With coins, I sort them by country, then denomination, then year. So for Mexico, all the 50 centavos coins are together in order, then all the 1 peso coins, etc.
But with banknotes, I wonder if it makes more sense to group each series together? So you might have 1 peso, 5 pesos, 10 pesos, and then a 1 peso note from the next series. But then I wonder why we don't do this with coins and flirt with the horrible idea of reorganizing all my coin binders.
How do you like to organize and sort your banknotes?
Country in Alphabetical order > Year > Denomination as well.
I tend to group issuers that I only have one or two examples of with others, for example my German East Africa 1 Rupie note from 1916 is with Germany rather than in the front with the other A countries.
I have mine in binders, one continent in each binder. Inside the binder I have them sorted in geographically order. So for example, America is sorted as: Canada, Bermuda, USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, (Panama), Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, East Caribbean, (Anguilla), St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Montserrat, (Guadeloupe), (Dominica), (Martinique), (St. Lucia), St. Vincent & The Grenadines, (Grenada), Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Netherlands Antilles, (Curaçao), (Aruba), (French Guiana), Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Falkland Islands.
In folders/binders,
Country --> Denomination --> Year
Its just a fun outlet of my collection but I'd never put any serious money into it.
It is expanding and I need a new folder soon.
Some of it just has to stay in envelopes until I can get another folder/binder.
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