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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dave_in_delaware, post: 2583177, member: 82414&quot;]Greetings everyone. I have a general overall question for the collective knowledge base here at CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do you store and organize all of your coins??</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first stared cataloging my small world coin collection, I simply made small paper open-top envelopes for each country and put all the coins for that country in the envelope. I have a small open box where I keep the envelopes. For the countries that had a LOT of coins, I used a hard plastic container (no lid) to put all of the coins in.</p><p><br /></p><p>My US State Quarter Program collection has been kept in old plastic film canisters, mainly because that&#039;s what I had at the time. Each canister housed the entire year (5 States), and I&#039;ve since made another canister for the Territories quarters, and now larger plastic containers house the America the Beautiful series....</p><p><br /></p><p>I also collect pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars that I receive as change and ask for certain items from banks. This collection is also kept in either homemade open-top envelopes or some sort of plastic container. </p><p><br /></p><p>My collection consists of multiple coins of the same year and mintmark, too. Not just one of each. Some coins I have 10 of the same thing. One day my kids will inherit their own sets of things (assuming they&#039;re interested of course). </p><p><br /></p><p>So, with an ever-growing collection of multiples of coins, and a mix of homemade envelopes and miscellaneous plastic containers, I want to get more professional and official with my collection&#039;s storage and organization.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve looked at the 2x2 cardboard mounts as well as the CoinSafe square coin tubes, and I&#039;m thinking I&#039;d like to use these for the more professional storage options. The 2x2&#039;s would be for lower number world coins, and the coin tubes would be for pretty much everything else.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, how should I organize my collection, especially the quarters since there are so many varieties? One tube per year? One tube per state? And how do I organize a vast year collection of pennies? Would you do one tube per year (which would be a lot), or one tube per 10 years? Obviously, the more detailed of an organizational system the more tubes I&#039;d need, which can quickly get very costly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there&#039;s the whole labeling system, which would come after figuring out organization/storage.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do you organize/store your collections? Are there other storage options I should be looking at? </p><p><br /></p><p>Please let me hear some ideas so I can get a better understanding on storage/organization, so I&#039;m not drowning in little envelopes and plastic containers of coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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