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Valued Member
Canada
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Here's something I don't know if anyone else has come across. I tend to roll my same year coins and put the rolls in bundles and wrap them with large elastics. I stick a piece of paper in the elastic identifying the year before placing them on a shelf where they're up out of the way. Then if someone discovers something new about a certain year they're easily accessible. Now the problem! I had my wife swing by Staples to get some thick elastics. She brought me two boxes of BASICS brand and they seemed suitable. They are NOT! They have a very short shelf life. Every day I go into the room I store my coins in and I find broken elastics. They just let go no matter how much or how little tension placed on them. This morning I heard a small crash and went in to find the elastic had let go on a group of 10 and two rolls had fallen off the shelf and there were coins all over the floor. It was not a pretty sight. I am now in search of an elastic brand or size (the ones I'm using are 1/4 inch wide) that will last. Does anyone out there have a suggestion as to what I should be wrapping these coins in? I was thinking of going into the Metro store and stealing all of the broccoli bands!(lol)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2781 Posts |
zip lock bags.
shrink wrap.
a small box.
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Pillar of the Community
1844 Posts |
forget the elastics..After you wrap them, just wrap them again in plastic wrap or sandwhich bags.. Then if they ever do come apart they are still sealed
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Rubber bands and coins do not mix. I've seen plenty of end coins in rolls and 2x2's that have been stained by contact, or close proximity to, a rubber band. I'm no chemist, but it probably has something to do with plasticizers out gassing and attacking the metal. I've seen it more on silver than on copper or nickel.
Best storage I've used over the years is high quality plastic coin tubes... I like the square ones that don't rollaway.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Store them in the coin boxes, you can ask at the bank for them
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I always purchase coin tubes and use them (I prefer the square tubes).. Then just place them in a box. It maybe a little expensive but worth it. Now I'm also only working with mint/OBW rolls and not circulated coins.
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Valued Member
 Canada
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Yeah, these are coins that are uncirculated or nearly uncirculated in rolls and then the rolls. (paper) are put into groups of 10 or 12 with an elastic wrapped around the bundle of rolls. There is no contact between coin & elastic. I saw first hand that elastic bands tend to melt onto copper cents over time when I was given a jar of pennies that had been sitting for 30 years with buttons & elastics mixed in. And you cannot clean the rubber band off. The cents were ruined. When you buy rolls of coins from the bank they come wrapped in elastic bands so I thought that was the approved method of storing them. Shrink wrap sounds expensive plus I'm not sure about fighting to keep the rolls from falling over while trying to get the wrap tight enough around them, I'm not sure Saran wrap will hold them tight enough. I do have some in boxes that I got from the bank but they hold fifty rolls and trying to find a particular year can be a pain. Even with the date marked on the roll. Any other ideas?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Rubber bands are nasty around coins. There doesn't even have to be contact with the coin to cause problems.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I mark the date on the top of my tubes so finding a year is really simple. If you are working with uncirculated coins definitely get tubes so much easier to work with and keeps the coins safe.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I wrapped a rubber band on uncirculated rolls of pennies.
They area where the rubber band was had turned the edges of the pennies black.
Whatever chemicals were being emitted seeped through the mint wrap.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I also had the experience the rubber band make the penny roll or loonie roll turning black. It may not be caused by the rubber band directly, may be the plastic wrap itself is not really numismatic safe. The pressure caused by the rubber band make the coin and the plastic wrap have tight contact with the coins thus make the coins black.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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If you need great rubber bands, ask your posty or his / her supervisor where to buy the thick blue ones used to wrap mail bundles.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It's the sulphur in the rubber that turns the coins black. Sulphur is also found in eggs, so if you leave your good sterling sitting in the breakfast dishes too long you can begin to notice them turn dark as well. What you have to realize is that paper, and even cheap plastics to some extent, are porous, so the rubber ends up working it's hideous magic through them over time. I've seen more than one unopened roll go that way unfortunately, and it doesn't take very long.
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