coin box

[Dick]

Now that I "got 'em", where do I "put em"? This is a box I made for the "flips". It holds between 750, and 1000 flips, depending on which denomination it has.

[eagames]

Dick,

That's a nice flip box!

I save some non error/variety cents in rolls instead of flips.
To hold them I use plastic cent tubes in the boxes that the dealers buy tubes in. Each box holds 100 tubes (5000 cents) and to get the boxes I ask for them at coin shops or I buy the partly empty boxes when I need tubes. They have foam inserts that hold the tubes and if you use several of the inserts in each box they hold up well even with full tubes.

If you made a wood box and used those inserts you would have a nice tube box to match your flip box.

By keeping them tubed by date it helps when I want to search for a variety, I grab the rolls from that year and search away. I find searching is simpler if I search one year and often re-search and am surprised at what I missed on the first search.

[walkingdude]

Dick, Nice box.

Eagames. I do the same with the tube boxes but my aunt makes the box stronger by duct taping the seams, adding cardboard and contacting the entire box.

[Dick]

only a month late, but related....
Mike, your aunt, and I have the same mind-workings. She taped the corners to re-inforce them, and (no laughing, now), I put 3/16 paneling inserts in my file cabinet, and safe, to keep the weight of the coins, et al, from snapping the spot welds! Now if the floor holds up.....
Dick

[walkingdude]

tell me about the wieght part. I have a very nice box that will hold 100 penny tubes, but I can't lift it.

[coop]

Just one? Got you beat there. Probably Chuck has a Coin Room to store his Rolled Cents. (He likes the paper rolls to save his BU coins)

[walkingdude]

Yeah, I figured he have to have a cement floor to hold that much weight.

[coop]

Dick: What do you use to hold the flips in place to keep them from falling over? It appear to be a cardboard piece. On flips you coulf probably get by with that, on 2 X 2's in a small box I buy the 2 X 2 in, I use coin tubes to hold the stacks in place and when you get more into the box you can remove one or two of them to keep the coins 2 X 2's from falling over. Works for me. I can use empty tubes or full ones. What ever is convient.

[Dick]

Mike, if you have four $25.00 cent boxes full of rolls, you will be able to lift them, ( I can, in two bags, even at 81 years). Maybe with just one hand! (you, not me!) It will hold almost 1000 flips, which weighs a little more than two boxes of cents. My box, when full is about 80 pounds, maybe more. It is just the right size for selling at the swapmeets, or maybe at a bourse table. You need room for the extras. It is made of 1/2" plywood, sides top, and the bottom is inserted into the sides to give it extra strength. It is 13X19-1/4, by3".
Dick

[Dick]

Coop, I use a short piece of pre-formed cardboard, that is used for keeping stacks together. I cut teach piece about an inch long, and push it in the row. The angle-shaped piece keeps everything in place, very nicely. The box will never actually hold 1000 for two reasons, One: the thickness of the flips, take up some of the room, but also is used, one on each end of the rows to keep the flips from being damaged by the lid, closing down onto them. These spacers are 3/16X 1-5/8X 2".. Total loss of capacity, about 25 coins.
Dick

[Dick]

ED, I take it that the boxes you guys refer to are about 12"X 12"X4". Which is roughly the same aas two $25.00 cent boxes, side by side. That would give you 100 rolls. It wouuldn't take much to make boxes that size, and alternating dividers would keep the tubes upright, depending on the material used. And, yes it would be heavy, but easily managed with two hands.
Dick

[Dick]

Coop, I have thought about that, and there is a solution: a groove in the dividers at random spacing will provide the uprights needed. So the flips "lean over a bit". They will be easily gotten, even so. I like the insert, becaust it "slides all the way to keep the flips upright. Once you get to 1" or less (it) is not necessary.
Dick

[Dick]

ED, I always have the flips in date, mint, P,D,S,and denomination. I can locate any coin with in seconds, by just knowing the date. That box has cents, nickels, dimes, and quarters. The "gold-plated "quarters are by themselves. I haven't figured out what I intend to do with them. Sure wasted a nice coin, when they did that!
]\Dick

[eagames]

Hi Dick,

Here's what they are, bigger than 2 $25 boxes together because tubes are bigger than rolls but paper rolls fit in these just as well. They have foam that divides and I use the foam from 2 boxes so it is thicker to support full rolls. If you get older boxes they have cardboard dividers instead of foam. For strengthening the box I glue an extra sheet of thick cardboard on the bottom and glue the folded parts so they are pretty strong. They hold up but I just use em for storage not bringing anyplace. It also organizes the rolls, one box holds the whole pds memorials in order including 1960 small dates and 7 types of 1982 and fits everything from 1959 to 2003. A few of them and you have stuff for searching

[Dick]

EAGAMES,
Looks nice. What does the box, by itself run? What do the tubes cost? I noticed your 1960-D, large date tube is short some coins. I could fill one of those boxes, several, for that matter, with wheats. My memorials have been just tossed back into the crowd, until I was pointed to this forum. I owe that to BJ...Now NOTHING gets tossed, unless it has been thoroughly scrutinized!
Dick