Coin case for 100 QUADRUM Coin Capsules, black

There is a particular moment when a handful of coins quietly becomes a collection. It usually arrives around the hundredth.

This is a coin case for up to 100 QUADRUM capsules, bound in padded black leatherette. Four stoppers hold the capsules steady when a row is only partly filled, so nothing rattles or tips, and the same case will take 50 by 50mm coin holders if you prefer them. It measures 225 by 181 by 77mm — substantial without being a piece of luggage.

It is the padded black lid that takes him back. Jonah was once shown a collection being cleared from an estate, the coins kept in a case very like this, the leatherette worn pale at the corners from decades of being opened in the same two places by the same two thumbs. The family knew nothing about the coins and cared less, but they hesitated over the case itself, as though the wear were a kind of handwriting. Jonah bought several coins that day. He has often thought he should have asked about the case.

A hundred capsules, padded and patient, ready to be the moment it becomes serious.

Some objects ask to be properly kept.