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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3549339, member: 74282"]Mine are largely organized by Crawford but certain subsets are organized by more specialized literature. For example, I have multiple anonymous bronzes that, by Crawford numbers alone, fall into the same slots. In these cases they're organized by McCabe groups, citing the groups in his paper on anonymous bronzes. Similarly my Crawford 44 coins are organized by Brinkman-Debernardi groups, citing groups in their paper on anonymous RR denarii. There are also a few completely unpublished coins that are basically just in the closest spot to where they'd fit in in Crawford if they were in there. My imitations and provincials are a whole other story. Imitations are basically stored grouped by their origin(Eravisci, then Geto-Dacian, then Italian bronzes, then Spanish bronzes) and provincials grouped by location. The scheme works well for me. I understand how they're organized and can find a single coin out of 115 or so within a few seconds, even when all are in opaque envelopes, because for the most part I have memorized the layout and know where a particular coin is in the overall series and thuse where it ought to be physically and relative to other coins.[/QUOTE]