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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1908389, member: 19463&quot;]The trays I have came in three sizes - 77, 40 &amp; 24 coins.&nbsp; The photo shows a 40.&nbsp; It contains coins too big to fit in a 77; coins too large to fit it go in a 24; I don&#039;t own any coins larger than a 24 would hold but my AE46 Ptolemy is getting close.&nbsp; The coins are in order by Sear number within their size range.&nbsp; That is one of the things that I really did not like about trays since it would be nice to have everything in one sequence like you can in flips but a 24 tray full of hemiobols is absurd.&nbsp; The first coin (bottom edge) is an AE27 of Gades and the opposite corner is a tetradrachm of Ptolemy X.&nbsp; At the time this was taken, there were a couple empty slots in this tray but when I bought a few more fat coins, I had a problem.&nbsp;&nbsp; That is the problem with trays but you just end up with a lot of blanks for a while and then have to buy more to fill the spaces.&nbsp;&nbsp; Smaller coins follow a similar order but some of them fudged the order a bit so all the coins of one ruler could fit in one or two trays.&nbsp; For Septimius, there was a tray for Alexandria, several for Emesa and several for Rome but they all got put in envelopes now (as have the Greeks).&nbsp; Trays were a lot of fun when I had enough to hold everything in a reasonable order but I decided not to buy more and go to envelopes since I have photos (all in proper order) on computer and the Nook I carry with me to shows.&nbsp; I will try to inspect every coin at least once a year but will probably lose some to bronze disease and laziness since envelopes are harder to scan for green than trays were.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have records of each purchase (from whom, when and how much) but not circumstances.&nbsp; You can see obvious groups like shows where I see my favorite dealer will have his name 20 times in a row and big sales like the Bickford-Smith collection have way too many CNG entries all together.&nbsp; Without these notes, I doubt I could recall as many as half of the coins but there are some from the 80&#039;s that remain clear.&nbsp; I probably have 1000 coins that I would not buy again if given the chance but none of you would (or should) buy them for what I paid and I don&#039;t see any reason to sell them for nothing.&nbsp; If we took all our coins from the regular posters here and mixed them in a bucket, I really believe that I would be able to sort out most of mine without references.&nbsp; Could you?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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