How do you guys store your coins and keep your books? I know alot of new age computer EXCEL programs help but how does everyone do it? Where do you and how do you store your coins? In what?
For me it's easy. I have a large hole in my back yard. Coins are put into a Sulfur rich bag, then into a large box full of eggs and onions. This is encased in a concrete slab and then dumped into the hole. Buried with Lime, stones, fish heads and finally dirt. Nothing has ever been stolen yet. As to recording them. I just guess, put down ten times what I really have, turn it over to the newpapers and local insurance companies. I have way to much stuff to accurately log but every few years I do try. I have a program in Excel for this and print it out every 4 years. Then download it to a little flash drive and a 3 1/2" floppy for just double safe keeping. The printed out version goes into a 3 ringed binder for additions or changes in Red so it stands out. Many coins are in Albums, plastic rolls, 2x2's in a cardboard box, glass jars waiting to be sorted and a few other places.
I have a website for each coin I own, try looking up BQs1804classIsilverdollar.com or BQs1894-SbarberdimethathefoundinabargainbinduringthestatefairandisgradedVG-8.net you'll see one coin. I have 48,000 such websites. Each coin I own is also guarded day and night by slavering dobermans that dream of nothing but sinking their teeth into tasty human calves. Each dog is also equipped with a laser cannon. As for keeping a recordbook, I had a 25 foot by 25 foot by 1 foot thick slab of polished granite sunk into my backyard and each time I purchase a coin, the denomination, date, mm, price paid, and grade are chiseled into the slab. I'm thinking of getting a second slab soon. Other than that, I don't go too overboard.
My method is similar to Carl's, with the exception all that stuff is thrown into a bag with my coins, unholdered of course, and then thrown into the river for safe keeping. Guy~
You guys are awesome... I struggled with this too, so I wrote a quick website that lets you enter and catalog your coins. It's only for US coins, so if you have something other than US coins, I haven't added that capability yet. Anyway, the site is www.myuscoins.com, check it out, it's all free. It's a good place for me to store my coins, and learn more about the different coins series. If you check it out, let me know your feedback. As far as where I store my coins, I have a bunker dug into my backyard with ill-tempered sea bass in a moat around it. Maybe a bit elaborate for my minuscule collection, but it was fun to build.
For keeping a catalogue of my coins, for the US and Canadian ones i use Whitman Publishing's Checklist and Record Book of US and Canadian coins. It works great and they even have a pocket size one to carry around to shows and such. I also keep my papermoney in excel and have a powerpoint presentation for all my prized coins.
Pete, Part of the reason my colleagues are giving you wise-guy answers is that collectors don't generally like to be asked about the details of where they store their coins. This is especially true of someone they don't know, and who has a small number of posts to the board. Don't take it personally, but at this point your post is viewed in a mildly threatening manner.
Excel and a safe deposit box for the valuable stuff. Receipts are in a box with no detectable sorting method except that most of the older ones are on the bottom.
Haha, enjoyed reading these, really did. Guess I asked an old long time pet pieve huh? A sort of loaded question? No worries guys. Just wanted to gauge what sort of methods worked.. No offense taken it really was kind of funny...Onions and eggs...Anyways, I will check out that website and let you know maeon, and I know about being over protective, when friends come over and ask whats in the locked drawers I tell them its my Plutonium and Radon collection...they dont ask anymore. Anyways thanks for the laughs.. Pete
