poll about storage of coins

Hello fellow Numista members,

I'm writing to ask what people use to store their coin collection.

Do collectors here on Numista trend towards the red long boxes to store their coins in their cardboard flips or the plastic pages that typically hold 20 coins per sheet?

I'm trying to streamline my storage space and would like input from fellow numismatists.

Thank you to all in advance!

Bill

This question was first asked on August 31st 2011: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic4356.html

You can go through the large selection of treads about coin storage and to be frank all them would be sufficient for your poll.

Gotcha! Cool! Thank you!

I think these red carboard boxes are very US/ North America centric, I would have liked to use them at the beginning of my collection journey because the seem sturdy but the don't seem to fit European card board flips with the little lash so I made my own or repurposed things until I switched to 4x5 pages and binders.

Bill,

Yes I recently switched from binders/pages to those coin storage boxes for my world coins. The space, weight, and cost issues were mounting, and I needed a better solution!

The coin boxes are cheaper and more space efficient. I also have a decent A4 Lighthouse album for my “showcase” coins. That's got my pre-1900 and silver (with a couple of exceptions). 

My GB collection is mostly in folders, simply because that's how I started out collecting, and I don't have a good reason to pull all the coins out from there, flip them, and store them elsewhere. I also have an Irish collection in a binder with pages. The end result:

World coins - boxes

GB coins - mostly folders

Irish coins - binder, currently

Showcase (pre-1900, silver, otherwise interesting) - Lighthouse album (200 coin capacity)

So in short, yes, I use the coin flip boxes - they are working very nicely for me. I just number them, and it's easy to move coins around, I just store alphabetically based on country name. 

The other nice thing about a showcase album is if anyone wants to “see my coins” that's what they get, rather than me giving them a hernia by dumping a heavy binder with coins / flips / pages in their lap!

Downside is I have a LOT of spare pages, and binders… :(

Hope that helps.