I asked people a couple of months ago about how you all stored your ancients to try and get some ideas for how to store FFIVN and my ancients. You guys had some great ideas and I waffled back and forth and what to do. I finally decided to use plastic flips with inserts that have descriptions. I then put those in flip pages that I will put in a binder. This way my son and I can easily look at them and pull whichever one we want. I did my best to arrange them in chronological order. I grouped the Romans together, the Greek, Persian, Indian, Chinese, etc.. on a single page since we don't have to many of them. What do you all think? I know the pictures suck, that's the problem about having them in plastic flips - too much glare from lights. Good thing we can easily take them out to fondle and errrrr photograph
I think that is a sensible and attractive solution. There is a small problem with having to rearrange everything when you add a coin to a full page, but at least for a while that won't seem like a major pain .
Yeah, it's the worst when you have several hundred in a binder & you have one of the early coins, so you gotta move a hundred or more just to put the new one in, at least if you do it by date.
I have the same issue with my modern coins. I love going in date order but eventually gave up because it was too much of a hassle. At least I can say I tried
The shifting is less effort when you leave the pages half full. When a page fills up you split the coins across the original page and a new page. This is the classic b-tree algorithm used for relational database indexes. I have five binders for my mostly junky Roman collection. I started with one, then I found cointalk. I have applied the splitting algorithm to a whole binder 4 times now. I fill the empty slots in the pages with blank flip inserts. It looks better to me than seeing through the page to those underneath. John
You go with what works for you. I arrange my collection nearly the same way in a folder @furryfrog02 I just hand write the tags and keep the original behind the new one. That way I can hide the price I paid on the back of the new tag which is obscured by the old. I have less than 80 coins though so if the collection grows a lot I might have to change the setup.
I don't know, I think there is something traditionally antiquarian about this method which fits the aesthetic of ancient coin collecting.
This is exactly what I am doing with mine: I've bought myself one of those blue plastic boxes to put my flips in, but I can't seem to bring myself to do it and not have them right there staring me in the face page after page.
