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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 2601807, member: 82549"]I keep all my ancients in 2 x 2 cardboard/mylar holders, </p><p>[ATTACH=full]568068[/ATTACH]</p><p>but I am getting dangerously close to trashing all those holders and switching to mylar flips so that I can take the coins out of their holders and handle them more easily.</p><p> [ATTACH=full]568067[/ATTACH]</p><p>The only thing stopping me at this point is the rather daunting task of copying all the information that I've written about the coin--ruler, reverse, mint, etc.--on the holder onto little pieces of paper to stick into the flip with the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>All you old-timers like me: remember film slides? You took them with a camera and needed a slide projector to show them? Many years ago I came across a large stack of unused slide holders--plastic sheets with pockets to hold 20 slides per sheet--that someone was giving away. The pockets were exactly the right size for holding coin holders or flips, and the sheets were designed to fit into 3-ring binders. I grabbed them, probably 2 or 3 dozen altogether. So I keep all my coins in holders, all the holders in these slide sheets, and all the sheets in different 3-ring binders according to topic or time period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 2601807, member: 82549"]I keep all my ancients in 2 x 2 cardboard/mylar holders, [ATTACH=full]568068[/ATTACH] but I am getting dangerously close to trashing all those holders and switching to mylar flips so that I can take the coins out of their holders and handle them more easily. [ATTACH=full]568067[/ATTACH] The only thing stopping me at this point is the rather daunting task of copying all the information that I've written about the coin--ruler, reverse, mint, etc.--on the holder onto little pieces of paper to stick into the flip with the coin. All you old-timers like me: remember film slides? You took them with a camera and needed a slide projector to show them? Many years ago I came across a large stack of unused slide holders--plastic sheets with pockets to hold 20 slides per sheet--that someone was giving away. The pockets were exactly the right size for holding coin holders or flips, and the sheets were designed to fit into 3-ring binders. I grabbed them, probably 2 or 3 dozen altogether. So I keep all my coins in holders, all the holders in these slide sheets, and all the sheets in different 3-ring binders according to topic or time period.[/QUOTE]
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