How Do You Store Your Coin Collection?

Cheers Jbuck!
I Got it all sorted in alphabetical order (the Swedish names though). I have separated the big compartments from the small compartments, so it might be a little confusing if you're trying to find a specific country, but this is how it goes (the small compartments): Upper left A-F, upper right F-K, lower left L-S lower right S-Ã-
(The big compartments is: A-E, F-I, K-S, S-Ã-)
As you might see I have sorted the Euro as a country, since I don't want to mix it with the actual currency of the country.

In total I have 218 countries, and my 219th is on the way!

I have a shelf with all of my less important whitman books on. On the same shelf are my stacks of less valuable wheat pennies, (which I plan on selling to my coin shop in bulk some day) my small collection of canadian pennies and nickels, the only bicenntenial quarters I keep (min AU-50)and all of the 2x2 holders that I currently own.

And in a location only I know of is a three ring binder filled with my best coins and a few baseball cards that were passed down to me from grandparents.

Hello,

I apologize if someone else has already mentioned this issue but the complete elimination of moisture (humidity) and excessive heat is an absolute necessity when storing coins within any enclosed area.

Just because a safe is closed does not eliminate humidity from forming inside of any enclosure.

Compounds such as corrosion and verdigris, for example, accelerate their growth (chemical reactions) in the presence of elevated heat and moisture.

This fact is readily demonstrated and verified by the simple dissolution of a dry tablet of Alka-Seltzer.

Obviously, nothing will happen to the tablet unless it is immersed in water which starts the bubbling or chemical reaction.

But then compare the times that the tablet completely dissolves in a glass of 100 degree warm water versus a glass of water containing ice cubes in it. The heated water will dissolve the tablet twice as fast on average.

The growth of verdigris and other types of chemical reactions on coins also proceed more rapidly in the presence of elevated heat and ambient air-born moisture.

Elevated heat by itself cannot on average adversely affect coins unless moisture is present in sufficient quantities to act as a median for the positive and negative ions to freely move back and forth. This is why it is a necessity to always maintain the coils of a car battery covered with water...

To solve the moisture problem within a safe, for example, simply collect the small cylindrical-shaped desiccants that come pre-packaged within pharmaceutical drugs or OTC aspirin bottles etc.

Then place open containers of these desiccants on ‘each' of the levels of the safe's shelves.

If sufficient amounts of desiccants are unavailable, just place about a ¼ lb. of dry uncooked white rice within a woman's stocking... This dry rice will extract any ambient moisture within the air and consequently protect the coins from reacting with any nearby reagents.

In this case the presence of elevated heat in the safe is inconsequential since now the moisture has been eliminated.

Always remember the analogy of the Alka-Seltzer tablet in a warm oven without any water present to begin the dissolving or bubbling chemical reaction; the tablet will just sit there without shrinking or reacting.

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mdpmedia

Drsandman,

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fyi,
mdpmedia

I use adhesives for all my silver now, and anything above $2 in price. Storing circulated coins and anything worth less than $2 in an adhesive is an exercise in futility, and anal retentiveness, in my opinion.