How should I organize my coins

Currently I have my coins and bills in a desk drawer, with my U.S. Pennies in a small plastic container in coin rolls, other US coins in a metal tin, my bills are unfolded in a sandwich bag, and my exonumia in another tin. As for my foreign coins, I have them split into six sandwich bags, one for each continent, with the currencies that I have a lot of in smaller plastic bags within the sandwich bags. Is this a good way to organize them, or should I organize them some other way?

Nobody can tell you how you should organize your coins.  Here are a couple suggestions:  

How do you store and manage your collection?

Having looked at your profile, you only have a few hundred coins to organise, in which ever way you like, but, as you collection grows, you may need to separate each country/issuer, within your continent bags. If each country bag has a label stuck to it, so finding what you actually have will be easier.

You have to imagine the potential chaos when you have, 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 coins.

I keep mine in special coin pages, held within a coin folder, thus keeping them separate from each other and in a country order of your making.

Some nice swap coins listed too

COINMAN1

Having looked at your profile, you only have a few hundred coins to organise, in which ever way you like, but, as you collection grows, you may need to separate each country/issuer, within your continent bags. If each country bag has a label stuck to it, so finding what you actually have will be easier.

You have to imagine the potential chaos when you have, 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000 coins.

I keep mine in special coin pages, held within a coin folder, thus keeping them separate from each other and in a country order of your making.

Some nice swap coins listed too

Yeah, for some currencies that I have in the double digits of coins, I keep them in a smaller plastic bag, and then put that plastic bag in the continent sandwich bag. The whole continent bag system I started two days ago, as before I was keeping them all in one metal tin, but it was getting hard to find specific coins I was looking for, so I split them up. My collection is starting to grow, slowly but surely, so I’m trying to think of ways I could organize the coins. The continent bag system would probably be a good way to organize them for a while, but if I get too much European coins (currently I have about 100), I may have to start thinking of a different way to organize them. But for the continents I only have a few of (Oceania: 10, Asia:9, Africa:1, and South America:0) they could stay as they are for a while before I have to worry about reorganizing them.

I have more than 44.000 different coins in 120 binders, but I'm reorganizing them, when no swapping takes place, reorganizing in the sense of sorting the coins in the binders by denominations, years and mints, leaving space, where I miss coins. That takes a heck of a lot of time and even more coin pages and binders……

I still have an album with coins from countries where I have less than 5 coins. They are just mixed in the pages.

In a way, I have been reorganizing my collection (and my doubles < 15.000)  since I started collecting.

It's a never ending task, but that's my choice😄

I think everyone agrees that there is no recipe.

Do what you think is better for you and your room.

And that comes from one of the least qualified people to answer such thing.

Because I just store my coins in boxes, without holders.

Far from the ideal (with holders, albums and all the stuff), but it's the most… compact way.

Early it was just one small box, now there are more than half dozen. One for Americas, one for Europe, one for silvers, one for Romans, and so on.

…And one cute small porcelain chest for my small gold coin.

rsirian1

Nobody can tell you how you should organize your coins.  Here are a couple suggestions:  

How do you store and manage your collection?

That thread has been running for 14 years, and it isn't the only one on the topic.

I put my stuff in this thread a few years ago, and at the end of the thread there is a guy doing very interesting 3D printed trays.

At least you won't need extra bags for Australia. It is a Country and a Continent in one. 😁

Cheers Mike

“bills unfolded in a sandwich bag..” 😖 

I use those rectangular blue note folders. Each note goes in its own mylar sleeve then in the folder. Might not be 100% the sturdiest way to store and display but works for me.

Pluto2181930

Currently I have my coins and bills in a desk drawer, with my U.S. Pennies in a small plastic container in coin rolls, other US coins in a metal tin, my bills are unfolded in a sandwich bag, and my exonumia in another tin. As for my foreign coins, I have them split into six sandwich bags, one for each continent, with the currencies that I have a lot of in smaller plastic bags within the sandwich bags. Is this a good way to organize them, or should I organize them some other way?

As long as you know where each coin is, your system is just fine.

It is a matter of choice how you store your coins, personally I have my more expensive coins in Linder trays and the less expensive coins in Schultz albums, but there again I am a bit ocd 

Hi , I use Lighthouse Quadrum and Quadrem Mini holders in Encap sleeves then in a binder. Between each Encap is a Black divider and a clear VST single pocket page. The VST page has an information sheet with all the details of the coins in each encap.

Similar for notes with 2 or 3 per page and the single pocket page with an information sheet before each one. 

It all looks pretty neat but does take up a bit of space, and a bit costly.

All my coins are in 5x5 flips, sorted in binders by country/topic in 20 per page sheets. I leave space for missing coins so that when new one arrives it has its designated place and I don't have to reshuffle all the lot. 

Sjoelund

In a way, I have been reorganizing my collection (and my doubles < 15.000)  since I started collecting.

 

It's a never ending task, but that's my choice😄

Same here.. that's the fun part of collecting per date and variety.. 🤣

I use the “slides” system.. what is very helpful in reorganizing and takes not that much space as 2x2 carton coinholders..