Project description
I have been collecting coins for about fifteen years and the collection has finally outgrown the shoebox stage. There are 482 pieces at the moment, diameters run from 15 to 41 mm, and roughly thirty of them are thicker medal-style pieces up to 5 mm. Right now everything sits in paper envelopes inside a drawer: nothing is visible, every viewing turns into unpacking, and I keep worrying about rubbing edges each time I sort through the pile. I would like one album built to measure for this exact collection, with room for another sixty pieces over the next few years.
The part that matters most to me is what actually touches the metal. I need pages with punched cells in several sizes, so that every coin sits in its own seat and cannot slide sideways; I will send you a measured table showing how many pieces fall into each diameter group. No soft plastics with plasticizers anywhere in the build, and no PVC pockets at all — I have seen what the green haze does to silver and copper after a couple of years. Interleaves should be inert and uncoated, and any adhesive has to stay well away from the cells themselves.
On format I am open to either a ring binder that lets me add pages later or a sewn book block, but the album must open completely flat: otherwise coins tip out of the upper row. Under every cell I want a narrow label strip — year, denomination, a short note — either printed from my list or left blank for handwriting, whichever holds up better in your experience. The cover should be a dark cloth or leather-look board with blind embossing, no colour printing. On top of that I need a slipcase or a closed box that keeps dust and daylight off the block while the album stands on a shelf.
Please tell me in your reply:
— which cell layouts you can punch and the smallest step between sizes;
— what you use for pages and interleaves, and how you confirm the stock is safe for metal;
— rings versus a sewn binding for a block of this weight, and the expected finished weight;
— how many working days from an approved layout to delivery, and what you need from me to start.
The part that matters most to me is what actually touches the metal. I need pages with punched cells in several sizes, so that every coin sits in its own seat and cannot slide sideways; I will send you a measured table showing how many pieces fall into each diameter group. No soft plastics with plasticizers anywhere in the build, and no PVC pockets at all — I have seen what the green haze does to silver and copper after a couple of years. Interleaves should be inert and uncoated, and any adhesive has to stay well away from the cells themselves.
On format I am open to either a ring binder that lets me add pages later or a sewn book block, but the album must open completely flat: otherwise coins tip out of the upper row. Under every cell I want a narrow label strip — year, denomination, a short note — either printed from my list or left blank for handwriting, whichever holds up better in your experience. The cover should be a dark cloth or leather-look board with blind embossing, no colour printing. On top of that I need a slipcase or a closed box that keeps dust and daylight off the block while the album stands on a shelf.
Please tell me in your reply:
— which cell layouts you can punch and the smallest step between sizes;
— what you use for pages and interleaves, and how you confirm the stock is safe for metal;
— rings versus a sewn binding for a block of this weight, and the expected finished weight;
— how many working days from an approved layout to delivery, and what you need from me to start.
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