Album for coins with your own hands - the pride of the coin collector and the beauty of the collection

They say that the first numismatist - a collector of coins - appeared immediately, as soon as the first coin was coined in the world. In this case, it was not just a numismatist, but the Roman deity Janus, who sailed to the Apennine peninsula from the island of Crete and knocked out a coin in honor of the god Saturn. It is not known, however, whether he collected further after this coin, and also where he kept them. At the service of the current numismatists is a special coin holder for coins, an album, through which the transparent pages of which can be regarded as the obverse of coins, and their reverse.

Often, not all such albums sold for sale, satisfy the tastes of discerning numismatists, for this reason, preferring to make an album for coins themselves. One does not like the cover, especially if it has a picture or logo that does not have anything to do with the numismatics. Others call the color of the background for coins (they are convinced that the coin has the right to flash only on a black background or on scarlet satin velvet a la Sberbank, and not too far from the truth.) The third is not satisfied with the lack of the ability to add to the cutter all the new sheets With the expansion of the collection ... In general, there are many complaints, and there is certainly a solution to the problem.

You can make a very good album for coins with your own hands, and with a ready-made presentable cover and stitched transparent sheets, much more dense than regular files - from a business card. To "solder" the sheets to the size of the coins, there is enough soldering iron, iron ruler and a piece of thick paper or cardboard, pre-lined for future cells. It is advisable to practice with a soldering iron beforehand, since the card holder has already been sewn tightly, and it is better to leave all "pancakes with a lump" on "drafts". Slots for coins are neatly made with a sharpened knife or scalpel on the cardboard.

But still realize the dream of a coin collector about the constant expansion of the collection (which is one of its hidden meanings) will help the album for coins with its own hands, designed for fastening with a binder. Convenience is also in the fact that you can independently set the size of the coin cell, and in fact they come in different sizes. For example, if at 5 kopecks in 1961 the coinage diameter is 25 mm, then for a copper coin of 1924 - 32 mm. Not to mention coins of different merits.

First you need to find simple files from the thickest plastic (for stiffening rigidity) - these are future sheets for coins. The files are in A4 format, so it will not be difficult to draw squares of the required size on the same sheet of thick paper for future cells. This sheet falls on the file, and one more - under the file; The resulting "sandwich" is better to fix with paper clips. By this time, the soldering iron included in the network should already be warmed up properly. Its sting needs to be carried out exactly along the drawn lines (2-3 times desirable), to guarantee insurance with an iron or wooden ruler. Before the actual work it is desirable to be trained; You will be surprised how quickly you will learn to do everything perfectly from the very first time. In the end, it only remains to cut the lines in the cells for the coins, after placing the precious collection, glue each cut with transparent tape and sew the sheet into the folder.

Alternatively, you can make all the cells in the files the same in size, but add the album for the coins yourself with cardboard inserts with round windows for the diameter of the coins. Inside, the cardboard sachet is glued in such a way that the coin can enter freely there and at the same time precisely "look" into the window. And the tongue from the top makes it easy to pull it out of the sheet if necessary.

Folders-folders release different capacities, a maximum - on 100 files. If each sheet is calculated for 16 coins, 1600 copies are more than a decent collection. Successful replenishment, numismatists!