Have you ever shown off coins in shadow box/frame displays?

I saw a lot of four S. Korean 1968 One-Won coins for bid at eBay a few years ago. I won the lot and sent all four to NGC for grading. Three came back in MS-65 and the one shown below in MS-66. Currently there are 31 in the NGC census at this grade and only 3 higher at 67.

Since the listing at eBay noted that the coins came from a mint bag, I contacted the seller to ask if he still had the bag. He did, surprisingly, and I snagged it for an extra $30. After few years later, I got the idea to place these two in a frame or a shadow box of some kind. I got the idea after seeing someone else who had done this with a mint bag and a CC Morgan Dollar:



Here is my shadow box. It's a pricey German "Lindner"-brand product that uses plastic film sections that trap whatever you're trying to display between the two halves of the frame. This is the largest one I could find, at a 9" X 7" interior. Anything requiring a larger space would have ended up in a regular framed display, like the one above. I like this Lindner floating frame display because you can see both the obverse and reverse of the coin.



Reverse:

 

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I don't have anything like that but I think it is nicely done. That is a great way to display all these related items.

 

I have seen similar set ups and they make for nice displays. I like that bank bag!
Modern coin mart does a mini version of this usually with an informative card on one side and a slab on the other. These are in an inexpensive plastic case. I once owned a hand heller from Hall in a display such as this, but I think they do them for bulk submissions sometimes as I've seen just "genuine" ancient coins in similar packaging.

 

That's a neat display. I really like it. Thanks for sharing!

 

Sweet!

 

Yep. Many of these "floating frames" are much smaller and hold just one/two coin(s) or one slab. This one I have actually looks really nice as a hanging frame against the wall.

 

I cropped the photos to highlight the contents. Here's what the full frame looks like: