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If I am keeping my coins in a display case, do I need to buy a plastic covering for each? Air tight? Do I need silica? Is there something better as they stuff is cancer ridden. Any suggestions for storage and care?
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I think you'll get a large variety of good responses from people here on how they store their coins. I keep most of mine in boxes made to store 2x2 cardboard flips, but I keep them in pvc free flips. I do put silica pacs in the boxes.
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A display case is a good idea if you're a dealer but not so much as a collector.

Me? I use standard 2x2 carboard flips for all World, Canada & US coins and plastic Saflips for Ancients and Medieval (Mainly hammered) Coins. I keep my slabbed coins in slab folders. Everything fits comfortably in two standard 3-Ring binders. My less valuable coins are just stored in boxes and I have a drawer for junk silver with dividers to sort by purity.
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I put my coins in 2x2 saflips with an insert that has the ID, then I put the flips in 2x2 20 pocket album binder pages and then put the pages into three ring binders. I have several albums for different categories like one for the Tetrarchy, one for Constantine, one for Valentinian and family, one for Theodosius and family etc.

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Does anyone have any links for glass display cases? I envision a 36X36 inch glass display with a white velvet background where I leave my coins in circular plastic covering with a card stock label underneath.
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I have a set up that I'll post pictures of tomorrow. It's a shadow box with each coin in the bottom half of a 2x2 flip, and the information on a slip of paper in the top half. I use pins to hold them up. It puts a hole in the info flip but I can live with it. I hang them on my wall.

If I had anything super expensive I probably wouldn't store it that way though.


Edit: That's only for my favorite coins though. The rest are in the same flips but in little slotted boxes.
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Not your usual way

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