Coins - how do you show/store yours?

Spocker

So, I've been collecting for some time, with a focus on Irish Euro sets, and European Proof Sets. I bought a glass cabinet, and then some perspex risers to make the most of the space, but now I'm struggling to show off the various sets to their best.

I'm thinking that the larger proof sets are beginning to take over the cabinet, and some of the smaller, more recent gold proofs are being lost. Would anyone else care to share a picture of how they display theirs, or do you keep them all somewhere safer, not in their cases, etc?

Del.Monte

With a growing collection like that you should consider http://merrionvaults.ie/

In all seriousness though , it's a problem whether coins, postcards or whatever and I have yet to discover the best way to display anything that I collect - with shoeboxes being the current most popular choice.

Francie Barrett

Personally, I don't display much of what I own. I have a framed George Best fiver in my office - just because everyone else seems to have one! I have a 1964 Kennedy half dollar in an airtite on a stand in the living room, I have two nice silver Dollars displayed alongside.

Everything else is properly stored and hidden. I have different scales for how to store my coins.

€25+ coins will usually get stored in air tites. These are expensive, but for a coin where I expect the value to go up over the years, they are worth the investment. The air tites in turn get stored in hard plastic containers with silca gel sachets just incase there's moisture to worry about.

Any silver coins in non-worn condition not worth €25 get stored in 2x2 flips which in turn go into wooden containers (used to be used for slide film) that hold the 2x2's nicely. Makes it very easy to order and flip through the coins. Nice numismatics without silver get stored in the same way but in seperate containers. Silca gel sachets left in these as well.

Badly worn silver coins get stored in air tight hard plastic rolls/containers.

Coins worth face value get stored by country of issue in whatever containers I have lying around.

Wibbs

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Personally, I don't display much of what I own.

While I'm not a coin collector - other than in a big jar that goes to my local bank once in a while - I'm the same as FB. I display pretty much nothing of my daftly large collection of stuff(™). TBH I would love to, but I'm paranoid that displaying my various oddball stuff would be a scumbag burglar's pick & mix. :mad: My cabinet of curiosities is scattered all over my house to the extent I can have trouble finding items.