Every collector should have one of these!

laurentyvan

I was lucky to find this old library card catalog some years back. It has 60 drawers 16" deep which will hold approx. 3000 slabs or in the neighborhood of 15,000 coins in cardboard holders. It seems to be perfectly sized for our hobby.
I think I paid $150-$200 for it at an antiques mall in Canandaigua, NY. It allows a level of organization and access difficult to duplicate.
I have often wondered how other collectors organize and store their collections (I use binders as well of course). So, if you have images of your setup and want to share, please do so.

duki

Very nice, that brass hardware is worth the price alone.

duki

I have something similar but it was taken over by my daughters arts and crafts stuff.

Yorkshireman

Cool idea! Interesting expansion on the "Box of 20" concept.
However, if you have any where near 3000 slabs or 15,000 raw coins, I would contend that your set is not the quality it could be.

laurentyvan

Yorkshireman, that person would probably be a dealer.
As an eBay seller in past years I had stamps, magic cards, antique postcards, paper money, maps and all all manner of ephemera stored in that unit and I still had empty drawers.

laurentyvan

Nice cabinet Duki! Arts and crafts eh?

TwoKopeiki

Neat idea. I see these for sale from antique dealets from time to time. One of these days when I buy a house my pet project will be building a coin cabinet. Maybe by then my collection will be more than just 60 coins.

Stork

Nice set up...and would work great for dealer-ish tendencies. Even my husband loves it. He apparently 'has always wanted a card catalog but never knew what to do with one' which is news to me.

Andres

Here's my coin cabinet, Carthago style with a Punic statue (Lady of Elche) on top.
only unslabbed Roman,Sicily , and greek coins inside, stored in wooden boxes.

laurentyvan

Wow!!!

Nap

My cabinet:
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/901717/my-coin-cabinet

I am considering looking for something a little more elegant and better tailored for coins though

lordmarcovan

You go, Cabinet guys.

This is the kind of nonpolitical "cabinet" discussion I can handle, though I am cabinet-less myself (no space in our tiny home, alas).

I'm not quite as interested in the the other kind of "cabinet" discussion which will no doubt ensue in Washington soon

danglen

I bought the first of my card catalog units about 15 years ago when I opened my first shop. We now have about (15) of the 72 drawer versions in our shop and have found them to be ideal. They are getting harder to come by. The last two I bought came from Ohio and I paid about $400 each for them plus shipping.

1630Boston

Mr. Dewey would be proud.