Cardboard coin holders

[purplepennyhunter]

I have a few if these and they are beaut for large storage in small spaces!
http://www.renniks.com/main.aspx?pageid=391&cat=&pid=3939

I have one of these. I don't like it because the lid isn't secure.

[Fordprefect]

Keep an eye out at markets for obsolete
3 1/2" floppy disc storage boxes.
Can hold up to 120 2X2
PCGS slabs fit in them as well.
Lockable lid too.

[Fulvio]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/13-Slide-trays-which-hold-100-slides-each-/121125849162?pt=UK_Photography_Slide_Trays_Carousels&hash=item1c33a9c84a

OK, its in the UK, but 1,300 2x2's for one quid is hard to beat. And I bet they turn up locally at similar prices.

[robbiegal]

mine all sit there empty now cause I use the saflips
no stapling anymore which I luuuvvvv
but the little flippy thing doesn't sit right in the box, so mine are just in a little stack in the cupboard
they are useless for anything else really

[ausjack]

sorry I just meant that I think they should be $5

[r9453]

mine all sit there empty now cause I use the saflips
no stapling anymore which I luuuvvvv
but the little flippy thing doesn't sit right in the box, so mine are just in a little stack in the cupboard
they are useless for anything else really

:hi: You mean the old 2x2s sit there empty? Mine too, I can't toss em cause I paid good $ for them.

Are you saying you have saflips not in album pages? :dontknow: At this stage I only have 500 saflips and they are reserved for my best coins which I place in an album pocket. In fact I have 1500 non-PVC album pockets waiting for saflips to replace the old 2x2s.

[robbiegal]

ta
didn't mean you to feel hassled Jack

[Fordprefect]

mine all sit there empty now cause I use the saflips
no stapling anymore which I luuuvvvv
but the little flippy thing doesn't sit right in the box, so mine are just in a little stack in the cupboard
they are useless for anything else really

:hi: You mean the old 2x2s sit there empty? Mine too, I can't toss em cause I paid good $ for them.

Are you saying you have saflips not in album pages? :dontknow: At this stage I only have 500 saflips and they are reserved for my best coins which I place in an album pocket. In fact I have 1500 non-PVC album pockets waiting for saflips to replace the old 2x2s.

Don't you ?

Me right now.

[ausjack]

all good robbie, just like most others here I've found out the hard and expensive way about PVC storage as I had those stinkin A4 pages and I've been using 2x2's and some of those plastic jobs but still looking for something nice and only keep good coins or rare like the wavy66 or incuse 50

[r9453]

Don't you ?
Me right now.

Ack! No I don't, like I said I have album space available. Gawd, Rob the Elder :big_boss:

[robbiegal]

Fordie
I have my coins in flips in pages in albums
I don't have a lot - just a few shelves of albums
some other coins in the eagles
the old coin boxes are empty and yes, hundreds of paper 2x2's in a box   'ýa never know when you'll use them'
gradually selling them off to the hubby

[ausjack]

totally awesome thanks heaps robbie and you have some nice coins there :good:

[robbiegal]

ooops
they are supposed to be in another thread
i'll have moved the pics over
sorry ... Robbie

[Fulvio]

OK, since I promised to document my workflow and storage, here's a few quick pics. Pardon the lighting, the only flat surface handy was the pool table, which is not set up for photography. Also, for those who don't know how to build HTML pages, I've put a very simple index.html in this folder, which you can use View Source in your browser to have a look at:

http://goo.gl/mJ7BW
Click the link above for all the pics.



Now, basically I start with a stack of those 500g mushroom tubs Aldi and others sell them in. Really good cos they're tough and stackable.

In the first pic you can see five tubs. Up top are one for "keepers" (low mintage years, UNC, things to be looked at later...) and one for "errors". At the bottom is a stack of two, the bottom one unsorted source coins from the bank, the top one for rejects. Put a strong light over them, grab a handful out of the bottom tub, add magnifier, drop the rejects, stash the keepers. The fifth tub has 9 1999 cud errors, and a pristine 1988 that came out of this current batch this morning. On the right is a 15-pocket page with a dozen of those 1999 cuds, and on the left one of my albums with a sheet of 10¢ 1999 cuds and a few upsets. Note how an album is a really poor way to store bulk coins. It would take nearly 100 pages to store what's in this pic, not to mention the mounts/flips.

The next couple of pics just show the way the tubs work, and the errors that are going into that page.

Now we come to the how-to. Take a poly bank bag, add four coins. Fold so that the zip is alongside the coins (to stop them moving around), and slip into a pocket.

Here we have closeups showing why that one 1999 is in a mount. It has doubling and a chin cud as well.

Now, the slide trays. Here are two different sorts. The standard one has two trays of 50, for 100 capacity. The Agfa CS has four trays of 40, for 160 capacity in the same space. However, its not as convenient to work with. Tolerances are tighter, the 50¢ coins, as you can see, are a little too thick for the slots, and you have to use packing to keep the trays and coins in place. To stop the trays moving, I use little bundles of ice cream sticks, and to stop the coins falling out of the trays I jam yet more bank bags in between, as you can see in the last shot. Depending on which type used, these stackable trays fit 400 or 640 coins on a shelf in the same space as two phone books or ring binders.

Oh, one thing I forgot to shoot details of. If you look at the upsets in the album in the first pic, you may see that they are packed two 2x2's in a bank bag, which is then held in a 9-pocket page. The mounts fit snugly into the bags, with one tab overlapped, and a single fold brings the ziplock to the side, helping hold it in the page. Even allowing for the top row only having one coin per pocket, this still gives 15 coins per page, and 9-pocket pages are very easy to come by, since kids use them for their Pokemon cards.

As well as these storage methods, I also use bank bags when there are mountains of the same type. Like 3-1/2 claws or double bars for example. In this case I jam the coins tightly in two rows in the bag, then stack the bags in sacks, add a cable tie and labels, put the sacks in milk crates which then go off to long-term storage.