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Valued Member
United States
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I've been wrestling with wanting to have all of my Morgan and Peace dollars side by side on the same page in a notebook while trying to balance the cost of doing it. I have about 400 Morgan's of which 1/4 are certified. Probably 300 are uncirculated and about 100 in circulated and stored in Dansco and Whitman albums mostly. The Peace dollars are a complete set of which I have roughly 50. All except the 34-s are unc which is AU 55. The unc and more expensive dollars if not certified are in air-tites and CAPS albums. The common circulated dollars are in Dansco, Whitman or 2x2 flips. I'm thinking of using lighthouse pages and notebooks organizing by date, mintmark, variety etc. The air-tites will fit in silver eagle lighthouse slabs. What "slabs" are the best? I can lose the air-tites if it makes sense. Is there a less expensive option for the common circulated dollars that would enable them to fit in the lighthouse slab pages? What have others done to achieve the same goal of having certified and uncertified coins side by side? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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when presented with how to store slabbed and raw coins together my solution was to crack all of the slabs open. there a a number of holders similar to the ones used by the grading companies. ive never used them but they are out there. I'm not endorsing this seller or anything but here is an example https://www.ebay.com/itm/1245227430...BFBM2pjz76Rh |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Pmint1, you can buy unmarked slabs that can be labelled to ID the coin. There are albums designed to hold slabbed coins. By removing your coins from air-tites and self-slabbing, you could put all of your coins in the same type of album in chronological order. This company advertises in Coin Week. I know nothing of them and have no affiliation with them. But their slabs seem to be decently priced. They also sell label supplies. https://www.amosadvantage.com/PRODU...LVER-DOLLARSInordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Some love slabs, some hate 'em. Slab albums are available for storage / display, as a way out for this method of certification and protection.
Even if you had only had one method of storage / display, the collection would still be spread over several albums.
That gives justification enough to split the collection into four parts, depending on how each coin is currently protected / displayed.
Such an approach gives rise to the least disruption as to how you store / display, and would be the most cost effective solution.
Another issue which may need attention is security, which can affect how you store / display your collection.
As an example, I have only a tiny safe. My response to this situation is to store only the most valuable coins in the safe, the rest of the collection is a working collection, that demands easy access.
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Valued Member
 United States
465 Posts |
I've used the lighthouse "quickslab" before. An advantage to them is I can get the insert for silver eagles and the air-tite Morgan's can squeeze in protecting from the "inert" foam for extra protection. I'm not wild about the looks of the Lighthouse slabs but I'm afraid the other brands won't accommodate the air-tites".
Mainly I wondered what other people do. I'm not willing to crack out the certified coins until a better and more consistent certification system becomes available. But that's a different topic.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is quite a collection! That would make for quite a lot of lighthouse notebooks storing every coin in a slab like that. I keep all my slabbed coins in intercept shield storage boxes in the safe. Then I pull a few of them out ever few weeks and display them on my desk. All my raw coins are in 2x2's or in Dansco/Caps album's.
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Valued Member
United States
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I've almost decided to separate the nicest one of each into a slabbed collection and keep the rest stored as the are in air-tites, caps, Dansco, Whitman and 2x2.
The problem with this approach is an ms-63 dmpl a nicer coin than a ms65?
I'm probably over thinking it and should just go by eye appeal to me.
It's not like I'm getting rid of any of my dollars.
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United States
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I'm probably over thinking it and should just go by eye appeal to me. It's not like I'm getting rid of any of my dollars.  |
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