Dear Friends
I hate slabbed coins. As soon as I get a slabbed coin, I break it and liberate it from its prison. I dont know, but slabbing coins seems to be pretty popular in the USA, as I see many such coins for offer. It may have its benefits, but I have to be holding the coin in my
hands.
I also do not like stapled cardboard
flips. I usually destroy them immediately and get the coins out there as well. I cant have that.
I use
flips. On every
flip (bottom right corner) there is a white sticker on which I my personalised number system. For example GRE0001, or OTT0928. Then I have a list that I update comstantly that explains these numbers with reference and that old chestnut. A full ID. As far as I can get. Each dynasty is organised in a unique fashion.
Roman coins are in chronological order, Umayyad coins are ordered according to Jund,
Ottoman coins are ordered according to the
mint city and so on.
Sounds complicated, but if I need a coin, then I can snap it out easily.
I then use shoe boxes that I devided into sections for empires and order the coins by numbers ie GRE0001, GRE0002 etc.
Shoe boxes are pretty lame and the section deviders are not stable, so I
hope to be ordering this one
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/indexfrm.asp?vpar=611&pos=0soon. I
hope it can be shipped to the UK. Such things here are so expensive. This is at a
bargain price for me.
I also use a little hand luggage
type with velvet trays for my
gold coins, again with the same label system, but instead of stickers I use a round card that I write on and put the coin on that.
For proof coins (I dont have many) I use these round plastic holders that you can open and close. Obviously I do not
handle them, but I have to have the coins in my
hands. Thats the way I enjoy my
collection.
Best wishes,
Burak