Rolls Conservation

The best way is putting the rolls into plastic tubes. in a previous post I suggested sealing the caps with hot wax, but another member outdid my idea and said a simple and easy way is to wrap plumbers tape around the treads of the tube.
this will protect your rolls for years.

I never thought of teflon tape for sealing coin tubes. That is a great idea and will start to use that. What about rolls that have the shrink wrap on them from the mint? I have rolls like that saved. I know the end coins will tone but what about the rest?

Then that means that most or all of the Landon super gem cents will be quickly turning red and then to on to RB....as are the rest of our choice cents..

I have no idea.....seems to me the composition of pennies has changed as time went by? I might add that other red cents that I wanted to add to my collection, whereby I immediately placed into a 2x2 holder without laying them out to "look" are as red as ever, some as early as '50 vintages. My personal learning from this experience - albeit the situation with the 1965 cents might have been caused by higher humidity on that certain day - is if I have the inkling to search through a roll of red cents, it's better to quickly mount them in airtight holders, then look, and not plan to store then in rolls again.

No one else has had the experience of searching through red cents, exposing them to air, causing them to very quickly begin to turn brown (ie tarnish)? My uneducated theory is if a copper coin has been deprived of oxygen within it's environment for several decades, sudden exposure to air causes it to "soak" up oxygen more quickly causing the chemical reaction, compared to the behaviour of a newer red vintage. If this is the case, I would also assume grading companies are well aware of this and that for example, Landon gems, are dealt with in a very carefully controlled environment.

Yes I hear what you say. The thing of it is - similar to my 1965 roll of red cents, which is certainly no comparison by way of value BUT I also purchased it from an auction house and therefore I have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not, at some point prior to the auction, advertised as coming from an estate, that someone didn't open up the roll and recklessly sift through it without bothering to use tweezers or wear gloves. Then by the time I checked the roll, it was already on its way to becoming partially brown regardless of how careful I was. One has absolutely no way of determining the manner of everyone who handles the coins prior to the buyer making the purchase.

Over time, the future of the Langdon red cents will be interesting.

Not necesarrily, I'd need a real good reason to move coins from one type of roll holder to another. But I think the original discussion pertained to the fact that the downside of bank paper rolled coin is that paper can absorb moisture depending on how and where the coin rolls are stored - as opposed to the advantage of being able to securely seal coin in plastic coin roll holders.

Someone please correct me, if I'm wrong.

Sounds like a good way, Rob.

I don't have a whole lot of rolls either, only 9 or 10. I store them in an old tobacco tin with a lid that seals. This same tobacco tin has preserved coins including red pennies back even to the '50s so it's more than proven it works for me. If the coins are in a plastic tube, I stuff a small piece of a cotton ball into the end of the roll so the coins are snug. I also pack the tin with cotton balls, to remove the air and keep them in place.

I'd agree in some silica gel packs too. For moisture. Interesting thread.