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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1673316, member: 15445&quot;]This question about how we arrange our World coin collections has been discussed a CT many times.&nbsp; Here is a CT thread from a few years ago:</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t43465/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t43465/">http://www.cointalk.com/t43465/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(If we all collected the same coins &amp; arranged them the same way it would be pretty boring right)?&nbsp; I recently met a fellow collector with a completely different organizational solution.&nbsp; :smile&nbsp; This fellow has a 1994 Krause book and he is collecting one of each (non-gold) KM# in the book.&nbsp; He claims to have a few duplicates but strives not to purchase duplicates.&nbsp; The book apparently covers coins from 1894 to 1994.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is where it gets interesting.&nbsp; He buys a coin and pretty much immediately marks it in his Krause book <u>&amp; removes it from its holder.</u>&nbsp; The raw, un-holdered coin is then placed into an appropriate jar.&nbsp; He supposedly has several jars labeled for each geographic area around the world.&nbsp; He currently has 5,000+ coins in his jars.&nbsp; All the coins are just residing (raw &amp; un-holdered) in the jars.&nbsp; If a particular coin is high grade UNC or proof manufacture, then he leaves it in the 2x2 or flip for protection (without regard for possible PVC damage).&nbsp; He has been collecting like this for a long (long) time.&nbsp; In his opinion those darn 2x2s and flips take-up so much room that the majority of his collection gets removed from them immediately.&nbsp; Thousands &amp; thousands of loose coins are in his jars.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose that an ancient coin enthusiast might appreciate this method of organizing a collection.&nbsp; Don&#039;t many ancient coins originate from storage in ancient jars?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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