Running Out of Display Space

Nice displays, and good use of limited space. Making me think of how I should display mine in groups altogether. For the coin trays, I think it is ok to have more. Just swap trays once a while, like every 2 weeks. So you won't be seeing the same pieces all year long. Just my thoughts.

 

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Congratulations on facing the 'problem' of too many beautiful objects. My answer to the problem is a set of photos on a usb drive running in a loop on a small TV set for random display. With a reasonable delay, a collection of 1000 objects only takes ~three hours to cycle. You know you have 'arrived' when your slide show displays things you forgot you owned. I know pictures are not the same as the actual coins but this is one answer to your option #3.

In the earliest days of my hobby I used Dansco books for my ancients. Many required gluing two identical pages together leaving out the middle pair of slides so thick coins were not scraped. This worked when I had the books (available used cheaply) having moved my US coins to rolls (I have a roll of Indian cents and a roll of mostly different buffalo nickels pulled from circulation in the 50's). That was from the day when a kid was not frowned upon for having AG-F coins in their collection. I never warmed up to paying more than one cent for a Lincoln but was willing to pay a couple dollars for an ancient.

 

That’s an incredible collection!

 

Option 4: showcase some of those coins in the beautiful and dry climate. Somewhere like Utah. Hey, I know a guy
Simply stunning collection @DonnaML. I love your collection and display Thanks for sharing with us

 

Rather than thanking all of you individually, I'll simply say that I greatly appreciate your positive comments. I respect all of you, and your expertise on ancient coins -- as well as the way in which you've welcomed my participation here over the last few months since I became a member, despite the relatively small size of my collection! -- immensely.

 

My advice - clear out some books and use the shelf space for more displays ... or, only display the 128 most desirable pieces from your collection. The remaining coins tucked away in a nearby coin box.

 

I agree with idea of having some coins home to be enjoyed on display in trays. If a collection outgrows the available space, I see no problem with putting the overflow into the bank and occasionally rotating coins in and out of the display. It is special seeing "old friends" again after they have been away. The process of selecting coins to temporarily go away and others to return gives you occasion to reconsider what you are collecting and what really appeals to you. Your coins don't need to be all on display at home.

 

I've worked from home for the last 8 years - so spend many hours a day in my home office. I do not think I would get ANY work done if my office looked like that!! ..
Would drift in and out of a trance looking at those beautiful objects! What an amazing space!

For myself I transformed an old coin cabinet into something that works for me and my family. The thread is here if you are interested in having a look.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/old-homemade-coin-cabinet-with-potential.336310/

I always have a tray of coins on my desk .. rotating the trays in and out of the cabinet. While my wife and daughters support my hobby - they have no interest in looking at coins.

 

How about a curio ?

 

Not sure what you mean.

 

I read that entire thread, @Clavdivs. Fascinating, and a beautiful result! How long will it take you to fill that up?!

 

Since it will be another year or two before the three trays I'm now using are full, I have plenty of time to figure out what to do at that point. If I ever do decide to put any of my ancient coins away, I have plenty of room, given this stack of 30 Lighthouse/Leuchtturm and Lindner coin trays (they're compatible with each other), made for a wide variety of coin sizes, in the back of one of my closets.



Once upon a time, they held the portion of my collection of British coins and historical medals (including a large collection of silver crowns back to Charles II) that weren't in the large display case on the table in my living room (see the photos at the beginning of this thread). Now, these trays are at least one-third empty, since I sold about a third of that collection in number, but 90+% of it in value. Plus almost all of my collection of British gold coins back to James I, which I kept in a safe deposit box. Any thief would be very disappointed with the remaining coins in these trays, including the trays of white metal medals, and of well-circulated late 19th-century and 20th-century farthings through shillings that I collected as much as 40-50 years ago!

Of course, my antiquities are probably worth almost as much as I was paid for all of the gold coins I sold, and I'm certainly not putting them in a safe-deposit box. They wouldn't fit, and it would defeat the purpose of owning them. Frankly, so would putting any of the ancient coins in a safe deposit box. In any event, I live in an apartment building in a safe middle-class neighborhood -- not in a house, or a building full of wealthy people -- and I'm really not too concerned. (Especially now, when I'm almost always home and my only visitor in the last two months has been my son!) In normal times, I do put the coin trays away if anybody I don't know and trust, including people who work in the building, ever enters my apartment. And as I've said before, most people who see the antiquities (including friends) assume they're reproductions, and have no idea that they're real.

 

Beautiful! Beautiful! I don't think I'd ever get up from the desk!

 

Thanks to both of you. Especially now, it reduces my stress levels a great deal to look at them. Or to turn my head the other way and see antiquities like these:



And others I've posted photos of previously. See, for example,

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an...ts-thread-post-em.307997/page-18#post-4226786

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/please-help-with-helios-medallion.358646/#post-4378668

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/do-you-display-any-of-your-coins.356922/page-2#post-4271612

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/do-you-display-any-of-your-coins.356922/page-3#post-4273864

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/do-you-display-any-of-your-coins.356922/page-2#post-4271559

 

https://www.seventhavenue.com/p/tes...MC9eMifGdUahP-ahuwfwKnftVtv7edngaAgeWEALw_wcB

 

Ok. Thanks. You meant a curio cabinet or vitrine. I have quite a few of the tabletop kind for my antiquities. No room for a free-standing one!

 

Wow what a beautiful collection! Absolutely stunning.

And a pretty Antiochos VIII tetradrachm

 

Thanks. It came from the last FSR auction. It's only my 6th ancient Greek coin, but it really appealed to me for whatever reason.

 

@DonnaML ...Love the way your displaying your collection!...
I have mine in trays in aluminium cases and always have a few trays out next to me especially when I'm on the hunt for a new acquisition.


But now seeing how you display I'll look into picking up a couple of these vertical display cases really cool...Thanks for sharing...

 

Lovely way of displaying your coins, @DonnaML. I like it when the coins are within your reach so you can take them out and look at them closely, in hand. For me its the best way to enjoy the hobby.

I have my coins in our living room cabinet, in two trays. I have one tray with large boxes for bronzes (20) and one tray with small circular boxes for denarii (99). It's ok for now, but somewhere in the near future I will need to think about expanding as well. Here's an older picture I have shown before.


I was wondering, what are the acrylic stands you use to have the trays stand up? And do your coins slide out of the square boxes? I use the lindner display stand and the angle causes some of the denarri the slide out of their round boxes.