Anyone else stores ancient coins this way?

I have a confession to make, I ditched flips in favor of cardboard lighthouse flips which I've been putting in album pages in a folder, with the tag for the coin in the space next to where the cardboard holder with the coin is on that page. Using that method I can house 10 coins with their associated tags per page, and have both the coins and tags visible. I do press the staple ends on each holder, and when removing coins for re-photographing or other need, I simply gently manipulate the coin to tear the soft mylar film, to avoid any damage from removing staples.

Does anyone else do it this way? Any objections to using this method? I hope I haven't committed blasphemy here by showing this

 

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I use the 2x2 flips, but see nothing wrong with your method.

 

I never bothered to put them in cardboard flips. I keep then in flips. Much easier to take out.

And to me, having one slot for the coin and the other for a flip in the pages is just a waste of space. You'll end up needing to by more pages/binders as the collection grows.

 

Eventually as the collection grows I hope to have enough to do different albums for different categories, such as Greek, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Islamic, Medieval, Etc. I hope one day I can get to the amount of coins necessary to have albums by category. That's probably a few years away.

I will probably need larger safe/deposit box when that time arrives...but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

 

@>Sallent

That is EXACTLY how I do mine.

 

Oh wow, I thought I was the only!

I use this method for long term storage in coin storage boxes safely tucked away in my safe deposit box.

Here's a picture from a couple of years ago before the journey to the bank. Robin the cat was 17 when this picture was taken, she died the following year at the ripe old age of 18.

 

This is a good point. I now have over 700 coins in my collection in seven binders. Each categorized for a time period, i.e., Greek, Roman Republic, and 1st thru 5th Centuries AD. I would have double doing it your way.

 

I don't see anything wrong with it except for the need for more albums, pages, etc. but it's not like a big problem...yet. Ask @Alegandron how his binders are coming.

I use 2x2 flips and the red boxes. My collection is not ordered by era or region but when I bought it. I have a serviceable database that makes finding coins easy. Also it cuts down on expenses when I try to reshoot my coins.

 

My wife uses small hinged black cases with red velvet lined square compartments. I got them for her in the 1980's.

 

I've thought about moving the collection into paper envelopes to help save space, but the idea of cataloguing everything again seems daunting. So, the cardboard 2x2s stay.

Before the move to the safe deposit box I kept them in three ringed binders. However, it was such a pain moving the coins around every time I added a new acquisition. Also, the binders didn't fit into the deposit box very well.

 

I love my albums and the way mine are stored. They are the Littleton 6-open flips to a page, 3-ring binder (smaller), encased with a binder cover, 2 desiccant pages per book, and I get about a dozen to a Pistol Safe. Got 5 more setups on order from Wizard now. I get from 60-80 coins per book (dependent on THICKNESS of coins, and I have several thick ones.) I can pull out the coin for holding, the slip is set up for Obv info on one side, reverse on other as I turn the pages... Works for me.

The more valued books fit in my Safe Deposit Box very well...

Last several days I dug out about 50 denarii that I bought maybe 15-20 years ago when I was early in my Ancients collection foray... 3/4's of them were in cardboard slips... I just tore them all out, and am in process of photographing, cataloging, putting into my Saflips, etc.

LOL... I regret that I may need to post a few of the old Denarii to test if some are fake or not... THAT will humble me...

 

I keep my ancients in both flips and 2X2s I even have a couple small silver Greek coins in Intercept Shield 2X2s as they look great against the black background .

 

I keep mine in slabs. Please don't kick me out of the ancient club..

 

I always remove mine from 2x2's because I love handling the coin. I store all of the 2x2s in boxes. I think I have around 5 of the large, extra long double boxes full and about 15 of the shorter, one sided red ones. I tell you what, fill up one of those extra long double black boxes with piles of Byzantine copper, and you have yourself some WEIGHT.

Of course, I still also have piles and envelopes stuffed with unopened coins, groups of uncleaned coins, etc. I need to catch up with "coin stuff".

 

Keep in mind I collect a little of everything it seems. Just started to dip into the ancients. My wife says my collection has many beginning's with no ends.
With that I use a little of every category to store my coins. I lean more to favor airtites simply for the ease of showing them & just looking. I have both cardboard & plastic (no pvc) flips in albums. Also have slabs in plastic storage boxes. Most importantly I need a bigger safe.

 

I still think cardboard lighthouse flips are the neatest way to store coins, especially if you have coins in a variety of sizes. My collection is (mostly) the portrait series of rulers. I can't just arrange them - raw - on trays, when i have a sestertius from one ruler, and for the next ruler i have an 18mm provincial. The smaller coins could fall off the trays. So i store them in cardboard flips arranged on trays and it looks very tidy.

I used to put the flips in a coin album, but I found it less satisfactory - you're viewing coins through two layers of plastic (the flip plus the plastic album page).

Ideally there should be no plastic. I wish there was a solution where I didn't need to use flips and could simply arrange large coins alongside small coins on a tray, but I haven't found a practical way to do this.

 

I like to handle my coins so I prefer flips. Trays would be great but they pose a climate-control/space challenge.

I'd love to design a tray/display system and have a few ideas rolling around in my head. Maybe someday

For now though, here's my system:

 

Very neat, TIF! There seems to be a gap in the market for innovative coin storage systems. I want a display cabinet that shows both sides of the coins, and also allows you to handle them. I'll take orders as soon as I come up with a design

 

I want 2x2 paper coin envelope with a window similar to how our mail envelopes have for an address display. Only found a single 1 and it was apparently from the 1960s. Haven't seen any since.

And glassine stamp envelopes suck, tried those already. :/