Poll: do you like my new flip design?

@Severus Alexander- aside from agreeing with the suggestion that you lighten the background grey in your monogram, I quite like what you've done here, and have been impressed with many other folks' solutions as well.

This is a timely thread, as I only recently came up with a new flip insert myself. It has been challenging. I want something that will pack a lot of info into a very small space (one side of a 1.7" x 1.7" insert for a 2" x 2" standard double-pocket safety flip.)

And I need something that will work "across the board" for all different kinds of coins, both ancient and modern. I started with some of my ancients to see how this would look, as they are more likely to require dense blocks of text.

Below is a 300% screenshot of one such insert. The font in actual size is necessarily tiny (5-point Times New Roman; 4-point only where needed). But I've printed some out and they're readable with my specs on.

I'll have to post a picture of a printed one inside a flip, later.

 

OK, that one above was not an ideal choice, since it shows an error I later corrected (the word "branch" in "olive branch" ran outside of the cell margins in the reverse description).

Here's another.

All that info fits (if barely) on one side of a 1.7 x 1.7 inch tag! I have found that that is the largest dimension that will still slide inside the pocket of a 2x2 flip. And I use card stock, since regular-weight paper "bows up on you" too easily, as I'm sure many here have discovered.

 

PS- the @Severus Alexander updated version looks very nice.

I like the bullet points with general info on the back. I might adopt and adapt that idea myself, since I've still got the whole back side of these inserts to play with.

I think your new design with the logo and collection name at the bottom is even better.

 

Thanks. Where's the "Canadian spelling" come into play?

I appreciate your posting this because I've been wanting to brainstorm with others over these flip inserts. You not only beat me to it, but gave me some ideas as well.

I wanted an "across the board" sort of template that could be used for all the coins in my collection and in my tiny sales inventory as well, be they ancient or modern, world or US.

Hence the left-hand columns to categorize the information. This way, as I'm filling out the right-hand column of the template, I am less likely to forget to include some piece of information.

This might prevent future issues like, "Oops! I forgot to record the diameter before having this entombed in plastic!", as seen below.

(Of course ceasing to entomb my coins in plastic slabs in the first place would solve that particular issue, too...)

 

PS- though it's still a work in progress, I'm happy to email the MS Word document containing my inserts (as seen above) to any of you who'd like to beta-test them, so to speak, and tinker around with them to adapt them to your own purposes.

Something like this could be combined with someone's personal collection logo, along the lines of what @Severus Alexander has done here.