How Do You Organise Your Collection?

Dansco Albums straight across the board for me.

yah, I kinda figured that I was probably a bit too drunk when I wrote that Gouda-bit ... oh well, I made myself laugh out loud while I was typing it, so job well done! ... anyway ...

For the record, I don't actually keep my coins in wheels of cheese ... well, not the good ones

I don't, its mostly just all over the place. I have a few binders that are generally organized by date though...

Reading this, it appears that many of you are in the USA.

Here in Britain, we have an advantage. Decimalisation in 1971 gives a definate changeover point, as does the recoinage of 1816. Another advantage is that there is only one Royal Mint, although in the past a few coins have been supplied by the Heaton and Kings Norton mints (H or KN mintmarks). I must add that I only collect British coins, mainly only circulation issues, but covering 2000 years.

Most are in loose-leaf four-ring clear coin pages with partitions to suit the size of coin, within which they are in year order (with the few H and KN with them sorted with the appropriate year). I have two main folders, one decimal, one pre-decimal. Decimal coins start at the top left of the page in date order, and pre-decimal start at the bottom right working backwards. I have spaced them to suit all non-rare dates only, this representing real circulating coins.

Some denominations I am collecting by type - as an example, there are 28 types of shilling from 1816 to 1967 and I can add any older ones above them. These are in a smaller but similar folder. This form of collecting has now taken my fancy as it is cheaper than trying to collect every year (I'm a pensioner), and although it takes a lot of research to get the spacing right it is more interesting than just putting in year after year.

I do have a few proof and other sets and these are in their proper Royal Mint cases which fit nicely into a box for storing video tapes.

Bill.

I'm just starting up again after a long layoff. I am a naturally disorganized person, but, I love things to be organized if that makes sense.

I am going all Dansco albums, except for the Whitman Lincoln albums I bought in the 70's and a few slabs. I'll need to figure out how to store slabs, don't have any yet, but hope to soon for the few high value keys I plan on acquiring.

Any coins that do not fit in a Dansco type album will be put in a Dansco 7000 album that holds 2x2s. I am going to periodically get rid of all of the duplicates.

I downloaded an excel spreadsheet that I am customizing a bit to keep track of what I have and what I need. This spreadsheet will also allow my family to easily and efficiently dispose of my collection if needed.

I organize my collection by country.
Inside the country by monetary system (before Euro, since Euro).
Inside the monetary system by denomination.
Inside the denomination by catalogue number.
Inside the catalogue number by year.
Inside the year by mint mark.
Inside the mint mark by variety.
Did I forget to mention anything?