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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 6232269, member: 83845&quot;]I always enjoy seeing your excellent cabinet.&nbsp; Your wife needs to come hang out with my wife and talk about how much fun it is to buy your husband coin furniture <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now that you mention it I suppose it does make a lot of sense to have any special sub-collection in its own tray(s). For you it is shield coins but mine could be Nerva Antonine... I’ll have to think on that. Thanks for sharing brother.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ha! The upside is you’re unlikely to run out of room with trays like that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your homemade cabinet is top notch all the way around. Thank you for the detailed explanation of your system!&nbsp; I especially like the way you have each slot numbered.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like that you have expanded your cabinet to include space for a small bookshelf. I will be doing something similar for books that I want to make sure are understood to go with my collection (catalogs, primary references, etc.). Do you keep some of your coin books in your cabinet?&nbsp; Either way looks nice.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Great coin and thanks for the explanation of your system!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the explanation Donna. I have been on the fence about where to draw the line on dividing by Roman / Imperial / Greek Classical / Hellenistic etc.&nbsp; In fact I was leaning toward just grouping by size irrespective of historical era but now I am less sure. There are some groups of coins that just look right together as you mention with your provincials.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is a very elegant display! If your looking for 24/7 display and not just storage this is a really nice way to go. If I ever visited someone with a display like that I’d end up spending the first hour I was there with my head poked into the shelves trying to ID all the coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You exactly illustrate many of the questions that I have had when trying to decide what is best for me. The engineer in me wants to group them by diameter into trays of similar size coins and then arrange them based on when I bought them. That way no coin would ever have to be moved!</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course you lose out on the coherence of a unified sub-collection.&nbsp; As to your specific questions for your collection I think it would make sense to put husbands and wives together and arrange by when the person lived... but there are drawbacks there as well. Thanks for the post!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice tray!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is also an incredibly elegant method of display!&nbsp; I like how the wood is well matched. Did you build this whole table for the purpose or did you add the boxes to an existing table?</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you have them organized in the trays in any particular order?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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