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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sonlarson, post: 460909, member: 15488&quot;]<font size="2">I use the 2X2 holders and the 20 pocket per page to hold my circulating collection. I have 4 large binders which I have labeled Europe Book 1, Europe Book 2, North America, Asia.</font></p><p><font size="2">Book 1 contains Germany, Great Britain, Greece, and France</font></p><p><font size="2">Book 2 has the remaining European Nations</font></p><p><font size="2">North America has Canada, Mexico, South and Central America </font></p><p><font size="2">Asia has China, Japan, South East Asia, and Oceania</font></p><p><font size="2">I use an Excel spread sheet to list the nations alphabetically and by denomination</font></p><p><font size="2">I list the metal composition, values and any comments of interest.</font></p><p><font size="2">I currently have 116 countries and about 1100 different coins.</font></p><p><font size="2">My Uncirculated Euro collection is in a special Dansco.</font></p><p><font size="2">My World Silver collection is kept in Airtites in an Eagle binder with special pages to hold the airtites.</font></p><p><font size="2">A sample page from my listings:</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>COUNTRY DENOMINATION YEAR COMPOSITION VALUE COMMENTS</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>CONGO 1 Franc 2002 Brass 0.75 Turtle</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>EGYPT 10 Milliemes 1954 Aluminum-Bronze 8.00 Small Spinx</p><p>EGYPT 2 Piastres 1944 .500 Silver 1.00 </p><p>EGYPT 5 Piastres 1967 Copper-Nickel 0.75 AH1387</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>GHANA 200 Cedis 1998 Nickel plated steel 1.00 Cowrie shell</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>KENYA 5 cents 1984 Nickel-Brass 0.25 Pres. Arap Moi</p><p>KENYA 50 Cents 1975 Copper-nickel 0.20 Pres. Jomo Kenyatta</p><p>KENYA 50 Cents 1980 Copper-Nickel 0.15 Arap Moi</p><p>KENYA 1 Shilling 1998 Brass Plated Steel 1.00 </p><p>KENYA 5 Shillings 1985 Copper-Nickel 0.75 </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>LIBERIA 1 Cent 1969 Bronze 0.10 Elephant</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>MALAWI 1 Shilling 1964 Copper-Nickel-Zinc 0.35 Bundled Cobs Of Corn</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>MAURITIUS 5 Rupees 1987 Copper-Nickel 1.50 </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>MOROCCO 1 Satim AH1394 Aluminum 0.25 1974</p><p>MOROCCO 5 Francs AH1370 Aluminum 0.30 </p><p>MOROCCO 10 Francs AH1371 Aluminum-Bronze 0.75 </p><p>MOROCCO 20 Francs AH1371 Aluminum-Bronze 0.75 </p><p>MOROCCO 50 Francs AH1371 Aluminum-Bronze 0.65 </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>MOZAMBIQUE 500 Meticais 1994 Nickel Clad Steel 1.00 </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>NIGERIA 1/2 Penny 1959 Bronze 0.25 </p><p>NIGERIA 1 Kobo 1973 Bronze 0.25 Oil Derricks</p><p>NIGERIA 10 Kobo 1976 Copper-Nickel 0.60 </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I can&#039;t get this to show the Excel format. Just pretend you see borders and every thing lined up nice and neat. In the bottom photo you can see part of the index page. I have since reformatted from landscape to portrait.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">I print the pages and insert in a sleeve as an index to each section in the books.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">This is a LOT of work but the results are organized and make showing my collection much easier.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">The duplicate coins are kept in a special cabinet with drawers labeled by country.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">Hope this is of some help.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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