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Storing Silver Coins In Titanium

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when you say its dangerous what exactly do you mean? will you get electrocuted? explosion?
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We used to use stainless steel chests for storing infrequently used copper molds. To abate any chance of pitting or damage I just sprayed the stainless with a light coat of polyester resin (AKA liquid fibreglass resin). It's a long chain synthetic polymer basically impervious to anything and can be UV stabilized as well with an additive if required.

Later, when I built new ones, I switched to lining them with sheets of teflon which had become available and was about as inert as it anything on the planet.

I've stored coins in telfon wraps before but anything needing long term storage I always used plastic tubes since they are cheap, plentiful and offer great damage resistance and always happen to be just the right size.
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found a very informative link:

http://www.engineersedge.com/galvan...tability.htm

according to that link, titanium has a anodic index of .30 and silver ahs an anodic index of .15.

Above the chart it states what differences can be tolerated in which environments. So for example, in a harsh environment with salt and moisture, there should be no more than a .15 difference in the anodic index. So even in a harsh environment silver and titanium would be ok, just like gold and silver are ok (gold has an anodic index of 0). I think this is why I have seen silver/titanium jewelry.

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We used to use stainless steel chests for storing infrequently used copper molds. To abate any chance of pitting or damage I just sprayed the stainless with a light coat of polyester resin (AKA liquid fibreglass resin). It's a long chain synthetic polymer basically impervious to anything and can be UV stabilized as well with an additive if required.

Any usage of Stainless Steels for anything should be investigated as to the ASTM ratings. There are virtually many hundreds of types of Stainless Steels. Some are actually non-magnetic due to the composition. Such are used for medical supplies and for operations work well. Some will actually Stain, rust, tarnish, etc. Many of the SO CALLED Stainless Steels flooding into our country from certain other places list on their products Stainless Steel. This is usually the lowest possible grade allowed to be classified as Stainless Steel. As an example many knives from Pakistan are labled Stainless Steel and contain small amounts of dangerously poisonous substances but meet the bottom scale of Steel standards.
I really find it so amazing how so many of us attempt to find the perfect storage container for coins and those little plastic rolls work so well.
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when you say its dangerous what exactly do you mean? will you get electrocuted? explosion?


Absolutely the largest, biggest, most powerful implosion ever made by even a Volcano. Or nothing will happen at all.
By dangerous it is simply that if the situation is presented to create an electrical charge it will actuall happen at the point of contact of those metals. In most instances the temperature is to trivial to really make a large current of any proportions. In most instances a change of as much as 5 degrees will hardley make a noticable electrical charge but sufficient enough to record if the wires carrying the charge are well shielded, in the proper insulation and jacketing and in a continuous steel conduit.
What is being discussed is the fact that eventually over a period of time, at the point of contact, the metals will start to dissintigrate if the temperature changes are significent. And this too is dependant on the type of metals touching each other.
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