How do you store/display your collection?

CAPS pages with coins in airtites....

 

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I like Beba trays. They are considerably cheaper and a bit easier to store and stack than Abafil trays:

Some Greeks in their trays:


My medieval coins:


The trays in their boxes:

 

I need to take new photos of my display cabinet as it's considerably fuller than this intial photo suggests...

 

Wow...I want this ,but doesn't this cost like $500-700+ ???

 

I received this album as a gift from my numismatic mentor. I liked it because I consider it elegant, vintage-looking and suitable for an ancient coin collection


The album had Herlitz sheets, for different size coins (I prefer a standard size even if the coins are smaller) and being old, I wasn't sure they are PVC free.
So I preferred buying some Leuchtturm Optima M24
https://www.cgbfr.com/5-pages-optima-m24-pour-monnaies-34-mm-leuchtturm,fOPTIM24G,a.html
And populated my album.
Previously I was using some smaller albums, 12 coins/page so having 24 coins per page helped me keep the same arrangement.

Order of the coins is exactly the ones I bought them in. I keep a master Excel file with all the coins and separate Words docs for every auction.
This might sound lazy but I like this arrangement. I like to remember what I bought, for example, in an auction from December 2020. And it gives me a view about how my interests and tastes evolved in time.

 

Now that is a nice display!

 

That's really cool! That kind of background makes it even more special.
Also, I did not know that the legend "In God We Trust" first made its appearance on the 2-cent piece. Interesting!

 

I'm thinking I might try something like this, have a separate binder with information for each coin. There's too much info I'd like to record and too little space on the tiny papers in my organizer.

 

With shipping, this one was just shy of $300

https://www.albertozecchi.com/

 

Thanks I copied that link. I was thinking of this size...

 

After being around several house fires (Not Mine) but it did get me to thinking about my Lincoln collection and a house fire?
I have a fire proof safe (small one) on the floor, lowest point in the house that puts most FLAMES above the safe with a direct drop to the ground below if the floor under it was to catch fire.
BUT! I still have a coin collection problem in that my two albums will not fit in the safe. I've looked for an additional safe that would just be big enough for the coin albums but I can't find one?
Yes, I could just buy a LARGER safe big enough but, the next size up is really OVERSIZE and pricey to say the lest.
So, for now, and I'm still searching for that PERFECT size safe, I did find this. Its a fire proof (flame resisted really) document bag.
Its just something to think about?

 

Thanks for the link. What a great selection of coin display cases . Can't get any more classy than those cases.

 

I'm afraid that my collections are in safe deposit boxes and boxes inside of them.

The first Red Book that I received was the 13th Edition. It was a Christmas gift along with the two Whitman Cent holders, 1909 to 1940 and 1941 to date. I still have the Red Book and the second cent folder. The earlier one was lost when I upgraded to a Liberty of Coins album in the late 1960s.

 

Mine are all stored differently.

My slabbed coins are inside PGGS/ NGC coin boxes. Proof coins/ sets are still housed in original presentation boxes
My raw graded coins are in 2X2 SAFLIPS/ in Lighthouse Albums.

 

Rotates head and squints; is that a Leontius? Nice.

 

Thats just a tiny bit of my collection. I have the easy to get Leontius II 695-98AD
But I need the Leontius I from 4th Century AD. They say, some could be in Hermitage museum St. Petersburg/ I have never seen one in auction.

 

I use Eagle albums for my 19th century political collection.

 

Museum quality display

 

I have posted many photos of the trays in which I keep my coins, and won't repeat them. But here's a photo of one of the two Lindner trays I keep upright in book holders, this one holding all my Roman Imperial silver from Augustus to Severus Alexander. (The coins are blurry in the photo because the trays are in their sleeves to hold them in place, but it gives an idea.) The second upright tray holds Imperial silver and billon from Sallustia Orbiana to Postumus. I keep all my other trays of ancient coins stacked flat on the same table -- with the Roman Republican tray on top so I can always see it -- along with a glass display cabinet holding some of my larger British and French historical/art medals.

 

Do you store your byzantine CONCAVE coins into that system? If you close it like a book it will be cracked/destroyed.

I will not dare to put (fragile) concave coins into that system.