At this time I have 140 attributed and photographed ancient coins. All of these are coins that I cleaned and identified, many times with help from my friends at CT. The description sheets are in two albums. Attached is a photo of two pages and the inventory list for one book.
I have done something similar for my imperial Roman and British coins and my 19th century American presidential election tokens. The difference is my emphasis has been on history surrounding the coins and tokens.
I like the binders and printed pages for each one -- that's a good system. I've got some printed materials for my coins like that which I keep in manila folders on my shelves or in file drawers. Most of the information I keep in a few different Word files. I've tried spreadsheets/Excel, but I have a lot of notes on each coin and found them too difficult to use. Word is easier, since at a glance I can see several paragraphs or pages per coin, if necessary. (I scan through my notes files every day.) Here are a couple of the brief entries in my document for coins with provenances that I want to keep track of. (I chose these two entries so I could get two on the screen at once, but some take up multiple pages.) There are a couple of other files I use that are actually longer (I just broke a couple up because I was worried they were pushing that maximum size for a .doc file. As you can see from the bottom corner, this one is almost at 600 pages.) I also use the "Bookmarks" in ACSearch.info. (You don't have to pay to create bookmarks, just register a free account.) The one I use most often is called "mine!": Others: (click to embiggen)
