What kind of system do you guys have? I have a lot of low value, recent production foreign coins, some that have beautiful designs. Places like the Bahamas, South America, etc. I want to figure out a way to organize them in a fashion that I can view them, right now I just have them in ziplocks organized by country. But since these are fairly recent coins, non precious metal, I am wondering what a cost efficient method of sorting and organizing is. I'm leaning towards making binders with vinyl sleeves, what do you guys think?
Binders with non-corrosive sleeves is a great way to go. In the past, I have used 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 basic mylar stapled holders ... that's 30 to a page, rather than 20 to a page with 2 x 2's. There is ample writing surface for anything quarter-size and down. I use them for all my Canadian large cents which are actually a little bigger than a quarter. You have to write fairly small, but still easy to read. I have nearly 3,000 large cents holdered and paged in albums, all in 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 mylars in pages.
