I used to store my coins in 2x2 cardboard holders and then on 3 ring albums. But i have two problems with that: 1- I have my coins organized by country and by KM #, and when i got a new coin i have to move all the other coins to made a space and maintain the order. 2- These 3 ring albums became very hard to find (and expensive) here in Paraguay and i can't afford the quantity I need. The cardboard holders and the pages aren't a problem. I'm OK with the 2x2 holders, but i would like to hear other options than the 3 ring albums to store my coins. Thanks in advance
I too have had problems with 2X2 holders and a three-ring album, although different from your problems, Goossen. I had my coins in the 2X2s for some time and then decided to get an album. Here was the little problem that irked me with the album. When the coin was in the single holder, there was one piece of plastic between me and it. (Maybe it was PVC--I don't know the difference.) Then I slipped the 2X2 into the album, and now there were two thicknesses of plastic between me and the coin. I could see the piece, of course, but just felt that I was losing something. And then, of course, when I turned the page to view the reverse, the image would be upside down. Furthermore, those plastic (PVC) pages are stiff and ornery. They don't like to move around the rings of the binder. They creak and resist and it's hard to force them down to get them flat. Then when you do get a page flat--it would be on your left, of course--the next page, on the right, starts to get nasty and interfere with the first page by creeping around the binder ring and curving outward and get in the way. I kept my album for about two years, I think, and finally threw it away. I now keep my coins in 2X2s and in a long narrow box I bought at a coin shop. The coins are not exactly on display, but I can take them out of the box and spread them out on a coffee table or kitchen table and enjoy them. But of course when you do that, lighting is always a problem--the lamp is never in the right place--and it seems that coins just naturally cause problems any way they can and having thought all this out I just may take my whole collection out tomorrow and sell it except that I love the little...I can't say it, satootopo will edit it out. Goossen, I hope this little essay has been helpful to you.--gunsmoke
Howdy, I do a combination of things. Some coins that are discrete series, I keep in albums. Some coins I keep in long coin boxex designed to hold 2x2's. My int'l and slot coins I keep in a couple of 3 ring binders. And yeppers, I know about having to move a bunch of stuff. What I've done is add more pages and try to start each country with its own page. Granted I have'nt done it for all of them, but for many. This allows me some 'room to grow'. Then I have countries in alphabetical order and then by age - oldest to newest, and then by denomination. It's not perfect, but seems to work. peace, rono
