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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3495212, member: 76194&quot;]Confessions of a Numismatics Sinner, Update:</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m back in purgatory....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]925731[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As of yesterday I started to transition back to stapled 2x2 flips in a coin album. It basically came down to this, I&#039;ve been using parts of my collection to take to my son&#039;s cub scout meetings to promote coin collecting awareness, and also been sharing my collecting journey with a close friend who&#039;ve I&#039;ve gotten hooked on coins, and I&#039;ve found it hard to share having to sort through boxes of paper envelopes just to find one or two coins I might want to share with someone. It&#039;s great for storage, but not so much for when you want to view a specific coin or two in the heat of the moment so you can show someone else a specific coin you are talking about. For that, I find the old 2x2 cardboard holders easier to display the whole collection and find a specific time period, emperor, or an individual coin much easier. Plus I can show a coin off without it being manhandled. And it&#039;s easier for tiny hands to hold the coin in a 2x2 rather than raw, and I don&#039;t have to worry as much about it slipping and taking a quick trip to a concrete floor or another hard surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll probably be super busy over the next few weeks re-doing all the tags for my collection, but it will be a fun weekend project over the next few weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus doing 2x2s in folders will allow me to do things such as have one folder for Roman coins, another for Greek coins, etc., and use pages with graphics and information to divide my time coins by periods and regions, so that anyone viewing it can get information and context as to the history, time period, and region of the coins they are about to view in the next album page or two, etc. That&#039;s something you can&#039;t do very well with paper envelopes in a box. In a way, I&#039;m thinking back to how Stevex6 used to do that for his coins, and it&#039;s sort of grown on me after 4 years since I first saw how he displayed his collection. Sometimes things, like fine wine, need some time before you can come to appreciate it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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