Hi folks. Here is a thread where you can post your "coin desk". For roll hunters/die variety searchers, that can be where you open them up and inspect them in whatever way you can. For everyone else, that could mean the desk where you keep your coins at and/or organize them. I built the desk (got it from IKEA) because my other desk became so crowded with coins that I couldn't have anything else on it. -Picture 1 is a shot of my desk with my scope, my "display shelf" above where my favorite coins go, sleeves where I put some of my finds, tubes where I put others, the red box to the right is for searched wheats that will go in my collection. The tubs and boxes on the left are the coins I am currently searching. -Picture 2 is the main drawer for my desk. I keep some of my minor finds there as well as coins I am currently not looking through. There are a ton in both the plastic tupperware and the yellow box. -Picture 3 are bags of wheats that I am currently searching. -Picture 4 is my coin literature, always handy!:thumb: Let's see your guys' desks! Simon
Most of my collection is strewn across my desk, and my library looks like it was hit by a tornado. Too ashamed of my failure to tidy up to post pics
my 10 Krause catalogs are every where. to assamed to show where I do most of my research and looking.
This is the overall pic of my "cash station". It's in my living room since I don't have a room dedicated for an office until one of my daughter's gets married and moves out. Then I will move all of this into their old bedroom and start setting up a fancier one like the OP's. This is my resource table (of course I have to have my sweet tea handy) This is a close-up of the reference books, scales, and supplies This is the random collection I have so far. Most of this was my Mom's collection she passed to me and then coins I have won in contests, coins hubs bought, and errors I have found along with his Jeff Gordon medal and other medals/commemorative coins, etc. The above is kept in the purple cassette box and then it goes into this bag....then into my safe
I'd post pictures but it would embarrass me to know end! As I look around the room, I'm thinking, "I gotta do something about this!"
Perfect timing on this thread, because I was finally able to start work on my new hobby bench/desk/entertainment center/storage area on saturday. The bench will be "L" shaped, 19' long with a 3' extension. What you see here are the main frame sections for the long side. The extension will be fabricated after I fit these sections. 2 x 2 x 14ga. tube legs with adjustable feet and 2 x 1 x 14ga. tube stringers. All internal shelving/draw will be supported by 1 x 1 x 15ga. tubing. My other hobby is builting scratchbuilt remote control drag cars, so the system needs to support a mini lathe and milling machines. I would only be machining plastics and aluminum, so there is no concern about storing coins in the same area, because no antifreeze or oil will be needed for cooling purposes.
Mine just looks like a regular desk, all of the coins, supplies, and books are hidden away in the drawers.
Here is my coin 'man-cave', where I do most sorting and grading. Essential items down in the man-cave, Bose sound dock and beer fridge, culls for eBay are in a holding zone on top of the fridge. Coin (formerly rock) shelf. I originally built this heavy duty shelving unit for rocks, placed in wooden trays. Now it is about 50% coins and 50% rocks, coins and coin show inventory on top, rocks on bottom. At work, after hours, my research lab magically converts into a numismatic lab... High powered optical microscope with digital video camera Bench-top portable XRF (probably the most powerful on the market today), sure helps with those off-metal errors and odd coins. And, the Pièce de Résistance... a scanning electron microscope. Sometimes, it IS important to see the flow of metal on those fields. I don't have a good photo of the SEM instrument, but I'll try to take one sometime soon...
