above one of his posts.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You could take a photo of the other side of each coin, print them out, and paste them on your pages.
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Pillar of the Community
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If I understand your organizational problem, you might be able to do something with clear pages designed for bills.
The top slot could hold the printed material.
The slot below it, you could rig a way to combine printed material plus coins in 2 x 2s (maybe by cutting up some rows off of 2 x 2 pages and inserting them?)
Repeat.
It's not perfect, but might be a starting point.
I have thought about doing something similar for a part of my collection that can use curating.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@seadog, here is a mock-up of what I was trying to explain in that last post. You start with clear pages that can fit 4 banknotes. Each slot will be 2 inches high, so you can also fit 2x2s. In this example, for the row that holds coins, I have cut a row of 2x2 pockets from a sheet, and inserted it in the bill pocket to hold the coins so they won't move around. I think this system will wind up being far less efficient than the one you have (I am guessing you would need twice as many pages, possibly more, to display the same amount of info + coins), and you would basically have to start from scratch. But it is a system that allows display of text and coins with the coins visible from both sides.  Edited by tdziemia
04/19/2020 10:31 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi, I figure I have to chime in! You've picked the best way to collect! The result is a collection that covers all of history!
My collection is currently old antique cashboxes, in their 2x2s and slabs, and notes are saved in a excel spreadsheet, so not sure I'll be the most help. Occasionally I think about how I can organize these into a binder but I do't get far.
A couple times I've thought about doing custom binder pages, but MOQs make me pause. My background is third party manufacturing.
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04/19/2020 11:02 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How the heck did you get FIVE 1482s?
I'm still trying to get my first!
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm still trying to get my first! The 1482 half schwertzgroschen from Zwickau-Schneeberg is pretty common, so maybe you can find one of those? |
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