Enjoying A Coin Collection

Get involved in organized numismatics. Join a local club or and/or a regional or national association. Consider writing an article for a club newsletter or displaying items at a coin show.

Also, the coin club I belong to has occasional "show and tell" evenings where each of us brings a coin in and we pass it round and talk about it. Apart from getting visiting speakers in from museums and various other experts, those of us who have specialised in one aspect of collecting are invited to do short talks on their own areas of interest. This encourages research and benefits the other members. Hope this helps...

I always find these most impressive.

Not looking at your collection is a Cardinal Sin!

I don't really like some groups on social networks and collectors' meetings, because some of them seem to me to be sites for dealers to buy/sell. I rarely go to the local club, in winter I almost never go there. Now I am receiving information from PCGS, as well as from one group on social networks. It is difficult to find like-minded people, because many do not go beyond collecting commemorative everyday coins of their country. Others are interested in coins of their native country, but for me, as a lover of foreign coins, this is not suitable.

@Yokozuna and @hfjacinto great photos

I'm a retired software engineer/configuration manager. So I'm used to having things organized. So when I got my collection I did what came naturally to me, began organizing. And this is how I currently enjoy my collection.

Step 1: cataloged everything into an Excel spreadsheet.
Step 2: Put most all loose coins into 2x2's.
Step 3: Bought several 2x2 boxes to further organize.
Step 4: Bought 3 more 'containers', shown in the pics, and transferred coins to them.

The 2x2 pages I bought at a local antique store. 20 pages for $7. It holds my Ike dollars, Morgan dollars, ASE's, Kennedy half dollars, Peace dollar, Susan B dollars and several spanish coins. I still have 14 blank pages.

the currency pages I bought at Amazon, 20 pages. These hold my uncirculated proof sets. Now I can enjoy looking at them much easier. They, of course, do not fit well into the pages and can easily slip out. So I align them flush left and staple into the cellophane edge. I keep all OGP in a manilla envelope.

The JUNDUN box I just received today. As you can see, I've a bunch of coins in some kind of slab. (My Father-in-law apparently did a lot a business with Littleton.) Prior to storing them in the JUNDUN, they sat in the bottom of a cardboard box, loosely held together/organized with rubber bands. the JUNDUN turned out to be a perfect fit. the combo lock can only keep out prying eyes, however. The box can be easily cut open.

So there you have it, my way of enjoying my collection.

Looking good!