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<p>[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 568020, member: 15445"]<b>collection organized by DATE</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Recently, I've been buying coins from an old time collector. He has about 1 zillion world coins and he has them organized by date! This makes it nearly impossible to locate a particular example quickly. However, this is compensated by the order (or lack of order) making it very fun to look through the collection. He is a collector not a dealer. He doesn't need to be organized like a dealer.</font></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">He has the entire collection in dozens of 3-ring binders each with ten 20 pocket vinyl pages. The collection is divided into sections by date. 1800 to 1810 might be four binders. 1810 to 1820 might be in another 3-4 binders and so on. Inside each group of dates, there is no further organizational order except to make each page fun to inspect. One page might be all copper but that is just because those coppers are all fun to view at once. One page might include a coin from Afghanistan & the coin next to it might be from Zanzibar. The only thing that ties the coins together is that they are from the same period of time.</font></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Very best regards,</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">collect89</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 568020, member: 15445"][b]collection organized by DATE[/b] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Recently, I've been buying coins from an old time collector. He has about 1 zillion world coins and he has them organized by date! This makes it nearly impossible to locate a particular example quickly. However, this is compensated by the order (or lack of order) making it very fun to look through the collection. He is a collector not a dealer. He doesn't need to be organized like a dealer.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]He has the entire collection in dozens of 3-ring binders each with ten 20 pocket vinyl pages. The collection is divided into sections by date. 1800 to 1810 might be four binders. 1810 to 1820 might be in another 3-4 binders and so on. Inside each group of dates, there is no further organizational order except to make each page fun to inspect. One page might be all copper but that is just because those coppers are all fun to view at once. One page might include a coin from Afghanistan & the coin next to it might be from Zanzibar. The only thing that ties the coins together is that they are from the same period of time.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Very best regards,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]collect89[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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