I have mine in 2x2 flips with an insert card that I make for each one. On the outside I have the country, KM#, a picture of the country's flag, the year and value of the coin. On the back I have the mintage, silver content/weight, diameter, how much I paid for it, and the grade.
Depends - some are just laying on my table ( they are my newest additions ) , some are in boxes , most are in folders and albums , and then my rarest/most valuable pieces are in coin capsules, which are then stored in boxes like a little pirate treasure . I try to keep them organised- separated by country/region/continent but some are just laying together ,all jumbled up together . I just buy what I like when I can and put it into random albums . Every now and again I take stuff out said albums and organise It a little .
Basically it goes - Table - Album(general ) - Specific album or Table -( capsule )- Treasure Chest
Placed into black 2x2 self-adhesive flips. I prefer black to white for the greater contrast. Each coin then placed into sheets, simply in date order. Sheets organised by value (lowest to the front).
For standard issue coins, I only place the earliest issue date in as I don't want a run of all the same designs.
So, we start with the Alphabet 10ps, then 50p, £1, £2, £5* & a few earlier bits of silver.
*£5 also includes the earlier Elizabeth II crowns et al, up to & including the 2008 issues which were the last ones available at post offices at face value.
For details on the coins, I wrote my own little guide. It starts with a bit about the different portraits, then the standard issue coins and then the commemorative issues. Both sections ordered in value, lowest first.
Some are simple fact files, some have more detailed descriptions (particularly the commemorative issues).
As you can see, the little “fact file” has the title above, a black & white picture to the left and key stats (issue year(s), mintage, portrait info, edge inscription (if applicable)). Then addition info I thought was interesting. Some do waffle on a bit in hindsight, but it works for me.
British-ish Coins
Pretty much identical to above, although I'm yet to create the fact file for them. The Crown Dependencies are first, then the British Overseas Territories. If properly organised they should be in date they became part of the UK family but often it's just the most recent addition ends up on the top.
I only count them if they issue proper coins for circulation use, not just “collector coins”.
Ideally they are in the below order:
Jersey (1204)
Guernsey (1290)
Isle of Man (1765*)
Bermuda (1612)
Cayman Islands (1670)
Gibraltar (1713)
Turks & Caicos (1783)
Falkland Islands (1833)
Saint Helena & Ascension** (1834)
Italics I don't actually own any coins for, but that is their hypothetical place. I've tried to use dates when absolute British (or predecessor nations, mainly/all(?) English) control was either asserted, generally recognised internationally, or was reasonably settled thereby. Obviously, many of them have very complicated histories.
*I'm aware the IoM was in both English & Scottish hands at varying earlier points in history, but it seems to have been conclusively given it's current status in 1765. However, all dates still would put them behind Jersey & Guernsey so doesn't really make much difference.
**I'm aware Tristan da Cunha forms part of the legal collective but they don't seem to use their own currency preferring standard GBP.
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I'll have to get back to you later on my banknotes 😁
A little more complex but I'll try to describe it. As the earliest notes were issued pretty much haphazardly & often times by just about anyone who had enough to try and create a bank, I've generally deemed them as “historic” notes.
So my collection starts with the banknotes issued by HM Treasury in 1914, followed by the first concerted effort by the Bank of England to create actually fully designed banknotes ("Series A") rather than just the white banknotes issued previously.
Following that, we have the extant issuing banks of Scotland by their creation date, then the extant Northern Irish issuing banks. If an extant bank has absorbed other banks, the absorbed banknotes follow directly after the bank of which absorbed it.
The banknotes are grouped into Series like the BoE issues as much as possible, even if they weren't officially declared as such.
If a bank issues commemorative notes, they are placed behind all “Series” notes, but before any absorbed banks, simply in the date issue order.
Like the coins, after that follow the Crown Dependencies & the British Overseas Territories. Again, following the dates provided earlier assuming I have any notes for them. It's actually an incredibly poor showing, so barely any actually appear but the theory is there.
After that, we move into the historic notes, largely the provincial banknotes. They're not in any particular order, simply the order of which I've collected them. They're often too frail to be reorganising often.
Behind that comes the “oddments”. So, forgeries (currently only two Operation Bernhard notes), modern private issuers (Presently only the Jason Islands), British Military notes, advertisements by companies which made banknotes, and bits of other banknote ephemera like designs proofs & similar.
If you're trying to make sense of it:
UK
1st Treasury
2nd Treasury
3rd Treasury
BoE Series A (Pre-WWII issue “Unthreaded”)
“ ” (Emergency Issue)
“ ” (Post-WWII “Threaded”)
BoE Series B
BoE Series C
And so on up to Series G (sub-divided into the Elizabeth II & Charles III)
Scotland
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Bank
Union Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
Commercial Bank of Scotland
National Bank of Scotland
National Commercial Bank of Scotland
Clydesdale Bank
North of Scotland Bank
Northern Ireland
Bank of Ireland
Northern Bank
Ulster Bank
Crown Dependencies
British Overseas Territories
Provincial Banks
“The rest”
And some other stuff I keep in a suitcase. Like some security posters & leaflets.
And this old bank record book used in 1884 which helpfully contains a list of all branches
Those black flips do look quite striking. I had bad experience with the self adhesive flips, where they don't stay sealed very well and the coin slips into the sticky part.
I've not had any trouble at all with self-adhesive, except on the absolute largest size used for crowns & £5. Even then, it's more just the size doesn't leave much room for the adhesive so sometimes they can be hard to seal. Once they are sealed, usually they're good.
I don't like having to seal with staples, always looks too untidy for me. So far as I can tell, black only comes as self-adhesive anyway. 🤷🏼♂️
None of mine have ever slipped, although the collection is usually stored flat rather than standing so I suppose gravity doesn't affect it. So might be that more than anything else.
Downside with black is when they get edges bumped, sometimes the cardboard underneath shows and the contrast (which is great on the coins) really shows so they look tatty more easily than the white. You can really see it on the 50p photo, around the ones on the right-most column, bottom three coins in the column.
Very nice! But I wonder about these pages 👆. Do you know for a fact that the plastic is acid-free? I have pages with three sleeves that are acid-free, but larger banknotes (i.e. older banknotes) don't fit.
I mean, in so far as I trust the manufacturer & supplier, they are acid-free. I don't imagine it's worth lying about when it's your brand name at stake.
Bullet point 5 says free from acid. Was the best I could find. Range of sizes for full page, 2 split, 3 split which work for notes.
Always buy from a company in Denmark (Nordfrim), who are a large reputable dealer - mainly for stamps but the stuff works for notes.
In part because I don't trust ebay sellers not to replace them with other cheaper options but pass off as real. But mainly it's price. Think a pack of 50 is £25 from Denmark. 10 is like £16 on ebay. Figure I might as well bulk buy. 🤷🏼♂️ Deliver pretty quickly too.
Oh! It's Leuchtturm / Lighthouse so especially designed for coin and stamp collectors. I'll try to get some at the next coin show I attend, hopefully in Toronto in early October. I'm pretty sure they'll be there.
Placed into black 2x2 self-adhesive flips. I prefer black to white for the greater contrast. Each coin then placed into sheets, simply in date order. Sheets organised by value (lowest to the front).
For standard issue coins, I only place the earliest issue date in as I don't want a run of all the same designs.
So, we start with the Alphabet 10ps, then 50p, £1, £2, £5* & a few earlier bits of silver.
*£5 also includes the earlier Elizabeth II crowns et al, up to & including the 2008 issues which were the last ones available at post offices at face value.
For details on the coins, I wrote my own little guide. It starts with a bit about the different portraits, then the standard issue coins and then the commemorative issues. Both sections ordered in value, lowest first.
Some are simple fact files, some have more detailed descriptions (particularly the commemorative issues).
As you can see, the little “fact file” has the title above, a black & white picture to the left and key stats (issue year(s), mintage, portrait info, edge inscription (if applicable)). Then addition info I thought was interesting. Some do waffle on a bit in hindsight, but it works for me.
British-ish Coins
Pretty much identical to above, although I'm yet to create the fact file for them. The Crown Dependencies are first, then the British Overseas Territories. If properly organised they should be in date they became part of the UK family but often it's just the most recent addition ends up on the top.
I only count them if they issue proper coins for circulation use, not just “collector coins”.
Ideally they are in the below order:
Jersey (1204)
Guernsey (1290)
Isle of Man (1765*)
Bermuda (1612)
Cayman Islands (1670)
Gibraltar (1713)
Turks & Caicos (1783)
Falkland Islands (1833)
Saint Helena & Ascension** (1834)
Italics I don't actually own any coins for, but that is their hypothetical place. I've tried to use dates when absolute British (or predecessor nations, mainly/all(?) English) control was either asserted, generally recognised internationally, or was reasonably settled thereby. Obviously, many of them have very complicated histories.
*I'm aware the IoM was in both English & Scottish hands at varying earlier points in history, but it seems to have been conclusively given it's current status in 1765. However, all dates still would put them behind Jersey & Guernsey so doesn't really make much difference.
**I'm aware Tristan da Cunha forms part of the legal collective but they don't seem to use their own currency preferring standard GBP.
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I'll have to get back to you later on my banknotes 😁
Wow !!! Very impressive.
The small collection of assorted bags and boxes of coins I had stashed around my room when I still lived with my parents as a young man were transformed when my soon to be Mother-in-Law bought me my first album from the local newsagents in Gouda, The Netherlands, way back in the 1980s. That album was from the Dutch manufacturer ‘Importa’.
Despite an uncertain period a few years ago when the company had some difficulties, only selling poor quality rigid pocket sheets that easily broke, I stuck with them and now have a number of albums for my circulation coins organised into either individual countries or continents (depending on the size of the collection from each individual country). However, all these albums are now getting rather full and I'm rapidly running out of spare pages, so a birthday or Christmas restock my be required sooner rather than later.
She also later bought me two HB (Hartberger) albums for my rapidly expanding collection of Dutch coins (Juliana and Beatrix). I still have one or two spaces to fill, but there may be opportunities for swaps or the occasional strategic purchase once I've gone through the various bags of Dutch coins I've put aside.
Over the years I've also accumulated a fairly sizable collection of Dutch ‘coin cards’, as well as annual uncirculated sets from the UK and NL and the odd commemorative proof coin, which I currently have stashed in various boxes awaiting an inspired decision on how to display them.
Overall, I have far too many coins (which I am somewhat loath to admit), but I'm still in the process of sorting through them. I really should have started to specialise years ago, but all the time the eyes still light up and the heart begins to race a bit when a new find comes by, why stop? Love my coins.
For mine, I do the banknote pages with clear pages for all my better notes (NZ, UK, Australia and my Pacific Island notes) and just plastic sleeves for all the common stuff like US $1 etc. Don't have any photos of albums, just of coins and notes - will rectify that.
My cheaper and common album pages with some creative modern coin arrangement.
My better coins are in folders with 20 pocket BCW pages and the 2 x 2 Saflips. The second pocket gets a homemade card about the coin I make myself with 200 gsm card and my stamp guillotine.
Saflips with home made cards.
Lesser coins (Base metal, modern, common) are in plastic slip albums (Good ones, no cheap Chinese crap).
I also store proof coins and sets in old shoe boxes well set out, also plastic wrapped sets and single coins etc in secure boxes. I also keep plastic bags full of world coins in biscuit tins and my safe has some gold coins and old medal. My best quality gold and palladium coins are all in a central city vault.
The vault room and a side room I can inspect all my valuables when I need to, and the actual metal box its stored in. Its behind bars and entrance through face scanning.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
. My best quality gold and palladium coins are all in a central city vault.
The vault room and a side room I can inspect all my valuables when I need to, and the actual metal box its stored in. Its behind bars and entrance through face scanning.
That's some James Bond stuff. Do you have to scan your retina to get access? 😉
Totally I look at a screen it scans my face, says my name and then says “Admitted”. Great stuff, may be a bit harder now I decided to grow a goatee.
I did take some photos of my displays and storage of coins, first my A grade notes, I only have 2 albums, 3 ring binders for Hagner Vario pages and some clear 2 pocket ones I bought cheap 2nd hand, but are safe and high grade. One album is a story of NZ notes from 1934 to the last series, except the current $100 note as I know how they are to find. The second album is Fiji, UK, PNG, Samoa, Tonga, Australia and a few random others.
NZ album, the first series 1934 is on the clear pages, 2nd series on Varios, but high face value notes have the clear pages too (Along with £5 old notes, as these huge horseblanket notes won't fit on 3 slot pages. I don't have any £50 notes yet as they are $3,000 plus, heck even the £10's were like $300 or $400 each!
The decimals are mostly on the Varios, here the rare Series 3 $20 star note and super rare $100 note, meet ultra common Series 4 $1 notes!
The second image is my $100 notes - all 4 dates/ signatures of Series 6 (Except 05, I kept 2 of the 1999) and a Series 7 note from 2016. The other note is a 2014 $50 note of series 6.
My albums are BCW 20 slot pages with coins in Saflips for half crowns and smaller. This page shows my oldest shillings from 1551 to 1637 and I have a couple of spaces in case I get another Elizabethan or Stuart Shilling and not to rearrange the whole darn date run! For some reason Top row I have an 1880s Elingamite (Shipwreck coin) and a Proof 1937 Scottish shilling next to my 1550s Edward VI coin!
The other image shows Double Florins and Crowns and added as I like to put large coins in like this, as 20 crown sized coins on these pages will rip them out in no time, it evens up the flow. The coins are zig zagged and pages underneath carry on the theme. The card occupies 2 pocket (A good dealers card I may keep and not even do my own in most cases) Good to balance weight.
For series with set dates from 1816 onwards (Solely, UK, Commonwealth and USA coins) I actually work out the spaces for each date and leave them bare until I get a coin to fill it. This is half crowns 1816 to 1841 (Although I don't bother with coins I wil never get like 1839 UK halfcrown, although 1841 and 1828 seem possible). Saves the hassle of having to rearrange whole collections and pages don't wear up well or last long with constant resorting. Easier to plan the album for each denomination and type and work out where each date/variety goes.
For common modern coins and base metal types I use plastic slide in pages (PVC free) and put them in these pages. Again I leave gaps for dates I can get. First page shows my Canadian base metal 50c (1968 on) and I am happy to slide them along, a couple of gaps for missing dates like 1977 though and you can see my twonies underneath.
Other page shows my Canadian pennies including all the rare dates like 1922 - 1926 (But no 1936 dot!). Here you can se I am missing some early 70s coins.
Finally for world mix coins, individual plastic bags in biscuit tins, kept downstairs to stop any chance of floor collapse, here you see old Denmark (1960s and older) and in the tin, spare US Half dollars (Muck metal) and a bag of better Danish coins in flips ($5 - $10 mostly each) and a bad that has Malawian in one and South Africa 1970s/80s base metal coins in others.
Hope this helps you all.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Since I started collecting this year, I still have a small collection, so I keep my higher value coins in a Ziploc bag, which I then put inside a sleeve made for Pokemon cards. Then I put everything inside an acrylic box, also designed to store sleeved Pokemon cards. For other low-value coins, I put them all in a small cardboard box.
I'm thinking about buying coin flips, but it's a bit difficult to find PVC-free flips with attractive shipping rates to France.
Thats how I started, every coin went in a plastic bag and stuffed inside one tiny metal box. As it got larger more boxes were needed and eventually when I chose to get serious again, out came the albums.
I look at your picture and think back to when my coin collection was that easy to manage - not the out of control behemoth of today.
Its a good start though, the coins look safe and you can see them entirely without needing to handle them!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Thats how I started, every coin went in a plastic bag and stuffed inside one tiny metal box. As it got larger more boxes were needed and eventually when I chose to get serious again, out came the albums.
I look at your picture and think back to when my coin collection was that easy to manage - not the out of control behemoth of today.
Its a good start though, the coins look safe and you can see them entirely without needing to handle them!
I'm glad to know that my photo brought back good memories for you! 😁
I think that as my collection grows, I will also start organizing it into albums. The problem I encounter with albums is the same with flips: it's difficult to find good albums without PVC and with an attractive shipping fee to France.
Why, any postage fee to France will be a zillion times worse to New Zealand. Good albums are made in Germany, cheap ones in China - either way the price will be so heavily marked up its not true. So my solution, I use old 3 ring binders with plastic or vinyl solid covers. I can buy new Marbig binders at a local chain store for under $20 (€10 each). As long as they are study, have big binder rings and can hold up to 4 kg of coin in 20 or 25 plastic pages, they are fine.
For banknotes I can use cardboard binders (But with shiny paper/polished card covers) and these are even cheaper.
I also have a couple of second hand albums, I kept from collections I bought in years ago. The original pages with the PVC are thrown out, but the cover and clips are fine and you just add new pages from PVC free materials.
I also have 3 padded albums in NZ called Wiljefs or warwicks which come with brass screws that can be bought in sets and special pages (Post PVC era hard vinyl) for like $4 each and $30 for the binder with 5 pages. These are for my cheaper albums like the red Canadian one in my post.
Real albums are crazy expensive, a Basic numis with 5 pages is like $189 our money and 10 years ago it was like $50. Our dollar is really weak, so importing anything is hard. In 2014 it bought 64 Eurocents, now its 49 cents and our worthless peso won't even get a single euro of CHF for 2 of them!
I also have a few push in cardboard albums for some cheaper stuff and again these come from collection buy ins. I have mostly Whitmans and a local brand called Bertrand for NZ spares.
All my albums are cheap, but do the job and make up for a lack of items here (You would need a kings ransom to buy a coin cabinet). It also means more money goes into buying coins and notes.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Why, any postage fee to France will be a zillion times worse to New Zealand. Good albums are made in Germany, cheap ones in China - either way the price will be so heavily marked up its not true. So my solution, I use old 3 ring binders with plastic or vinyl solid covers. I can buy new Marbig binders at a local chain store for under $20 (€10 each). As long as they are study, have big binder rings and can hold up to 4 kg of coin in 20 or 25 plastic pages, they are fine.
I picked up an album reasonably cheaply from, of all places, a diving supplies website. The guy who runs it must be a bit of a coin buff as well. it was less than $30 and holds up to 200 2x2 coin flips.
That's fine for my collection, at the moment I'm sitting around 30 coins, and I seem to be picking up a couple a week, so 200 will last me a year or two.
No shade man, but that looks like some Chinese PVC type stuff I would stay WELL away from.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Personally I don't really care about presentation, I keep all of my coins in little transparent plastic bags where I write which country they're from (excluding the normally circulating euros).
Generally, I keep my euros in one shoebox, each cut is separated into a plastic bag (the ones you can get at the supermarket to store fruits and vegetables), the plastic bags are for: commemorative coins, then 2 euros, 1 euro, 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, 2 cents and 1 cent.
All other coins and tokens reside in another shoebox in which only the more numerous countries are separated in smaller plastic bags like the euros, like Italy.
Additionally, I keep two small coffee capsule boxes, one is for storing coins I yet have to store in the shoeboxes, and the other is for the coins I have up for swap.
My few banknotes are kept in a photo album, which I'll have to change when I'll have too much
My cheaper and common album pages with some creative modern coin arrangement.
