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Valued Member
United States
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Right now I have a small lockbox that has my rolls and a few jewelery boxes to hold all my random coins. Any ideas on a better more organized way? I finished my first roll of ASEs and am starting another soon, so I was thinking of picking up an empty monster box, but what about my other loose capsuled coins? Like my Maples, Britannias, Morgans, etc that I dont plan on filling into rolls. So any cool ideas to keep everything neat would be appreciated.
Would love to see the inside of a monster box to see if I can figure out how I can make my other coins work in it.
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Pillar of the Community
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I have a lighthouse binder that I got on discount somewhere. It was designed to hold slabs but also does well with two in capsule coins. I use one for all my graded slab bullion coins and my yearly world coins. I usually buy at least one of all the worldly issues and had the same problem you are, nowhere to put the capsules. Here is a link http://www.lighthouse.us/epages/lig...1702/US_2002
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 United States
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Those are pretty cool tbk. I wish they made some sort of box that just has vertical tube like holes that fit capsules. Maybe ill make one? I'm pretty crafty at times. Lol
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks bryan. Looks nice. In going to have to see if theres tubes that fit airtites. So I could fit everything in there nice and neat
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Valued Member
 United States
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May have found my solution. Found some tubes for air tite capsules. And since the rest of my collection is already tubed, Ill be getting an empty monster box..... wish it was full though :)
Edited by colu41 10/20/2012 7:36 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Relative to boxes - monster boxes are mentioned, but nobody mentions military surplus ammo cans. Ammo cans provide superior storage protection - the lids are rubber gasketed and the cans are pretty airtight, pretty watertight & pretty moisture-proof. A dessicant pack keeps them real dry inside. The construction is durable welded steel so they can absorb punishment while keeping contents safe from damage (though that can be a function of what kind of padding is used). They're reasonably priced and widely available online, in army-navy stores and at gun shows.
Does anybody use ammo cans or is small-scale PM storage strictly a monster box thing?
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United States
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I've been looking for a .50 caliber ammo box, with handles and with the gasketed rubber linings, but I can't seem to find any in all army surplus stores, which I assumed would carry them. I've found a lot without the rubber lining, so it isn't airtight/waterproof, and if they do come with it, no handles. I'm almost tempted to buy an ammo box with the ammo in it, just to get the box. Btw, air-tite sells tubes that should hold your air-tite coin holders. There are different sizes so make sure you get the right kind. For example, the air-tites for the Maples are thicker and bigger then the air-tites for ASE's. It's kind of annoying since I'm working on my 1 oz. silver bullion collection, and having everything in different sized air-tites doesn't make stacking them any easier. Been tempted to get the tubes myself, but waiting till I have enough air-tites to justify the order. I'm also waiting till the day someone released the perfect album/pages for air-tites. And speaking of air-tites. I read on the sizing chart, that I would need the silver Maple sized air-tites to hold the Austalian Lunar Series coin(s). Speaking only about 1 ouncers. I have my lunars in air-tites that fit ASEs and they fit very snuggly around the black inner lining and the case closes completely. Should I move them to the proper sized air-tite, or just leave them and stop worrying nothing? I've been debating this with myself for a few weeks now.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have a few .30 cal ammo boxes that I use for... oddly enough... ammo, but I bet that they would work well enough for coins too. In fact, my son has one of them in his safe with some of my 5-oz. bars and several tubes of ASEs and Maples. They seem fine for coins in tubes or bars in plastic but might not be for loose or slabbed items.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't have silver in the ammo cans but some nickels! They do fit rolled coins well
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Canada
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I found pelican case quite good  for storing coins
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thats pretty fancy silverbug. You should handcuff it to your wrist and walk around in a suit with it like youre carrying the nuclear football 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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SBug - There's a certain poetic propriety (LOVE that alliteration!) in your storing Pandas in a Chinese-made hard plastic resin photo gear case while I store ASEs in an American military surplus ammo can. I'm also an AR-15 devotee & I hope you too maintain consistency by being an AK-47 type.
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Canada
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Fat Freddy: are you sure? I thought pelican cases were proudly made in USA? or maybe not anymore?
basebal21: you don't want to walk around with pelican case, the empty case is heavy enough.
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