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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3229815, member: 77413&quot;]I share all the concerns already mentioned. It’s a dilemma, for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>You want to have the coins and expend time, effort, and money to get them. Then you lock them away. They aren’t handy and you can’t see them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use photos and my computer to solve that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have all my animated coin portraits stored on a network storage device. I can access them from my home computers or iPhone at any tlme. In that sense my entire collection goes wherever I go.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also wrote some custom software that runs continuously on my desktop and laptop. It shows the animated images in random order on both monitors, giving each one 15 seconds before moving to the next.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]843141[/ATTACH]</p><p>(The sharp-eyed can see that I keep my birth-year Proof set on the desk, too.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There’s also a laptop with two more monitors, so I have four coins showing all the time.</p><ul> <li>I can see any coin at any time</li> <li>The animated images are fun to watch</li> <li>The coins are bigger and easier to see than with a loupe</li> <li>The coin does not need to be physically present - I could even sell them off</li> <li>I periodically get reminders of what each coin is like</li> <li>If something piques my interest I can always retrieve it for in-hand inspection</li> </ul><p>Here, for example, is how that 1930-S on the left monitor looks on-screen.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]843143[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And this is on the right.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]843149[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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