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Casino Cases For Silver Coin Storage

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 Posted 06/01/2013  4:09 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add cderksen to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
A clay casino chip is 39 mm, a plastic chip is 40 mm. I was thinking about storing my silver maple's in a higher end poker chip case, most likely a 500 chip mahogany case, or even the cheap aluminum carrying case. ( sorry, still don't know how to upload pictures off my tablet )
Was wondering if anyone else already store their coins this way. I would love to see some pictures if you do, or your opinion if you think it would work or harm my coins?
Only have 35 loose coins, I don't think the ones in air-tites will fit.
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The traditional British coin chests used by British ancient coin collectors are usually high-end custom-made chests of drawers that are made of mahogany or other
select seasoned hardwoods. I know those chests are made of carefully long-aged woods so the chests won't still be giving off gasses that might damage the coins.

If you could catch the attention of some of the British CCFer's, they might be able to advise you about what to look for in the woods that coin storage enclosures
would best be made of.

I opt for a simpler, more typical Ameriican approach. I use RCM tubes and monster boxes that I got (empty) from APMEX and surplus US military ammo boxes. They're
inexpensive and provide atmospheric protection that's as effective as could be hoped for. Not much to look at and decidedly proletarian but economic and effective.
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What about using the old style 35MM slide boxes if you use 2x2 flips or the cardboard holders. You can pick them up at garage sales and thrift stores they are mostly made of metal and have slots for the slides to stand upright in. Will have to dig out one of mine that still has slides in it. And get a pic of them tomorrow.
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I was actually using 35mm timber slide boxes years ago, but modern coin albums designed specifically for coins are more convenient.

Those old 35mm slide boxes have long since been reverted back to their original use.
Those slides depict trip that a group of friends and myself made, of an overland trip in a double deck bus (owned by us), India to Europe. Lots of interesting pictures in the Punjab, Afganistan, Iran and Iraq.
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