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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 6260481, member: 83175&quot;]I separate the coins by category and organise the coins by reference number - RR coins by Crawford, Imperial by RIC, Greek by, well nothing much yet, but maybe HGC eventually.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also usually separate the metals - just because the bronzes can be much larger than the precious metal coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; While it would be nice to keep them together, it would mean putting everything into trays with larger holes, thus requiring more trays.</p><p><br /></p><p>I posted this picture recently - it&#039;s one of a small 3-tray, 216-coin cabinet by Swann that I got secondhand a few years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was sold as part of the sale of the collection of a token collector and described as &quot;ideal for a small 17th century county collection&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact, it&#039;s just right for denarius-sized coins and after some organisation last year, it houses denarii from the Flavians to the Severans - this is the middle tray, the Antonines.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually think I should put the paper labels below the felts - these trays are double-pierced, so it&#039;s easy to get the labels (&amp; coins) out.&nbsp;&nbsp; I include the RIC number on one side and the Tantalus reference on the other.&nbsp;&nbsp; I resolved once to printing out QR codes with the web address of the Tantalus entry on the cards, but haven&#039;t done that yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe during the next reorg.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247918[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got a larger Nichols cabinet - the Crozier model, with 28 trays.&nbsp;&nbsp; I ordered this with a silly mixture of tray sizes, so I&#039;m left with something that&#039;s currently housing the sorrier part of my Greek silver and bronze coins and a few other bits and pieces (a range of asses &amp; dupondii).&nbsp;&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t have enough trays of any particular size to store any other full part of the collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I need to pull off the labels on the trays - in most cases, they no longer correspond to the contents.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247977[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I am a big fan of Abafil trays and now have 30, though it looks like 3 of these are still in plastic wrapping and a couple more house almost no coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are most of them.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247944[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The stack on the right has Roman Republican silver coins, plus a tray of Augustus; on the left, there are Roman Republican bronzes, plus a try of imitative denarii (OK, I have about 10, so there&#039;s plenty of room there!), plus a few medals.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are two trays of Imperial sestertii in the middle.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sestertii and other thick coins don&#039;t fit well in the Nichols cabinet - the trays can be too thin to accommodate them and I had to remove some trays to avoid rubbing away the coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the Abafil trays is of their deep type, for a few Aes Grave (I have very few).</p><p><br /></p><p>Within the trays, the coins are arranged by Crawford number and the higher numbers are in the higher trays in the stack.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are near the top and there are quite a few spaces - other trays filled up further down in the stack and the solution was to insert an empty tray and move a lot of coins, to leave a minimum of 7-8 spaces per tray.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247942[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of these coins are actually quite nice, though they don&#039;t look it in these &#039;phone pictures in bad light!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1247942[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, my Greek coins aren&#039;t in any reasonable organisation.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some are in Abafil trays, but not organised in any pattern.&nbsp;&nbsp; The same goes for Byzntines - a few are actually beside the Nichols cabinet sitting on labels, awaiting the next great reorg when they will take their rightful, still to be determined, place within.</p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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