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<p>[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 4547104, member: 93702"]With the completion of my coin cabinet last year:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/old-homemade-coin-cabinet-with-potential.336310/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/old-homemade-coin-cabinet-with-potential.336310/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/old-homemade-coin-cabinet-with-potential.336310/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I knew that I had a lot of additional work/fun to come as I move my coins from flips to trays.</p><p>I decided to use acid free paper and number each tray compartment as per below (note: that I have 58 trays .. with various sized compartments - so even this was a big task). So, for instance in the tray below you can see the empty compartment labelled 11.4.01 (11th tray, 4th row, 1st compartment).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125652[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have then started creating Word documents for each coin .. with photo, attribution, any other notable information, and a reference # to what tray/compartment to find the coin. I then print them and add to a new binder... so I do have everything electronically (saved to the cloud) but I am a bit old school and really like flipping through the binder.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125655[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>How do you catalogue/catalog your collection?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 4547104, member: 93702"]With the completion of my coin cabinet last year: [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/old-homemade-coin-cabinet-with-potential.336310/[/URL] I knew that I had a lot of additional work/fun to come as I move my coins from flips to trays. I decided to use acid free paper and number each tray compartment as per below (note: that I have 58 trays .. with various sized compartments - so even this was a big task). So, for instance in the tray below you can see the empty compartment labelled 11.4.01 (11th tray, 4th row, 1st compartment). [ATTACH=full]1125652[/ATTACH] I have then started creating Word documents for each coin .. with photo, attribution, any other notable information, and a reference # to what tray/compartment to find the coin. I then print them and add to a new binder... so I do have everything electronically (saved to the cloud) but I am a bit old school and really like flipping through the binder. [ATTACH=full]1125655[/ATTACH] How do you catalogue/catalog your collection?[/QUOTE]
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