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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2425408, member: 19463"]What can we do so people will know they are in the ancient section? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Actually, years ago I kept ancients in that kind of album and even glued two pages together so the spaces would be thick enough for heftier ancients. In that day you could get such albums cheap or free from dealers who bought collections and removed key dates. Back then many people collected out of circulation so 95% of the coins in albums were worth face value. Shop owners would remove key dates and put the rest in the register. </p><p><br /></p><p>For small collections, I still like trays. When the collection grew too large, I moved to paper envelopes and look at photos 99% of the time. </p><p><img src="http://m3.i.pbase.com/o6/88/582688/1/108912613.OMFgA6Hh.0coins5896.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2425408, member: 19463"]What can we do so people will know they are in the ancient section? :) Actually, years ago I kept ancients in that kind of album and even glued two pages together so the spaces would be thick enough for heftier ancients. In that day you could get such albums cheap or free from dealers who bought collections and removed key dates. Back then many people collected out of circulation so 95% of the coins in albums were worth face value. Shop owners would remove key dates and put the rest in the register. For small collections, I still like trays. When the collection grew too large, I moved to paper envelopes and look at photos 99% of the time. [IMG]http://m3.i.pbase.com/o6/88/582688/1/108912613.OMFgA6Hh.0coins5896.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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