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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;smullen, post: 825853, member: 5165&quot;]1st... Welcome to the site...&nbsp; Its a great resource and you&#039;ll find many grat conversations...</p><p><br /></p><p>On sorting.storing; You will find unlimited number of ways that different folks Store/Organize and catalog their collections...</p><p><br /></p><p>I put all my graded (NGC and PCGS) slabs in their respective slab boxes One type coin/Series to a Box then label the box with the Series-years-Box&nbsp; For example My Morgans, Jefferson Nickel Proofs, Lincoln Cent Proofs, SAEs each span more that what would fit in a single Slab box, so their </p><p><br /></p><p>Series-years-Box1of4 - 4of4</p><p><br /></p><p>My &quot;Raw&quot; coins are all in 2x2s that I ordered from JPs Corner (small really cool coin collecting supply joint) thats got everythng I need, decent prices and super fast delivery...</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I put the 2x2s in boxes that look like the NGC or PCGS boxes, but a tad slimmer...</p><p><br /></p><p>I label them pretty much the same way...</p><p><br /></p><p>The more valuable/imprtant ones, their boxes then go in my gunsafes, the other lesser ones go in a steel locking cabinet that I picked up from a used office suply joint...</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as records I&#039;ve not really found or set on one way...</p><p><br /></p><p>All my Graded coins go in my &quot;Sets Registrys&quot; on NGCs collecters society page...&nbsp; It works good for seeing what you have, what its graded at incase you want to upgrade and what you need to complete the series, then to see how it stacks up against other simmilar collections....</p><p><br /></p><p>I also use Excel Spreadsheet, with&nbsp; many tabs, one for each type coin or series...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also been playin with a few softwares written for tracking Coin Collections, but I&#039;m really having a hard time justifying their costs as compared to the spreadsheet...&nbsp; You don&#039;t havbe to use Excel, there are a number of Software creators out there that make an &quot;open Source&quot; Spreadsheet thats either free or really cheap to compete with the evil Microsloth Office.....</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to look around see what everyone else is doing for ideas as well as your own... Evaluate and see what works best for you...&nbsp; You might hate the spreadsheet idea or might love it...</p><p><br /></p><p>After everyone posts their ideas and ways, Let us know if you come up with something different than what gets shared that we may find useful...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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