How do you store and manage your collection?
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Quote: MilenaHi MayankMilena.
where do you store those sheets ?
Do you have a thermometer-hygrometer ?
some sells for less than 20$ in Canada
silica gel is good for small location for coins - a small box
Our house is 28-35 degree of humidity
Good for coins (but not enough for people in the cold season)
milena
I have kept my collection in a cool and dry place. I have filed these currency sheets in a ring file and have kept this file in a huge plastic bag. The currency sheets are of good quality, apart from little moisture inside the sheets I don't see any other problem.
I have now put all my notes in currency sleeves and then kept them in currency sleeves. Moisture remains but at least my notes are safe.
I guess it has something to do with the climatic condition in my city (Mumbai, India). Weather here is hot and humid throughout the year.
Warm Regards,
Mayank
Country: Mumbai, India
My want list: http://en.numista.com/forum/topic6830.html
Mayank
Country: Mumbai, India
My want list: http://en.numista.com/forum/topic6830.html
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Hello friends, in the past I was using Leuchtturm Numis Classic system (as you can seen on my previous post from 25-Oct-2011, 05:25PM ), but my collection was always larger and larger so I decided to use new - larger type of coin albums. I started using Leuchtturm Optima Gigant Classic system,and it is much better for me. I added some pictures to compare with Numis Classic. Optima Gigant is much larger and can cover more coins. At Numis system I had 20 or 30 coins on one page, 10-12 pages at one album. Optima covers 24 or 35 coins of same size and about 22-25 pages. Commemorative and silver coins I store in coin holders, at Numis system, as you seen on photos. If you like them, just tell me and I can add more photos of my coins.
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I like what I see, didi83. Don't wait, post more. 
Warm Regards,
Mayank
Country: Mumbai, India
My want list: http://en.numista.com/forum/topic6830.html
Mayank
Country: Mumbai, India
My want list: http://en.numista.com/forum/topic6830.html
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didi83 post a photo of your Leuchtturm Grande sheets please. 
I want to see if they look like mine, or there are various models.
PS: Now i see they are Optima not Grande
I want to see if they look like mine, or there are various models.
PS: Now i see they are Optima not Grande
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Quote: kommodoredidi83 post a photo of your Leuchtturm Grande sheets please.Hello, I did not write that it is Grande system and sheet, Grande are not with "windows" for coins, so I do not use them. This is Optima system, but larger - thicker album called Optima Gigant Classic.
I want to see if they look like mine, or there are various models.
PS: Now i see they are Optima not Grande
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This is how I store my coins:
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There are some cool ideas on this thread, that is for sure. I am looking forward to moving back home in a few months, I plan to build a custom coin cabinet during the summer out of old barn wood. Should be fun! But for now I have my coins organized in square coin tubes, large glass jars, and a small wood coin chest. Here are some pictures!
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With great difficulty, which I do hope to improve once I get my collection in some form of order, this is a pic of my entire collection, coins in folders, drawers, and larger plastic containers or sorted, everything else in tubs, tins etc; still need sorting.
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Quote: 0gramzthis way to me is very space conservative too i have 8,000 coins all shoved into 6 binders that fit neatly across one shelf on a bookstandYou have a very attractive collection.
I store mine in a chest, although the higher grade older ones get to go in holders.
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Quote: pnightingaleThis is my "working collection", I have several thousand coins, not sure how many exactly as I never gave it a though until pondering this thread. I should count them. (picture didn't upload too well but if you click it then it's much larger and clearer)Where have you found those 'books' for your US coins at the 2nd shelf?
I keep the most expensive coins in a safe deposit box. It's not very satisfying, they belong more to Wells Fargo than me. I keep several CSA items there, including Confederate Bond Receipts signed by the brother of a US president and Governor of Virginia. Can't recall the name at the moment. (See what I mean about safe deposit boxes?) A few encapsulated MS coins (sterile - can't hold them) and a bunch of junk silver dollars and halves. My retirement stash. If anyone is interested I will try to get some pictures, I'm not sure what the Wells Fargo security would make of me setting up a tripod though.
My actual collection, as opposed to my retirement fund is mixed up between albums, folders and cigar boxes. As you can see it is quite a mess but it's ordered chaos. I can find any coin in seconds. The better coins which I am actively collecting go into albums, or Whitman folders until I can afford an album. Lower grade coins and those from countries I don't actively collect live in the cigar boxes. These are guarded by two shotguns, a 9 millimetre Taurus, a 38 revolver, 1 sword, several ball bats, a large dog, a seriously dysfunctional cat, and a wife (green eyed, red haired Irish/Sicilian) who can load and shoot the side by side twelve guage in under 10 seconds. I think they are safe.
One day I may sell up and buy 14,000 wives instead.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
-Plato
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You could add easily more than 1000 coins per day in a free day.
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Quote: tony_k_1965With great difficulty, which I do hope to improve once I get my collection in some form of order, this is a pic of my entire collection, coins in folders, drawers, and larger plastic containers or sorted, everything else in tubs, tins etc; still need sorting.I have even worse:
1. my "magic blue box"- average weight- 70-100kgs of world circulating coins
2. some ongoing partly- sorted coins:
3.my swaplist
unc postwar world coins
other postwar coins
prewar/wartime
Numista/ebay organizer
and this is only part what I have here in UK, my real collection and most of coins are located secure in Latvia.
I am planning to sort all coins in next 4-5 months. huh..
silver addict Latvian
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Hi there! I thought I would also post some photos of my collection
First of all my spare coins that I use for swapping on Numista. My sister made these great boxes for me. I have got circa 450 doubles so it is not that much, they fit perfectly
This is how I store my coins that are currently out of circulation. When I find some time I will make some descriptions to them
I have got over 100 Polish commemorative 2 zł coins. In the near future I am planning to buy an album for them. For now, they just fit in this (plus some banknotes):
As my primary objective is to get all world coins currently in circulation (apart from commemorative issues) these are my two main albums with descriptions
First of all my spare coins that I use for swapping on Numista. My sister made these great boxes for me. I have got circa 450 doubles so it is not that much, they fit perfectly
This is how I store my coins that are currently out of circulation. When I find some time I will make some descriptions to them
I have got over 100 Polish commemorative 2 zł coins. In the near future I am planning to buy an album for them. For now, they just fit in this (plus some banknotes):
As my primary objective is to get all world coins currently in circulation (apart from commemorative issues) these are my two main albums with descriptions
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Great boxes and very nice albums! Looks certainly a lot better than the albums I use! "For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
-Plato
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Recently, my mother bought some effervescent tablets which come in plastic round tubes. I found out that pre-decimal half pennies, decimal twopence's and 2 eurocoins fit perfectly in those tubes, so now I'm keeping my double world coins in them.
It really works perfectly, because they are easy to store and the coins are kept in a good condition (before the tubes came, I threw my coins in a box, which means that the coins scratch eachother and that means ugly scratches and decreasing of value).
Here are some pictures:
1) Tube for Italian 10 Lire's
2) Tube for French aluminium 1 Franc's (Vichy and normal type)
3) Tube for uncirculated UK 1967 pre-decimal half pennies
4) Tube for uncirculated UK 1967 pre-decimal half pennies
5) Tube for UK decimal 2 pence's (random dates)
I'm still saving them, because I still have a hell of a lot Portugese 1, 5, 20, 100 Escudos that also fit perfectly in those tubes.
It really works perfectly, because they are easy to store and the coins are kept in a good condition (before the tubes came, I threw my coins in a box, which means that the coins scratch eachother and that means ugly scratches and decreasing of value).
Here are some pictures:
1) Tube for Italian 10 Lire's
2) Tube for French aluminium 1 Franc's (Vichy and normal type)
3) Tube for uncirculated UK 1967 pre-decimal half pennies
4) Tube for uncirculated UK 1967 pre-decimal half pennies
5) Tube for UK decimal 2 pence's (random dates)
I'm still saving them, because I still have a hell of a lot Portugese 1, 5, 20, 100 Escudos that also fit perfectly in those tubes.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
-Plato
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Quote: mayankFinally this is how I have decided to store my coins, though I am not too sure about writing on coin holders cause my handwriting is pretty bad and I don't think I have enough space left on my coin holders to stick printed info.They aren't in the right order!!!!
(Image source: utcexchange.com)
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
-Plato
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I use optima albums (Leuchtturm), classic and sometimes Gigant. They are not the cheapest ones but they are good. Then I use cover pages in which I put bought county coin sheet and country coin info page made by me. I also make labels for all different types I have. I do have 15.000 coins and they are mainly in these albums. I use approximately 1 hour per day to organize, study or enjoy my coins. I added some pictures here.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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Quote: OllisaarinenI use optima albums (Leuchtturm), classic and sometimes Gigant. They are not the cheapest ones but they are good. Then I use cover pages in which I put bought county coin sheet and country coin info page made by me. I also make labels for all different types I have. I do have 15.000 coins and they are mainly in these albums. I use approximately 1 hour per day to organize, study or enjoy my coins. I added some pictures here.Wow, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
What do you think?
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
-Plato
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I store my better coins in flips, then in mooncake boxes 
University is time consuming, cherish your free time!
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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My coin collection with now more than 34.000 different coins, is behind those doors:
and when I open them, it looks like this:
I made the design of this cupboard and had some carpenters doing the actual work and installation.
You'll see and extra "drawer" on top of my key-board, where I put the coins I work upon:
To the left (on a chair) I have the catalog concerning the coins in process:
On top of the monitor I have the "queue" of coins to be processed:
I have more than 100 binders with Numista pvc-free pages. I only have 80 binders in this cupboard, the rest are in another cupboard. The content of each binder is in a special Excel file which can be sorted either in order of binder number or in country order. That way I always know, in which binder a specific country is. This also allows me to change a country easily from one binder to another, by just changing the binder number of the country!
My more than 10.000 doubles I now keep in 2x2 envelopes in pages made for 2x2 coin holders. I number those pages and keep them in boxes with each 50 pages = 50x20 coins = 1000 coins per box. Those boxes I keep in my cellar. In my doubles list I of course give the number of the page, where the coin can be found again (in most cases it works, but of course errors occur).
If anybody wants to see examples of my collection, doubles and binder file, just ask!
and when I open them, it looks like this:
I made the design of this cupboard and had some carpenters doing the actual work and installation.
You'll see and extra "drawer" on top of my key-board, where I put the coins I work upon:
To the left (on a chair) I have the catalog concerning the coins in process:
On top of the monitor I have the "queue" of coins to be processed:
I have more than 100 binders with Numista pvc-free pages. I only have 80 binders in this cupboard, the rest are in another cupboard. The content of each binder is in a special Excel file which can be sorted either in order of binder number or in country order. That way I always know, in which binder a specific country is. This also allows me to change a country easily from one binder to another, by just changing the binder number of the country!
My more than 10.000 doubles I now keep in 2x2 envelopes in pages made for 2x2 coin holders. I number those pages and keep them in boxes with each 50 pages = 50x20 coins = 1000 coins per box. Those boxes I keep in my cellar. In my doubles list I of course give the number of the page, where the coin can be found again (in most cases it works, but of course errors occur).
If anybody wants to see examples of my collection, doubles and binder file, just ask!
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Quote: ngdawaThis is how I store my coins:Impressive!
Hope I'll own one of those one day.
Can you buy it or you had it custom made?
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Quote: tony_k_1965With great difficulty, which I do hope to improve once I get my collection in some form of order, this is a pic of my entire collection, coins in folders, drawers, and larger plastic containers or sorted, everything else in tubs, tins etc; still need sorting.This is how a collector's desk should look like
Very nice
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Quote: attloopYou can buy those cabinets most of the time at your local hardware store.Quote: ngdawaThis is how I store my coins:Impressive!
Hope I'll own one of those one day.
Can you buy it or you had it custom made?
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
-Plato
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Quote: Lotus07ThanksQuote: attloopYou can buy those cabinets most of the time at your local hardware store.Quote: ngdawaThis is how I store my coins:Impressive!
Hope I'll own one of those one day.
Can you buy it or you had it custom made?
I thought it's something specially made for coin storage.
I guess it's a usual tool storage cabinet.
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Quote: Sjoelundand I suppose, the coins are all rattling around touching the other coins from the same country whenever you move the drawer? In my early days of collecting, that was my dream for my doubles, but now I have doubles in the UNC grades, and no way I can store them like that.Evidently you're not.
Anyway, it's a step forward in organizing your doubles, but not your collection? Or am I wrong?
I wouldn't store them like that. I just really like that labelled cabinet since I'm currently collecting by country.
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Quote: Matt ProbertI'd be happy with just 100 coins that I really like!Quote: mayankAny more ideas guys? How about the snaps of your entire collection.With over 14,000 coins I cant photograph them. Suffice to say they are in numerous albums, organiser boxes, a coin cabinet, two drawer cabinets, specimen boxes, and even plastic ice cream boxes (what else do you do with 1000 French centimes and a similar number of Spanish peseta coins?)
Before you ask, YES my wife is thoroughly fed up with them all over the place, and I am scared the floor will give way under the weight!
Matt
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Nordfljot Groningen-Friesland.
Referee for Dutch Republic, Netherlands and Frisia
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Quote: HippaforalkusYeah me too, we're quite clever with recycling here in the North.Haha, here in the Middle we're just like that, probably just as in all of the Netherlands!
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
-Plato
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My coin collection has now grown by about another 10k since this picture was taken.
But I now have more albums to store them in (yet to be transferred) and will picking up these at the weekend so hopefully I can get a lot more organised.
1x this
2 x this
and 1x this
But I now have more albums to store them in (yet to be transferred) and will picking up these at the weekend so hopefully I can get a lot more organised.
1x this
2 x this
and 1x this
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I just recently got this idea and started organizing my coins this way... I am not done yet, because it takes time to make all the cards but I think it will look great once I finish it all.
This is just a few pictures
This is just a few pictures
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Quote: karanbhai2005Please suggest a way to keep the doubles well-organized for easy access. I am having a tough time with just 360 coins !The answer is bags. Here is a third of what I have ...
I have over twenty times as many exchange coins (360 x 20 = 7200) and I put all mine in bags, then the bags in one box. If I have too many of a country (such as France) I just put in a bigger bag. Sometimes I put bags in bags; like for France each denomination is in its own bag: 10 centimes, 1 franc, and so on.
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
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Quote: PajaSkotI just recently got this idea and started organizing my coins this way... I am not done yet, because it takes time to make all the cards but I think it will look great once I finish it all.How do you store them in your folder? Alphabetically by country?
This is just a few pictures
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Hi collectors,
Here's how I store my 11.000 coins.
I use maps from Importa, a Dutch company.
and below you see my doubles
Here's how I store my 11.000 coins.
I use maps from Importa, a Dutch company.
and below you see my doubles
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This is how I store my tokens. I don't really care about them to be honest, I have 1 - 2 kg of tokens, and I don't know what barely any of them are. Most of them are kept in sheets like the one shown.
Mostly coins I'm too lazy to sort (French francs, Spanish pesetas, etc.) Minus the shoebox.
The shoebox.. each country has their own bag, in some cases 2 or 3. These are my leftover years (1 of each year).. 1 of each type goes into my albums.
More laziness. Mostly common coins, sorted into countries.. Not catalogued / checked for years. Will probably start selling these off, e.g. I have about 250 Jamaica 25 cents.. Not sure how I have managed to accumulate so many. But I am not sorting every single one out lol. The box these coins lay on contains about 40kg of unsorted world coins currently.
Current unsorted small pile.. about 15 kg.
I sort types into album.. In separate folder(s) for the different continents. I use the order as in Numista catalog. The 3 albums pictured are a bit different, one is UK.. full of penny's, sixpences, etc. One is for uncirculated sets and one is for commemorates.
I also have a smaller album in the blue box with all my silver coins, in coin flips. As well as cased commemoratives, some proof coins, etc.
So yes, I try my best with my collection. I have only been collecting 2 months, so I'm still learning. I'm also a student, and I don't have much to spend, so have to make do with what I got. For virtual storage I use this site, and download the Excel file for back up. Very jealous of some of your collections btw!
Edit: Just got some new albums which i ordered a while ago. They are tiny, 60 coin albums!
This is perfect as i've started organizing my coins into more specific regions (Not continents). The 2 pictured are channel islands(+gibraltar) and carribean islands. I have also got one of these for Australia/New Zealand.
I plan on buying about 20 more, some countries will have their own, and others will be grouped regionally.. and if not regionally alphabetically. (I like smaller albums than large albums). I will then store my YEARs in the larger albums
Best thing about these albums is that they cost £2 each with free P&P so i love them.
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My coin collection is currently kept in 3 4-ring binders (Leitz 1012). The 3 binders are for Commonwealth Coins, European Coins and then Rest of the World.
I use Hartberger coin holders (Self adhesive) and Hartberger coin pages.
As I have terrible penmanship, I decided to print the coin info instead of writing it. I print 3 stickers per coin; Country, Description and Coin Reference.
For the stickers I use Avery No 3322 (37mm x 5mm).
It takes a lot of time to do this, but I am very happy with the end result. It took me 3 months to organise, card and sticker all my coins, but now that I am up to date it is easy to just add the new coins as they arrive.
I use Hartberger coin holders (Self adhesive) and Hartberger coin pages.
As I have terrible penmanship, I decided to print the coin info instead of writing it. I print 3 stickers per coin; Country, Description and Coin Reference.
For the stickers I use Avery No 3322 (37mm x 5mm).
It takes a lot of time to do this, but I am very happy with the end result. It took me 3 months to organise, card and sticker all my coins, but now that I am up to date it is easy to just add the new coins as they arrive.
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Quote: gsl91Hi Phil,Hi George,
The coin albums were actually from eBay.
Hope this helps
George
Thanks for the information, most helpful. I currently have just the one album, which is full and has all different years/countries etc, each one has a slip of card behind it on which is written the coin details (Country, #KM, denomination, year), with exception of my UK £2, £1 and 50p's which are stored in display trays (with a few other £1 & 50p coins):
I have approx. another 250 coins to record/store so was looking for some different options with regards to albums.
Thanks again for the info.
Phil
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