New LMC Storage Question

If you notice most collectors of anything usually prefer that item to be as close to new as possible. Sort of like Star Wars figures that are still in the original package. Or if you watch teh Antique Road Show you would many times hear how an item is worth more due to it's original condition. Same with coins. If you keep them looking new for 30 years, you would possibly get much more for them compared to ones that appear to be left out in the weather.
The real problem is knowing what to keep. For example some really old cars are just old cars. Yet others of the same age are worth a fortune. With coins it would be only a guess as to want to keep for 30+ years.
As an example I USED to save all the Bicentennial Quarters I could find. So did a friend of mine. Way after over 30 years they all are worth about $0.25 in mint coindition. You just never know.

I keep them in a coupld of ways:

1: in the wrappings that I get from Brinks

and

2: In old pill bottles that are labeled as to what is inside.

Who knows what is going to be more valuable in 15 or 20 years. I won't know if they are going to be worth something but my kids will.

With my luck the kids will probably be wondering what the old fool was thinking about back then in 2012, 2011, or 2010 or whenever. But then again they could be saying that the old coot was wily and knew something after all.

Who knows. Its really a flip of the coin.

On the brighter side though, if you should attempt to preserve those newer types, find a place where you could make a time capsule. Very possibly in a few thousand years they would be found and since by then coinage will have been abandoned, yours will then be worth a lot of whatever is then used.