Ancient Coin Collection Storage

I have forgotten the story about this guy. Advice: if you ever invite him home and show in your collection, do not leave him alone with your coins.....

 

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Yeah, but the stomach acids would eat up your coins
Louis Eliasburg had the best way of storing his 60+ million dollar collection/ 70s prices!
He has a bank safe installed inside his mansion, there he kept all his coins to see everyday.

 

@TIF
Do you use a program to create your labels? I have tried to create something similar with less than satisfactory results.

 

You’re a BEAST!!!

 

He was awarded a brass plaque by the Guinness Book to commemorate his abilities. He consumed it as well.[4]

 

For $10 you can buy one of these little carrying cases - the compartments fit 2x2s perfectly - can't beat it for storage and transportation of your collector coins if they're in 2x2 flips (I use mine for storing single 1 oz. bullion bars and rounds)
https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-13-...-Sided-Small-Parts-Organizer-320028/204645520

 

I think some may get a bit bored with display and storage threads, but I love them. I absolutely love to see what people use, what they have repurposed, etc. I think it gives all of us great ideas.

Back in the 80's when I was a beginning dealer I also used slide files like @TypeCoin971793 illustrates. They worked for what I needed at the time. Then I began to use Abafil trays. At the time I had lots of space and decided that I could utilize other furniture to store those trays (I no longer have space, so a large safety deposit box now has to suffice). But at one point I was in an antique store and saw an old map case. It would have worked great, but I did not buy it, was only $300 and would have been a great solution. I found this image on the web, not the same but very similar:

This idea also does not have to be for the rich. There is a big market out there for safe doors (or vault doors, whatever the proper term is). If you have a secure room you can just order a vault door for a couple (or few) thousand dollars:



There are lots of ideas out there. Keep posting them.

 

That cabinet is incredibly awesome!
My issue is that I really like to handle my coins and have them easily accessible.. I also understand those with 100's of coins -this won't work (as I picture it).
I love the Abafil trays but on my budget I just can't justify (to myself) spending money on my hobby in that way when I could spend that $$ on coins.

As you stated .. everyone has different ideas on how they want to interact or present their hobby. These threads are great for me as I try to pick up a little from each post and figure out what I want to do..Thank you to all who share!

 

Those doors are great and all, but they don’t keep someone from going through the wall. That’s an extra consideration one must have

 

It's good to see that Vermeer's long lost painting, "Girl With a Pearl Earring and Ancient Coins All Over the Dining Table," has been found!

 

No program per se-- just the template which is downloadable from the company that makes the sticker sheets. I use Avery 1.5" square blank sticker sheets. I copy and paste the attribution from elsewhere but then have to tweak the font size and color, and in many cases abbreviate or leave off some detail.

I've color coded the fonts a little bit-- if it is a plate coin, the plate information is in red. Pedigree/provenance info is in blue. If the coin is unlisted in literature, the reference (or lack thereof) is in green.

 

I’m not doing anything unique at the moment but do enjoy using the album format in this faux leather binder. Guardhouse flips with mostly handwritten tags. I put any old tags on the backside of the flip.




For the longest time I didn’t know what to do with all of the retail and auction receipts. I should have thought of it sooner but finally picked up a $10 alphabetized Pendaflex folder. Now I just drop the receipts right in. I don’t have a big collection so this will work for now.

 

For my copper coins i had books made for them. They look good and easily stored.

Easy to put in the safe, the paperwork is kept separately.

 

Lately I've run out of the 20-coin pages and have been using a blue Whitman plastic box first out of necessity. But the past couple months, I've been really liking having a box instead the "trapper keeper" and plastic pages. So last week I ordered a 5-pack of the red cardboard boxes (I'm too frugal to binge on more Whitman).

Like Doug, I liked the dividers (and the ridged bottoms) included in the Whitman to keep the coins in a not-full box in place, but were lacking in these red boxes.


So taking his advice in his post, I went and added dividers... Here's his process I followed:

I found some cardboard in nice condition (the wife's Amazon purchases gave me plenty of resources) and traced out the size I'd need using the plastic flips.

I cut them out carefully as to not bend the cardboard.

I put hot glue on one side and the bottom (nice tip, @dougsmit!), placed it, and held it for a handful or two seconds.

As Doug described, only doing one side allows the box to flex without breaking the dividers off.

Here are the finished results.

And a photo with coins and the dividers doing what one would expect, holding them within their smaller compartment.


I have ~75 coins in my full Whitman box, so I'm expecting to fit the same in these, totalling around 375 coins in these 5 boxes + the 75 available space in my Whitman, and that should just about cover the size of my collection give or take.

Now the fun happens, transferring them, organizing them, etc... I'm actually looking forward to it! I haven't paid too much attention to this, the greater collection, in a few months.