🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

Catalogue

The running list. One row per coin; the story column is the whole point, so a coin isn't finished until it has one. Catalogue and story-capture happen together, tray by tray, with the person who remembers in the room.

Story page — the format (one per notable coin)

Coin 001 — (country, denomination, year) What it is: the ruler / era / event it belongs to. How it came to us: the journey — change from a trip, a gift, an inheritance. Why it stayed: what made this one worth keeping. Worth a look because: the fact that makes someone want to hold it.

Handling & storage (do once, for the whole collection)

• Cotton gloves — skin oils corrode metal
• Capsules or acid-free flips; never loose in a jar where they scratch each other
• Never clean a coin — cleaning strips the patina and the value with it
• Both faces photographed — the backup, and the way to share without handling