Your Storage Method?!

From my years as a chemistry teacher, reagent grade should work fine. You don't want "technical" grade. There is a purer grade beyond reagent. I think, and I may be remembering wrong, it is USP grade

The cost is pretty much geometrical going up the grade ladder. The purer you require, the more it costs.

Sorry, forgot about this. I found no residue with my tests.

Hi everyone! I am new to the forum, but it looks great. Hope you dont mind my input on the subject. I have been trying to find or make my own "ultimate" album for years now. First I used the dansco albums, but found coins began to tone quite fast. Then I put new coins in "kointains" the into custom size pages to fit the size of the coin in the kointain (about 2mm larger than normal). That was better, but not by much. I then tried storing them in the kointains, in "Gardmaster" pages. This seems to work very well. Only problem is I was getting spots on the sides of alot of the coins, I think from the kointains. I talked with them, they said not possible from their product. I then decided to put them in direct-fit "Air-Tites" this seems to be perfect, but they no longer fit the Gardmaster pages very well, due to the thickness of the capsule. I have been tring out a few different 2x2 holders, like BT has done and thinking of storing that way as well. Bye the way I have been rinsing all my coins with acetone for over 15 years and all look as new as the day they were minted. I will try to post pics of my "methods" of storing during the week to see what you think.
Jim

crusherjc!

Interesting path you taken to get to Airtites. A quick acetone rinse, then into an Airtite will serve you well for many years! I was sad to see a price increase at Valley coin for Airtites last night when I went to order more. They have gone from 0.39 to 0.47 each in bulk.



Nonetheless, I think they are the best and most economical way to store your coins.

Really Thad? What the..! I'll have to go smack them! Maybe after I was in and bought 500+ airtites they thought there would be huge demand or something for them.

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If you look or check out search on this forum you would probably find millions of posts on this subject. Slight exageration of course. The main problem is shelf life and packaging. If you saw the canning process you would understand the possible errors that could happen to such products during the coating process. Any small omission on the inside could allow the Acetone to slowly absorb the metallic contents of the can itself. This is why most pure Acetones are from glass containers. An experiment done many hundreds of years ago by a chemist to make pure water and then he contained it in a glass bottle. Today this is still in a Museum and the water is all cloudy. The water absorbed some of the glass.
Meanwhile back to the original quesstion. Don't mean to be pessimistic but I think a little to much is being done to preserve coins. I've been collecting coins for well over 60 years. Have well over 100 Whitman Classic Albums. Each one is in a plastic Zip Lock bag with as much air pushed out as possible. Many, many of my coins have been with me from the beginning since I never sell any coins. NONE have shown any toning, corroding, tarnishing, etc. Naturally I also have thousands of coins in 2x2's, plastic rolls, jars, etc. Those also show no signs of any problems.
Am I just lucky. I doubt it. No air or moisture gets to my coins as they are so no massively over kill is required as far as I can tell.
HOWEVER, it probably doesn't hurt to be over protective.

Very cool
Thanks
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you dog! I read that with enthusiasm to the end no less..

ST~