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Valued Member
United States
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This subject has probably been kicked around here several times.But I'm a new member and I havent seen it.A couple things I do is keep coins in the plastic airtite roll containers,some of the pill bottles you get from the pharmacy work too.If you can find the old 50 caliber ammo boxes ,there perfect to store rolls of coins and coin albums.These ammo box's have a rubber gasket and are airtite.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I use the plastic NGC boxes to keep my slabbed coins and just put my ones in Mylar holder and Airtites in plastic boxes you can get from Home Depot. I don't keep rolls and large lots of anything.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
528 Posts |
I keep my coins in 2x2 flips and put them into binders.
Slabbed coins stay in a drawer in a wooden chest that I have that has a lot of small drawers.
Rolls also get put in drawers.
If the coins are in books (dansco) then they stay on my book shelf
And if its my very expensive coins they go in the safe.
I seem to keeps coins just about every where.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
Place all your coins in a bottle, pour liquid plastic over that, bury in at least one foot of concrete.  Or just lay all coins on a table and pour liquid plastic over them.  All just kidding of course. You could probably search this web site for coin storage, coin protection, uses of safes, etc. Many, many times this comes up. I sure wish there were permanent stickies for coin storage, cleaning coins, safes and a few othe things that are repeated. Of course the good thing about a subject being repeated is the possibly new answers. I've been collecting coins for well over 60 years. I don't believe in wasting money on safes, silicon gel packs, vaults, etc. I put almost all my coins in Whitman Classic Albums. Each one is then put into a Zip Lock plastic bag with as much air pushed out as possible. Now over 100 0f them. All duplicates in 2x2's and then in those Red Whitman type cardboard boxes. So far in 0ver 60 years no problems with toning, corroding, tarnishing, etc. |
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New Member
United States
29 Posts |
Has anyone ever tried storing/protecting coins using a vacuum sealer?
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Valued Member
 United States
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Valued Member
United States
306 Posts |
I tape them to the wall. It keeps the governments GPS signals from getting into the chip they put in my brain. I move every year or two so they don't find me. I leave the coins there as last months rent.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
560 Posts |
Nice magnusxxx. I'll have to try that. Do copper cents work better than the new zinc ones?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
581 Posts |
Basically you've hit the nail on the head. Air-tight. That's what you want - at least for your more cherished coins.
If you have well-circulated coins, then the main goal is to keep them in a climate controlled area (such as a house). Don't really need anything fancy for them.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Has anyone ever tried storing/protecting coins using a vacuum sealer?
I think Mila did a test doing this in the past. You have to remember that the plastics used for those bags are made from chemicals that will possibly harm raw coins. |
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