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Pillar of the Community
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I have 20 silver coins in 2x2's. I would like to store those in a 20-slot page in my grandfather's safe, which also contains guns, ammo and documents. I have Cowens or BCW pages that I'd like to store them in. Which page do I use and do I need to do anything else with them before placing them in the safe? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Some fire-proof safes have chemicals in the fire retardant that might affect the coins in an adverse way...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have 3 safes for coin, if they were mine out of the 2x2's and into air-tite holdes.
I have had Silver do;;ars and halfs in airtites for 5 or 6 years, no coin has toned
or discolored any at all.
I do keep the small silver metal boxes full of drying agent in each safe.
But never kept coin in the Gun safe, might be the oil and fumes from what is used to clean
and maintain the firearms might cause silver coins to discolor, I really dont know.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A simple solution would be to throw out all your Grandfather's stuff and just put your coins in there.  Of course that could get your coins dumped into a bank.  There is really nothing wrong with storing coins in a safe regardless of other items in that safe. This however, depends on how you store your coins. If in 2x2's, edges sealed with tape, placed in those 20 pocket plastic pages, placed in a Zip Lock Plastic Bag, should last forever. Some place moisture absorbing items in their safes and forget that eventually those are full. Then those start to emit moisture and may do more damage than good. The gun cleaning oils are basically safe but the gun cleaning solutions are very toxic and/or corrosive. Which is why after using them on a barrel, it is always advised to now use the oils. Still remember that in case of a fire, the gun powder will possibly ignite, all plastics will melt, and possoble other chemicals will run all over. |
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Pillar of the Community
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There was another post that coins were stored in a gun safe & the coins discolored. IMO I would not store them in there.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for locating that jbuck.  That the post I was referring to. |
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Glad I could help.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Back to my biggest sticking point, The Cowens pages say that they are Vinyl, the BCW pages I have are Polypropylene. I'm thinking now I ought to use the Polypropylene pages.
Bottom line, Will I be OK with my not-tape-sealed paper 2x2's, put in the Polypropylene pages, put in the ziplock bags?
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New Member
United States
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I would keep silver as far away from guns as possible. A primary chemical involved in silver tarnish is Hydrogen sulfide, which also happens to be a major component of the smoke/exhaust of many types and brands of gunpowders. I would keep the two (silver and gun paraphernalia) as far apart as possible.
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I would keep the two (silver and gun paraphernalia) as far apart as possible. Why buy one gun safe when you can buy two for twice the price? |
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