Leave them in the rolls........whether they are String & Son Fed. Resv. wrapped rolls from your bank, or ESPICIALLY, if they're U.S. Mint Two Roll Set "
Official" wrapped rolls. (a high premium was paid for the Official Mint wrapped rolls, so it definitely wouldn't be smart to open
those rolls obviously)
I'm not clear on which type of roll you have.
The key to the storage here is "where" you store them. It needs to be a low humidity place....and let no air get to them if possible.
Use silica gel packs or some kind of moisture remover.
A home safe is not good enough by itself.
Environmental gasses and a whole array of other detrimental factors WILL begin to put an ugly tarnish on these coins if you don't care for them adequately, might still happen even if you DO.
You will lose any "original Official U.S. Mint" paper
value that
someone will or rather "may" have for that if you unwrap them and put them into tubes. Then they'd just become an average
Presidential dollar that could have come from ANYWHERE.
The "premium" paid for these then becomes quite redundant and senseless.Even the String & Son wrappers should be kept intact, IMO.
Hand rolled or bank rolled ones won't ever have any "wrapper premium", if there ever will be, that's for sure.
Go to an arts and crafts store, actually, You'll find some PVC free plastic tubes and containers, that are OVERSIZED, that will fit your rolls in, maybe even small ziplock baggies for each roll.
You can't fit a wrapped roll into a dollar coin tube, regretfully, so that's why I suggest looking around at other "containers".
Posted 02/21/2011 4:50 pm
