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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 6222793, member: 96898&quot;]Good idea for a thread, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]! I store my coins in three Beba Maxi boxes holding ten trays each. Each tray has 36 compartments (2x2in).</p><p><br /></p><p>The first box contains all my ancient Greek and &quot;Eastern&quot; coins organized geographically according to the Eckhel system (basically a clockwise tour around the Mediterranean starting in Gibraltar and ending in Morocco). You need to know your geography to understand this system, but it makes a lot of sense to store coins from neighboring mints together. This system also works for Roman provincial coins. The Hellenistic empires starting with Alexander have their own tray.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1245960[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second box contains Roman Republican and Imperial coins in order of their RIC numbers (i.e. in roughly chronological order):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1245962[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The third box has my European medieval, early modern, and Islamic coins. I sort the medieval and early modern ones chronologically for each country, and arrange the countries in geographical order from west to east. The German-speaking regions (my main medieval collecting focus) are organized separately from from north to south:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1245963[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My eastern medieval coins are divided into an Arabic and an Indian tray and organized by dynasty :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1245964[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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