Custom Coin Board!

Hello coin lovers!

Picked up a pretty cool tool recently and thought I’d share :)

It’s a custom coin board built by a friend of mine to make sorting easier! How cool is that?! He’s a huge *foreign coins* guy and routinely sorts though pounds worth of bags at a time, but was having trouble finding the perfect set up while watching TV.

So what does a carpenter do when faced with such a dilemma? Head to his workshop of course and builds one for himself!

And what a beauty it turned out to be! A perfectly sized tray of 5 rows and 10 slots, making it a dream to sort while sitting on the couch enjoying your hobby…

And I know this as I’ve been doing just that myself while giving it a test spin :)

[Sorting pennies from a recent collection I was evaluating]

[So easy to sort them by decade – or even year!]

[Sorting modern change]

[Closeup of change – tall enough to fit a lot!]

[Another closeup…]

[Sorting Morgans by year!]

[So pretty – and easy]

My friend showed off one of these boards during a presentation at our coin club, and when I asked afterwards how I could get my own hands on one of these, he shot back with that familiar response: “what do you have for trade?” ;)

And, well, one thing led to another and he’s now the proud owner of a few early 20th century type coins, and I’m the proud owner of this coin board featured here in this post! Score!

And there really are so many ways you can use this!

• For sorting coins by YEAR
• For sorting coins by DECADE
• For sorting coins by TYPE
• For sorting coins by COUNTRY (this is the main way my friend uses it – he separates out the countries first, then goes back and separates them out by *year* and *denomination*)
• For sorting coins just in GENERAL! (The last time I grabbed this I had only a small pile of maybe 30-40 coins to go through, so I just plopped this puppy on my lap and easily sorted the entire thing with plenty of extra slots left over… It’s so convenient!)

And BONUS: It makes for a much easier way to store and *transport*coins too!

Because as much as we wish we had hours upon hours to dedicate to our coin babies, unfortunately life doesn’t always grant us this so whether you have 15 mins or a full hour to play, you know you can at least get started and then come back to it later with no needing of clearing tables or whipping out plastic baggies or jars/etc etc. You just take the tray back out from a safe location, and voila! Time to get the coin party started again!

It really does make sorting a lot more fun (and comfortable), so huge thanks again to my friend for a) letting me have one of these creations! and b) for giving me a tool that I’ll be able to use for many years/decades? to come.

Happy collecting!

PS: If anyone else is interested in having a board, let me know and I’ll see if he’s up for making some new ones. Just be prepared to have something to trade! ;)