Here's a tip you might like, if you use slab albums with 9-slot pages.
lordmarcovan
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If you get 9-pocket baseball card (trading card) pages, you can snap one of the pages into your slab album as an overlay for each slab page. The pockets in the trading card pages directly overlay the slab slots in the slab album pages.
I found the trading card pages at an office supply chain store, but they're easily found online.
You can use the trading card page for a title or short info card for each coin. In the back side of each trading card pocket, I keep the invoices for the coins (folded up), and the original flip inserts, if I bought the coin raw (as I do with almost all of my Ancients).
I'm thinking of switching to one full page sheet protector for each coin, so I don't have to fold up the invoices, and I can print out my full writeup on each piece.
But I decided to try this nine-pocket "overlay" method, and it works great.
(The bottom left slot is shown empty because that Hadrian tetradrachm is headed off to NGC soon.)
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Nice idea LordM
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That is a great idea LordM.... I do not keep slabs in an album, but might someday. Will keep this in mind. Cheers, RickO
Excellent idea. That is exactly the pages that I use to keep my slabbed coins. I have been printing the descriptive information on the reverse side of a sheet of paper and placing it in front of the respective slab page. Your idea is much more versatile. A blank sheet of paper in a protective sheet may still be nice as a background for the coins.
For the pages that I keep in a safe deposit box I remove them from the binder to save space and secure them with ty wraps through the holes.
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Nice idea
Excellent display
Ain't no staples in my pics...?
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This is a great idea. Thanks for sharing. Peace Roy
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Those do indeed display the slabs nicely...
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Good idea - looks nice!
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Great Idea.
You could also print out the TVs for each coin and insert them into the baseball sleeves.
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I guess you could do that, but they’d have to be printed out pretty small, and slid into the pocket sideways.
UNLESS you cropped them to use just the obverse pic, I suppose.
Going with full-page sheet protectors- nine pages of those between each slab page- you could fit the TV or other images, as well as a short writeup, into each. I may go that route eventually.
Neat idea but you should not keep invoices with the coins. If they get stolen, you will not be able to prove you had them in the first place. I doubt if insurance,if you have it, would pay off on a claim without proof.
Yes, someone else on CoinTalk pointed this out.
My collection management site has a place to upload and privately store invoices (though I have not done that yet). In any event, the albums are only for show-and-tell display when visiting coin friends (which isn't often). Most of the time the coins will be in the safe deposit box, and those pages with the invoices and such will be in the (empty) albums at home.