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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I have recently aquired something with a good amount of silver in it, and was wondering how to store it. I have a suitably inconspicuous place to put it, but honestly, robbery isn't an issue where I live, but I want to store it all well so it all doesn't go green or something crazy. (I do, however, wish to be able to handle my 'collection' so no sealing in carbonite or anything crazy)
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Valued Member
United States
424 Posts |
perhaps a safe would suit your needs...and maybe a desiccant pack or two.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I have no issue with storing most of my coins...many circulated are in albums and the larger bullion coins are either in mint boxes or capsules.
Now that I have started having a few silver hammered and early coins I am not really sure what to do with these. I put my silver Elizabeth the first coin in a capsule but it is so thin that it rattles around and there is plenty of air in there which could tarnish it...if I put it in a plastic envelope it is an odd size though and not very tactile... so I guess that can go in an album instead... Ancients though are not very round and quite thick...
So modern coins go with albums or capsules... ancients and hammered coins I would like advice too!
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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BenByfield:
You do not say what shape it is. If it round, a screw capsule could do the trick.
A snap lock polyethylene bag would be OK for an ingot shaped piece, then stored in a hard plastic box.
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DavidUK:
I store all of my ancients and hammereds in Mylar 2x2's, with all of the attribition and purchase details written on the 2x2's. Often, you have to write very tiny and neatly!
The 2x2's are stored in non PVC archival quality album pages, in a 4 - ring binder, and they can be hard to obtain. I use old trade sample catalogue binders for that. The exterior graphics of these do not suggest in any way that their use has changed to be used as coin albums. That does not matter; it's the coins inside that do.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thanks Sel... I will have to try and buy a handful of 2x2's as it makes sense... as for the pages I would only need 2-3 I don't pick coins up very fast these days.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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DavidUK: Don't worry about that, it has taken me ony 35 years to build my current collection!
If you only a few coins, a smaller 8"x6" 3 ring binder would be OK.
Just cut down the album pages to hold 2x3 (6) 2x2's, or 3x4 (12) 2x2's to fit the smaller 3 ring binder album.
New holes may have to be punched in the album pages to fit the smaller 3 ring binder album. The smaller album requires less storage space. I have a couple of smaller albums like this, stored in strong cardboard Post Office mailer boxes.
An old wooden cigar box or large cigarette tin would be OK, too.
An old pressed steel cigarette tin is a collectible in it's own right. Have a look around cheap antique fairs or car part swap meets. Lotsa fun!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I found that they do pages to hold 2x2 which fit the numis lighthouse albums (the 4 ring slightly smaller albums, 1 page holds 12 2x2's)
So I will order 5 pages like those since I have another binder on its way (I have 2 already but they are over filled)
Next I will need an assortment of 2x2's... I see them being sold in packs of 100, I really want 100 but with a variety of sizes so I sent a message to a seller to see if that is possible.
If I get those I am sure I will be all taken care of for the next ten years :)
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote: Many methods can be used for long term storage. One is: Just find a suitable container, purchase some liquid plastic, do as I did. Or use 2x2's for coins, place in those plastic 20 slot pagese, put in a 3 ringed binder. OR send all coins to me and forget about all those storage problems.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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DavidUK: Make sure thst you get archival qulaity album pages.
The softer, clearer PVC album pages are OK, but STRICTLY for a few months only.
The plasticer, which makes these sort of pages soft and pliable, gasses our over a period of time, and has the potential to turn your coins black.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thanks sel... I already had this issue with one album which covered my coins with slime over a ten year period, I had to acetone all the coins which got rid of the green but resulted in a loss of luster. So that album was thrown out in favour of the Numis Lighthouse albums which claim to be OK. I just bought these 2x2's http://www.ebay.com/itm/36040304448....m1497.l2649They say free from chemical softeners but then I thought what about the glue? I hope they will be OK. Edited by DavidUK
09/02/2012 08:17 am
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The Mylar film used in 2x2's is quite neutral to coins, and is perfect for this application.
The problem with Mylar is, I suspect, that it is osmotic to the gasses which are emitted from the clear soft pliable PVC album pages.
Better quality album pages are needed in the long run, which need to be at least neutral to the coins contained in them.
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
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Im going to whack it all into envelopes unless I get a larger collection, in qhich case ill find some holders. I have a Morgan dollar about to arrive, I dont know what kind of condition, should I make provisions for that? This is going into a proper hiding place (dry, dark and innacessible without equipment1!). Edited by Ben
09/02/2012 5:49 pm
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