I've done a couple coins already, but right now I'm really still trying to think exactly how I will want to organize everything.īest birthday gift ever? I'd say so! □ I feel very blessed to have such a thoughtful wife. I'm thinking of assigning a personal collection catalog number to each coin and having a binder with pages containing each coin's information - which will be a lot more than I could put even on a 2x2 flip insert. Now the task will be to catalog my entire collection and put little label slips in with each coin. All the trays are made from one-piece walnut boards: Here is a tray of Roman coins that has been removed from the case. The trays are riding on 1/4"x1/4" strips I ripped from some of the leftover walnut boards. Photos: (Please excuse the messy kitchen table.) I couldn't be happier how it all turned out (felt color aside) and will have a lot of fun filling it up with new coins! Today I finally finished it! It was a fun woodworking project and I really enjoyed making it all from scratch. I couldn't find 2.125" felt circles so just ordered 2" instead those are more the vibrant red I was looking for. I may be getting a replacement set but, in the meantime, I couldn't wait the couple weeks it took to ship and just used the ones I had. I wanted red and what I got was more purplish-maroon. The felt circles shipped from overseas and I was disappointed that the color chart on the website did not exactly match the color in reality. I ended up making 10 trays with 40 holes 1.625" in diameter and 2 trays with holes 2.125" in diameter for larger coins, medals, etc. In the meantime I had ordered a copious quantity of die-cut felt circles of the correct size. The next few weeks were spent cutting the boards to size, planing, sanding, drilling nearly 500 holes, gluing, nailing, putty, router edges, sanding again, assembling the trays, last sanding, finishing, installing the tray knobs, and then letting the box and trays air dry with a fan for about a week or so. Mahogany is of course the gold standard, but it is also very expensive plus I kind of wanted a darker wood to contrast with the felt/coins. Off to the local lumber store! I had fun looking at all the $$$ exotic furniture-grade hardwoods for sale. I also wanted to take the time making sure every detail was thought out so I wouldn't run into any unforeseen mistakes halfway through. I figured 10 or 12 trays, maybe 40 coins per tray would give me lots of growing room. Planning the project took a little while since I wanted enough room to store all my coins and still have plenty left over for future use. 2002, Roman Coins and their Values, Spink, London, Volume 2, p.306.My birthday was just last month, and for a gift my wonderful wife told me she wanted to get me a nice coin cabinet! I had been looking at ones for sale online, but could never bring myself to pull the trigger due to price - the sizes I was interested in seemed to start at around $550 - so we decided to buy materials and I could make one myself, instead. The last of the ‘five good emperors’ who presided over the most noble days of the Roman Empire, the empire quickly decended into civil war after his death. He was also known as a leading stoic philosopher, a philosophy that emphasised fate, reason and self-restraint. and was the last emperor of the Pax Romana, a time of relative peace and stability within the empire that lasted from 27 B.C. Notes: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ruled as Roman emperor from 161 to 180 A.D. Provenance: Ex Gloucestershire private collection. 138-193 - A silver denarius of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.), laureate bust of the emperor as Augustus facing right with the legend M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIIII, the reverse showing Liberty standing facing left holding abacus and cornucopiae, with the legend LIBERAL AVG V COS III, wear to the highlights and irregular flan, but overall a nice coin, Sear 4914. Description: Roman Imperial coinage: The Antonines A.D.
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