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New Member
Australia
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Hi All,
Ive got alot of copper coins stored in many different containers.
What is the preferred or safest way to store them? - Plastic Buckets, metal tins etc?
Ive recently bought alot of those partitioned plastic boxes from bunnings, are these ok?
If a penny has vertigris on it, can/does it spread to a coin that is touching it / stored against it?
All input will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks Dave
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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 Dave Plastic is far better than tin/steel Verdigris will affect other coins |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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DaveKing !. A very very important question  . A lot of the coins I acquired at a younger age have deteriorated because I did not store these properly. As with my stamp collection, I keep the "contaminated" (verdigris = coins, foxing, rust = stamps etc.) well away from my clean specimens. In a separate container altogether. I keep my coins in Rennicks albums. Special cardboard holders with cellophane facing for my rarer coins (wavy, incused etc.). I have lived in the tropics for a few years in the past. I was able to protect my coins and stamps (particularly my stamps) by lining the inside of my collection chest, containing the albums, with a plush clean cotton beach towel that I have washed and dried quite a number of times previously. This really does a great job against extreme humidity. No deterioration in my samples over a number of 'wet-seasons' Squire |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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DaveKing: to the CCF! If it is bulk bronze coins, store them in polyethylene lunch kid's lunch boxes. Toss in a small bag of silica gel. The more important ones can be put in tubes or 2 x 2's in the lunch boxes, according to your preference. I use the Uncle Toby's PET screw top 2 litre jars for my bulk decimal coins, like a 'toss in' bikkie barrel. I collect commemorative 20c, 50c, and dollar coins from circulation in this way. But  with Squire, quarantine the sus. coins away from the good ones. Verdigris is bronze disease, and it is contagious. Put the sus. coins, and the lower grade and more common ones in the Bunnings boxes you already have. Dave R. Edited by sel_69l
06/01/2012 01:17 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Just make sure that the plastic isn't PVC!
If they are bulk and not worth much then as others have said seperate the sick ones so they dont infect the others and store the healthy ones somewhere dry, free from rapid temperature fluctuations that might cause condensation.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The other replies have covered it; - Must be dry
- Not in contact with other metals
- Non reactive plastic (food grade is a good bet) containers are most suitable.
I recently obtained several kg of 1¢ and 2¢ from a shed find. They had been stored in a biscuit tin (tin plated steel), under a leaky roof with assorted nuts and bolts thrown in on top!  Some very nice ones but mostly badly stained with rust deposits. Rust is only on the surface but seems almost impossible to remove. Any practical suggestions appreciated.Most will be going back to the bank at face value  but, if they had been stored in, say, 2 litre ice-cream containers, they would now be mostly worth much more than face value. Jeff |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Jeff - dont take them back to the bank! Find your closest scrap metal dealer. Face value approx $3.75 per kg / Copper value paid by scrap yard approx $6.00. I usually wait until I have about 10kg which is about once a month and then take it down. Any profit is good profit |
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Valued Member
Australia
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cheers for the advice enworb, I have about $75 worth of face value 1c and 2c pieces I was thinking of taking back to the bank ;)
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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You should be able to get $110-120 for that much
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Plastic is good -as long as it's not pvc. PET containers are good, any container of hard HDPE plastic, PE or PP. Food grade ziplock bags are good too, made from PE. I agree throw in a silica gel baggie and you're set.
Qarantine anything with the green verdigis as it will spread to the other coins.
Edited by the-purple-penny
06/01/2012 06:22 am
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Valued Member
Australia
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Don't use a metal tin to store the coins and seperate any green looking coins from the overall lot.
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