Safe Ways To Store Silver Coins

Speaking of humidity. I currently have to take prescription pills indefinitely, and the plastic pill bottles always come with one of those silicon bags to keep moisture out, I suppose for storage I could just use those inside the box to help keep the moisture down, changing them reguarly for new ones from the prescription bottles.

Although your question is about storing coins. I want to share my experience
or my stupid mistake I should say, when I once folded some divisible silver 1oz bars
purchased from NWT. They came in a sealed sheet of plastic and for storage purposes,
I folded the sheet and to keep it together I wrapped the sheet with an ordinary
rubber band....
The chemical reaction (if I can call it like that), went right through the plastic and
darken my silver with a black line.
I felt like such a dud I obviously never repeated that blunder.
...just my 2 cents worth of input...

Wow, silver really can be very sensitive to certain things, this is all great tips thanks.

Are all other plastics ok, or are there more types in addition to pvc that are bad?
I have some polythene bags which I'm not using for coins but other things, which do give off a bit of a smell, makes me wonder if they would be bad for silver too?

Here's my damaged silver that I mentioned before from a rubber band...

There are dehumidifiers that are relatively cheap that you can purchase that are very similar to what you would find in prescription or vitamin bottles. Here is a web site; I purchased some but I got them at a big box store. http://www.pringi.com I find these to be extremely useful.

While we are on this subject....

I bought some of those plastic tubes to store my American Silver Eagles in. I came up with an idea of using purge paper to make "spacers" to put between coins to keep them from getting scuffed and scratched. I got to thinking about silver and paper, wondering if it would be OK. Here is a description of purge paper....

Aquasol Water Soluble Paper is made of Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose and wooden pulp that dissolves rapidly and completely in most liquids including water. After welding is complete, Aquasol purge dams can be effortlessly dissolved and flushed out of the system with water when hydro testing; leaving no residue in the pipeline.

Good or Bad Idea? No chance of the coins getting wet.

Here is how I store my bullion. All 90% I store in the clear plastic tubes. All 1oz rounds and morgan/peace dollars I store in the sure-safe tube in the pic wich keeps them from rubbing together. All 1oz bars I store in the square sure-safe box in the pic wich keeps them from rubbing together. And all ASE's and maple leafs stay in the tubes they come in from the mint. They all seem to work pretty good so far.

Those Sure-Safe Shippers are high-end storage containers and they do keep bars/coins from contacting each other, but they do also eat up a lot of space.
Because they keep bars/coins from contacting each other, they also keep both sides of each piece exposed to atmosphere and thereby accelerate the eventuality
of toning. So, there's the basic quandary---separation with probably accelerated toning or items in contact and thereby increasing the possibility of surface damage.
I personally go with the US and RCM mint tubes and CoinSafe brand square tubes. I think they're good enough.

Relative to humidity control... You can get "rechargeable" desiccant oaks that'll remedy that problem. See -- http://www.midwayusa.com/find?userS...ry=dessicant