How do you store your ancients?

Agreed. I've used these for a while and have not had any crack yet and they have rounded corners.

 

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If anyone is looking for a nice coin cabinet, here's your chance to buy a pair of them from the court of Louis XIV, Versailles. They're fixer-uppers though. You'll have to add some protective padding inside the trays.

What? You think for 100K EUR they should already have padding? Bah

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/b-b-s-un-hommage-pf1631/lot.19.html

 

I'd bid, but 'clio' would out bid me at the last second. A very classy house for one's coins nonetheless.

 

I'll make a replica for you for half of that price

 

Replace the designs with your 'hammer and slab' symbol and we may just have a deal.

 

Nice, but not sure I would like my cabinet worth more than my entire collection

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I would think the value is in its royal connection and general age. I would prefer a more modern mahogany one. They sell for just a tad less....

 

Pewter and ebony only refers to the drawer fronts. What is the wood making up the structure? Are they claiming the box is original to the fronts? I made a small box from ebony for my wife years ago. It was not the easiest wood to work with (but a lot of fun). Today I have splinters from the project that I use to pick dirt from coin details. They last a long time.

 

cool cabinet ... the circa 1684 AD is kinda sweet (maybe one of you dudes can buy it and save it for my Secret Santa gift?)



.... I'm just sayin'

 

Or mine

 

I just started collecting Ancients and i wanted to display them differently than my U.S. Coins (in Albums). I have a moderate budget, so my coins are not the finest quality but I enjoy admiring with some handling with wonder of where these coins were and with who. I searched "Coin Storage" on E-bay and found this wood cabinet that holds 60 coins and was very reasonably priced ($39 & Free Shipping).
I keep it on my desk where I can take a look whenever and very conveniently. Dimensions 15" x 8" x 6".
I think a nice display cabinet is the way to go and am working on having a small binder near where I can keep information regarding each coin and its history.

 

That was a steel, nice find!

 

For now I use the good old 2x2 cardboard in an album method, leaving a space between each coin for the tags. As you can see, I have quite a few gaps, but that's because I'm still expecting several coins I've purchased but haven't received, so I already slid my coins down to make room in the appropriate spots for my incoming purchases.

Eventually I'll adopt another method, but for now with my rather small collection of 24 ancient silver coins, this method is enough.

 

Paper or plastic? Paper please.

I picked up a bunch of these a few weeks ago and transferred my whole collection into them.



Like Sallent, I had previously kept my coins in cardboard 2x2s. Inspired partly by Doug and partly by my desire to store them a more practical and traditional way, I made the move and will never go back. The coins get handled a lot more now. Also, after I cross the river Styx, the paper envelopes with my attributions are much more likely to travel with the coins than a stapled 2x2. Once a 2x2 is opened it's thrown away, no matter how valuable the info it contains.

 

Well, I do have traditional tags, so presumably the next owner will put my tag, and the previous older tags, into a 2x2 plastic flip or into a paper envelope. My 2x2 cardboard holders contain no information about the coins. Thats what the traditional tags (mine and the older ones that came with the coin) are for, to prove provenance and give the details of the coin.

 

All that matters is you're happy with how you do things.

 

I'm sure as time goes on I'll move past this method and adopt something else, but it works just fine for now with the small size of my current collection

 

As a collection grows, decisions have to be made. Paper envelopes are much easier to store than the 2x2s and you can fit more of them into a coin box.

 

What do you do with the old tags? I have some tags that date to the 70s. I'd hate to get rid of them. Do you store them separately?

 

Yes, the important tags are ordered and stored separately in their own coin boxes. The rest are thrown into a cigar box.