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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26673924, member: 10461&quot;]I sort chronologically by the date that particular coin was struck.&nbsp; But for some stuff I collect (ancients, for example), that info can be vague.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ll line my ancients up according to the earliest date in their timespan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take, for example, the first two coins listed in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordmarcovan-my-ancient-medieval-collection-to-1600-ad-as-of-fall-2025.419182/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordmarcovan-my-ancient-medieval-collection-to-1600-ad-as-of-fall-2025.419182/">my ancients collection</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Syracusan octopus litra might actually be older than the Phokaia hekte, but since we cannot know their exact dates- only a range- I put the hekte first, because the earliest date in its range is slightly earlier than the earliest date in the litra’s range, by eight years.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701871[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Chronological sorting by coin date, not type, is the only thing that consistently makes sense across my entire collection, which spans 25 centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>It only starts to look wonky in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordmarcovan-my-united-states-coin-collection-as-of-fall-2025.419185/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordmarcovan-my-united-states-coin-collection-as-of-fall-2025.419185/">my US collection</a>, merely because people are more accustomed to seeing those sorted by denomination and type.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sort by coin date first, THEN alphabetically by country name (in the World stuff), THEN by denomination, and only after that would I sort by type, as I would have to do if there were both an 1883 Shield nickel and an 1883 Liberty nickel in my collection, for example.&nbsp; The Shield nickel would go first, obviously.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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