Storing Security Bags

I'm anything but an expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but since nobody else has yet replied: any surface contamination can/will react with air over time to discolour your coins. These days many coins come directly from the mint in sealed air-tight capsules. For coins that are not "slabbed" or in capsules, the single best thing you could probably do for them is put them in air tight capsules.

jonmac

If you're going to store $2 ( or $1 ) coins in a plastic or similar bag, I'd cut up some tissues into squares bigger than the $2 coins and place a piece of these tissue squares in between each coin, with a tissue square on the top and bottom coin. Then carefully roll the coins up in a tissue. The tissue squares in between each coin stops the $2 coins from contacting each other and rolling the coins up in tissue(s) stops the coins from coming into any contact with the plastic bag, and can keep the coins moisture free.

The coins will stay in the same perfect untarnished/untoned condition.

From my experience, the best storage for any coins, in your case $2 coins, is to go down to your chemist and ask if you can buy some transparent 70 mm tall No.8 tablet containers ( No.12 for 20c and $1 coins - Toolcraft is the tablet container brand my chemist uses ). Place a small tissue square inside the bottom of the container and then after you've put a tissue square in between each of your carefully stacked up $2 coins, you can carefully slide the tablet container over the stack of $2 coins. Before putting the lid on the tablet container, use a piece of tissue to plug any space between the coins and the lid.

I hope this helps you, or anyone else, in storing their coins properly and safely for a long time.

cheers

Basil

Each to their own, but from my tried and tested experience of well over 40 years with coins proves otherwise to what Coin Dealers and " Experts " advise. I should have stated tissue paper like Woolworth's brand 95c a box of 200 facial tissues, which is ideal for me because the coins have always remained perfect.

The problem of tarnishing/discolouring coins has always been mostly with the $1 coins ( 92% copper) and, to a lesser extent, the $2 coins ( apart from the 1c and 2c of the early RAM's Red Wallets sets, and the " dark spotted " 1c and 2c from many of the 1986 mint sets). Unless removed from their folders ASAP, ALL $1 coins eg. the 2005 $1 Gallipoli series, will discolour because the coin comes into contact with the plastic " window " of the folder , and is usually stored flat rather than upright. At the same time, $1 and $2 coins in rolls rarely discolour, apart from sometimes the top and bottom coins, though mainly through poor storage.

Hope some of this helps.