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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8356684, member: 118780"]Thanks [USER=93702]@Clavdivs[/USER]. I did consider using 20 pocket binder pages. I use them already for my modern coins - which consist of my pocket change from travels. The major reason I didn't go with 10 coins per page as you mention is I really want the titles for each coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty much everyone who looks at my coins doesn't care about coins. They just want to recognize various famous leaders and gawk at how old they are. I think only one person bothered to try to read the tags, so I wanted this information front and center - which is difficult with the binder pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm OK with 4 coins per page. That means the 4 albums I have already can store a total of 800 coins (4 x 50 x 4). I currently own 180 coins, so by the time I reach 800 I should feel OK buying another album. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>One change I just noticed, though, is adding the databaseId for each coin. In case something happens to me, that will allow my family to correlate the coins to my database, where I have information about exactly when, where, and for how much I purchased each coin, though I keep prices in the original currencies to discourage me from ever summing the total...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8356684, member: 118780"]Thanks [USER=93702]@Clavdivs[/USER]. I did consider using 20 pocket binder pages. I use them already for my modern coins - which consist of my pocket change from travels. The major reason I didn't go with 10 coins per page as you mention is I really want the titles for each coin. Pretty much everyone who looks at my coins doesn't care about coins. They just want to recognize various famous leaders and gawk at how old they are. I think only one person bothered to try to read the tags, so I wanted this information front and center - which is difficult with the binder pages. I'm OK with 4 coins per page. That means the 4 albums I have already can store a total of 800 coins (4 x 50 x 4). I currently own 180 coins, so by the time I reach 800 I should feel OK buying another album. :) One change I just noticed, though, is adding the databaseId for each coin. In case something happens to me, that will allow my family to correlate the coins to my database, where I have information about exactly when, where, and for how much I purchased each coin, though I keep prices in the original currencies to discourage me from ever summing the total...[/QUOTE]
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