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A Poll Question about coins in a double row box.

keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
If you have a double row box of ASE's by date with a tag indicating the date do you put the tag and then the coins or the coins and then the tag?? I know it sounds silly, but..................

Al H.

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  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Busy day in the shop? Hah, for me I would do in front of the coins.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coin then the tag.


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  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    I think of it this way, would you alphabetize things with the letter after the group? IE, ample, apple, then letter A... bag, bunch, then letter B.

    Letter in front indicates the group. Letter A ample, apple. Letter B bag, bunch.

    Same as what you're asking for the ASE dates.
    Dan
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    this is a back and forth with me and my boss. I have customers express confusion as to why the coins are before the date but every time he gives me back a box he has put them that way. at the same time if it is a box with no date tags the coins run by date away from the viewer.

    I finally told him I'll put them however he wants.
  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Please reach a consensus pronto.

    My day could be ruined waiting for the definitive answer. image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How are words listed in the dictionary? It starts with the letter, then the words follow....always begin with identification - follow with the items. Cheers, RickO
  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    is the tag slabbed?

    Repetition of ignorance is ignorance raised to the power two.

  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess I prefer the convention employed at used record stores: merchandise in front of the tag.
  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,143 ✭✭✭✭
    Before the coins.....

    Neither way really bothers me however.

    Takes a second to figure it out.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    either or
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,468 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just mark the opposite side of tags with the same letter and when someone complains, do a 180 with the box and say, there you go! image

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  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,307 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>this is a back and forth with me and my boss. >>



    Your boss is wired wrong.....

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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,047 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Just mark the opposite side of tags with the same letter and when someone complains, do a 180 with the box and say, there you go! image >>


    image This.

    Before is correct, though. Think old-fashioned library card catalog, or anything else filed by part of its name. Maybe you should additionally group them by decade (80s, 90s, 00s, 10s) with a different colored card and ask if you should put 90s before the 1990 coins or after the 1999 coins.
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Coin then the tag. >>



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  • mustangmanbobmustangmanbob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dual date the tabs;


    (down arrow) 1997 1998 ^

    That way, each date group is bracketed, with a down and up arrow.

  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes
  • jedmjedm Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Just mark the opposite side of tags with the same letter and when someone complains, do a 180 with the box and say, there you go! image >>



    Agree and good idea!
  • DavideoDavideo Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Dual date the tabs;


    (down arrow) 1997 1998 ^

    That way, each date group is bracketed, with a down and up arrow. >>



    Yes, I thought of this as well. Annoyingly unnecessary, but may reduce the number of pointless complaints...

    And to my mind putting the tag after the coins doesn't make any sense.
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    it's actually surprising how many think the tag should be after what it is helping you find. I can't immediately think of another filing system that works like that, can someone else help??
  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tag first is the only logical way to go, but some people are illogical. You don't need a tag at the end to tell you what coins you've already seen, unless you're suffering from short-term memory loss.

    Jim
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's not even that way on computers. The folder indicating what you're looking for comes first, the content follows within. Being computer files are arranged that way is evidence
    the way you want to file the coins is the vastly more accepted way and has been since the file cabinet was invented.

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    >>>How are words listed in the dictionary? It starts with the letter, then the words follow....always begin with identification - follow with the items. Cheers, RickO<<<

    +1
  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Tag first is the only logical way to go, but some people are illogical. You don't need a tag at the end to tell you what coins you've already seen, unless you're suffering from short-term memory loss. >>


    It's not coins you've already seen, as much as coins you are searching through at a given moment.
    And it could well be useful to have that info visible in some circumstances. There are often a lot of
    distractions at coin shows, so I don't buy your "short-term memory loss" argument, either.

    As a final note, when someone puts a box in front of me, the first thing I want to see is
    coins, not a big tag obscuring my view of them.

    YMMV.
  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,307 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>it's actually surprising how many think the tag should be after what it is helping you find. >>



    Kinda like reading a book and then finding out what the title is....

    I can't think of any filing system that is backwards...

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As a final note, when someone puts a box in front of me, the first thing I want to see is
    coins, not a big tag obscuring my view of them.


    this is a gross play at making a point, the tag with the date is about a quarter of an inch taller than the flips with the coins. it isn't like it's obscuring your view of anything. to use your example with the box being placed in front of you imagine you're looking for a 2005 ASE. when you see the tag, where do you expect to find the coins with that date, in before or after the tag?? most filing systems which have proven useful and successful place it after the tag indicating what you are looking for.
  • georgiacop50georgiacop50 Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭✭
    He sounds anal. Whoop his arse and take control of the situation.

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