Anyone else stores ancient coins this way?

My wife has built an Access Database for me that I have yet to prove out. I have slowly been photographing and collecting old info on my coins. @Pishpash will help prove it out when I get started... still pending. I am around 500-750 in my collection (still pulling stuff together)...much bigger project than I expected!

 

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I am one of those that use Excel. I have used Excel for work for a long time, so I am comfortable with it. It's actually gotten easier over the years. If anyone is interested and has Excel on their computer, PM me and I can send a small version of my database that can be expanded and used.

 

This is how my ancient coins are currently archived:



Old tags are kept along with my label in a flip placed adjacent to the coin (which is also in a flip). If a coin is in a slab, then it just gets archived on a page with other slabs. I enjoy being able to view both sides of the coin without removing it from the album or flip.

I'm thinking that my system could evolve into a small carry case with a tray system like ANoob's. ANoob's carry case is a size that fits into the vault. If this happens, I might put the flip containing the label & previous tags into the tray first with the raw coin simply placed on top.

I look forward to the day when my collection will no longer fit into the carry case. Perhaps it could be transferred to a cabinet with trays looking something like this:

 

Isn't this where all of @Ancientnoob 's cast-offs go to?

 

I'm certain that 10% of my ancients have been purchased or traded with ANoob. Maybe we need a thread where folks can post their ANoob traded coins.

ANoob & I are sometimes able go coin shopping together. We have attended some cool shows from NYC to Boston. It's funny, quite often one of us will buy a great coin at a show & then we end up bartering in the car before we get home. I've tried to cherry-pick his collection from time to time. In recent times he has been after my quadrigatus (but that will never happen ).

Here is one that I finagled from ANoob in 2014. I really like this one.

BABALONIA, Babylon
AR Stater (or Dishekel)
328-321 B.C.
16.08 grams, 22 mm x 5.5 mm thick
Obv: Ba’al seated left holding scepter
Rev: Lion walking left, control mark
Г above.
Grade: good Fine to a Very Fine
nicely toned & centered.
Other:Good silver 5.5 mm thick. Anonymous mintage of Eastern Alexandrine empire under the successors of Mazaeus (Stamenes
328-323 B.C., Archon 323-321 B.C.) See BMC.34, BMC.184/36. Babylonian stater coin sometimes called a tetradrachm according to the Attic standard due to its 16 gram weight.
Ex Pegasi auction #19 lot 181 November 18, 2008.
From private sale January 11, 2014.

 

Gawd that's a thick one! I like it!

 

The tray & cabinet approach may fit thick ancients like the dishekel & this Aegian turtle (which resembles a marble).



Here is a Thai 4 Bhat coin that I bought at the NYINC and promptly traded to ANoob. It would need an especially thick tray.

 

I didn't know ANoob traded, or sold coins? (he's sounds a bit like JA?)

... I must not be on ANoob's auction-list?

 

Me either. Now I feel bummed.

 

The Aegina is a fine example of what happens when you take a globular flan and don't hit it hard enough to spread the flan completely. As such, I find it interesting and might buy such a coin for its educational value while one hit much harder would be full design and more attractive. The question is how much difference would we expect to pay. Their interest values might be similar but their market prices would not be. Many tray models make a deep model for shuch coins but I only have a couple that would need one so I keep them in another manner (tubs made for ock collectors).

 

I got this same hockey puck from @Ancientnoob also... Ours must be brothers.

 

Its in his signature lol

But yeah I've gotten a couple of things from him as well.

 

what's a signature?

Oh, now I see ... I always have those turned-off

 

Great displays , you can use them over and over again. and show the coin both sides.


I Like wooden cases

Like carton too

 

Love the wooden trays and I would love to find some like them. Hint hint

 

I love those display frames. I may have to hunt down a few.

 

I have one which was purchased for something else and I considered using it for coin display, but the stretchy plastic likely has coin-harming chemicals.

If you want some though, you can get them in various sizes from Rio Grande.

 

Thanks @TIF , if I were to use them I would probably put the coins in a capsule first. Not ideal, but I do not like the idea of "Coin-harming chemicals".

 

That would work. Good idea!

 

Got the display frames from the Royal Dutch mint, they came with each (expensive)
ancient coin I bought from them, so I'll guess the plastic is not harmfull ? for tets you need a really thick coinholder , but perhaps one will fit inside.