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I have a feeling that I already asked this question once.

If so, please forgive me as I ask it a second time.

I am getting very near completion of my Australian 50 Cent Piece collection.  It is housed in a Dansco Album, and I feel it looks very attractive.

Here's the problem.

Gregk recently mailed me about a dozen of the 2006 Commonwealth Games 50 Cent Pieces.  They are packaged in cards, presumably by the Royal Australian Mint.

My problem is, do I remove them and put them in the Dansco Album, or should I just be satisfied that I own them, and leave them in the cards?

What would you do?

Thanks.

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Well, to answer your question, I have to ask a question.  Do you care if the value of your coins appreciates or depreciates?  If that matters at all, then leave them in the cards and plastic holders. If you don't really care at all, then take them out!  They'd probably look better all together in the set, but NCLT coins aren't necessarily meant to be exposed.

Ah, the perennial question, "Do I keep mint-packed (or TPG-slabbed) coins intact in their packaging, or bust them out and store them how I please?"

The  issues here are:
Keep 'em in:
 - The mint packaging is nice and airtight, and will probably preserve the coins better than an album.
 - Resale value will probably be better if kept in their original packaging.
 - The storage issue could be overcome with the help of album pages designed for credit cards or business cards, inserted into the album (if it's a ring binder or other type of album you can insert pages into).
 - That hard, credit-card-like plastic packaging the mint sells these coins in looks darned difficult to crack open without damaging the coin. Not that I've ever tried.

Crack 'em out:
 - The aesthetic value of having a "complete collection", nice and neat in it's own album, organised the way you want it.
 - Ask yourself, "Do I collect coins, or plastic packaging?". From that perspective, mint wrappers are very much secondary collectables.
 - Ultimately, the coins will probably outlast whatever packaging they're kept in, so you might as well store them in a way that has meaning for you, their current custodian.

Weigh up both sides of the "debate", and go with whatever option best fits the needs of what you're trying to do with your collection.

G'day,
re Sap's post.
That 'hard credit-card-like plastic is easy to open.
I opened a full set for my album.
regards,

i'am opening mine as i get them to put into a album.
but also on this note i'am trying to collect 2 of each. ;D

Gary, you just re-emphasised, why I don't use albums.

Personally, If I did use albums I  would crack those suckers out and put them in the album.
I doubt that you will ever sell them, so don't worry about the value.
You just enjoy them for NOW, let someone else worry about them LATER.

I would leave them in their cards and make an album of the NCLT coins, (such as 2x2 pages) and keep it with the regular album.  That way you would have the best of both.

madspec

The plastic capsules just pop out of the card. If you look at the capsule you will see how they open. You can then remove the coins and replace the capsules back into the cards and store them away in case you want them at a later date for the coins.

Have fun with your collection.

Thanks Guys!!

Your advice was great.

I'm tending toward putting them all in my album, but will give it a little more thought first.

Again, thank you,

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CC,
I have 2 sets of the Games coins, one that I opened and put in my album as you can see in another thread, and 1 I am keeping intact. There are 16 of these coins, btw. Your choice I suppose is the ultimate solution.  8)  Cheers.

Gary I have received numerous $1 commemorative coins with the various mint marks from a collector in Australia. I have found those small cards they arrived in carries a ton of information and history which I was not familiar with. Leaving them in the cards provides me the opportunity to remember why they were actually struck and what they were commemorating at the time for years to come. And, none of the coins have toned since I started receiving them and, quite honestly, I am afraid they will in an album.
Actually each of us face this dilemma with every coin we purchase------How to store and or display this coin and at the same time PROTECT it! It is a never ending battle we all fight every time we bring home an addition to our collection and the ulitimate answer to this problem lies with you! Good luck!

You are correct Terry.  It's hard to know which way to go.

I have some coins received from Triggersmob several months ago, and have not been able to take them out of their holders.

I still tend to think I'll take the Games coins from Gregk out of their holders and put them in my Dansco Album.

I'll take the "World Series Period" to think about it, and then make a decision when baseball once again takes a back seat to coin collecting.

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I'm afraid I have the same problem. I bought some mint sets to make up the gaps in my collection but now I can't bring myself to break them out.

 For the Aussie coins that I have in the mint packaging i use 2 different types oh Plastic sheets to house and display them.     For the larger ones(Gallipoli)and M2006 M mintmark commonwealth games) or (50 years of Australian Television) for example.       I use the 4 note currency page.   And for the smaller ones (2006 her Majesties Royal Visit), (2006 80th Birthday 50 cent coin) I use baseball card sheets which hold them nicely and allow me to hold 9 in one page.

Jim,

The way you display your coins are great, and they give me ideas for displaying my duplicates.

However, my problem continues to be my desire to complete my Dansco Albums, and I can't do that withour taking coins out of their cards, and breaking open mint sets.

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I usually buy 2 that way I keep one in the card in a 3 or 4 note banknote page, the other I take out, put it into a 2X2 and add it to my album.

You could do the same but add it to the Dansco Album, it just costs twice as much to collect this way.

Oh well ya can't take it with ya!

the way bm1947 does it is exactly the way I do it for American coins. I usually buy several of them an break one apart for my set. I am very methodical and i have to have the album to display them.

I took all my Commonwealth games 50c out of their plastic capsules which in turn are housed in the card.  I put them all in 2x2s.  The cards I stacked side by side in a seperate box. I did the same with plastic capsules (although they don't stack well  :D).  I bought 20 of each which is my usual habit. 

There was a special album designed for this set.
so mine is in the special album in the Mint cards
It is a nice piece for showing.

I use it with each youth & scout group I visit with.

Richard,

Any idea how I might see what the special album looks like, and then buy one if I like it?

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I haven't tried it with the 50 cent coins yet, but I've just started putting together a $1 album for my nephew. I have my collection in a Dansco album, so had to take the coins out of the capsule, but for my nephew's album, I'm using the 2x2s. With the $1 coins that have come in capsules, I have been removing the clear film from the 2x2 and just popping the capsule in. It does make the pages a little more bulky, but so far, seems to be working well. ............ Just tried it with the 50 cent capsules ...... a tight fit, but it works.

Here is a great set of pictures of the album and set located on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.ca/AUSTRALIA-MELBOURNE-18-COIN-SET-IN-ALBUM-2006-COMPLETE_W0QQitemZ320178822123QQihZ011QQcategoryZ545QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.ca/AUSTRALIA-MELBOURNE-18-COIN-SET-IN-ALBUM-2006-COMPLETE_W0QQitemZ320178822123QQihZ011QQcategoryZ545QQcmdZViewItem)

Thanks Richard.

Very Helpful.

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