Posted 03/26/2022 10:45 pm
Silver and bronze coins with nice luster should be kept in airtight capsules, if the value justifies it.
Very small airtight capsules can still be enclosed in Mylar/cardboard flips for inclusion in 20 pocket album pages. Larger capsules up to perhaps 30 mm overall diameter can be put it album pages directly, without the flip.
For top condition dollar sized coins, I enclose them in acrylic plastic sheet, sandwiched inside mylar/cardborrd flips for extra protection, and still include them in album pages.
Coins in slabs and coins in albums present almost mutually incompatible storage / display problems.
I say 'almost', because album pages for slabs are available, and thus it is possible to keep them all together in albums.
Unfortunately, writing information on a slab that relates to the coin is not easily possible, unless you use stick-on labels, and a printing machine that can produce them.
If you have a highly varied collection (as I do), covering ancients, hammered, milled and (mostly) modern machine struck coins, my strong preference is for 2x2 Mylar/cardboard flips in non PVC achival quality 20 pocket album pages. Each flip has the date when the coin was acquired, price paid, provenance (if relevant), and where needed, a brief description of the coin. Since All of the information about coin is on the flip, periodic re arrangement of the collection is easy, because all of the information relating to the coin re locates with it.
Because I am confident in grading coins for myself, I am personally not keen on slabs. Thus, none of my 4,000 or so coins are slabbed, although they cover a value range of $1 to perhaps $5,000 per coin.
Nevertheless, due to it's value, I may have to consider having my first coin to be slabbed by NGC, to further prove authenticity, provenance and protection, and to store the coin separately from the rest of my collection.
I have put in a bid at an internationally recognized specialist numismatic auction, for a coin in the $20-$30 thousand value range.
Very small airtight capsules can still be enclosed in Mylar/cardboard flips for inclusion in 20 pocket album pages. Larger capsules up to perhaps 30 mm overall diameter can be put it album pages directly, without the flip.
For top condition dollar sized coins, I enclose them in acrylic plastic sheet, sandwiched inside mylar/cardborrd flips for extra protection, and still include them in album pages.
Coins in slabs and coins in albums present almost mutually incompatible storage / display problems.
I say 'almost', because album pages for slabs are available, and thus it is possible to keep them all together in albums.
Unfortunately, writing information on a slab that relates to the coin is not easily possible, unless you use stick-on labels, and a printing machine that can produce them.
If you have a highly varied collection (as I do), covering ancients, hammered, milled and (mostly) modern machine struck coins, my strong preference is for 2x2 Mylar/cardboard flips in non PVC achival quality 20 pocket album pages. Each flip has the date when the coin was acquired, price paid, provenance (if relevant), and where needed, a brief description of the coin. Since All of the information about coin is on the flip, periodic re arrangement of the collection is easy, because all of the information relating to the coin re locates with it.
Because I am confident in grading coins for myself, I am personally not keen on slabs. Thus, none of my 4,000 or so coins are slabbed, although they cover a value range of $1 to perhaps $5,000 per coin.
Nevertheless, due to it's value, I may have to consider having my first coin to be slabbed by NGC, to further prove authenticity, provenance and protection, and to store the coin separately from the rest of my collection.
I have put in a bid at an internationally recognized specialist numismatic auction, for a coin in the $20-$30 thousand value range.
Edited by sel_69l
03/26/2022 11:35 pm
03/26/2022 11:35 pm
