You're at a friends house. He knows you collect coins. He gives you one. It's in perfect shape. Its never been held. It's not in a holder. You don't want to handle it. What's the best way to take it home? Do you wrap it in a paper towel or toilet paper? Put it inside a book? Put it in your shirt pocket? What's the safest way to carry it without damaging it?
I wrap mine in toilet paper first, but not the cheap stuff, it's got to be at least 3 ply. Then in a handkerchief, then in a summer themed beach towel, then in a bullet proof suitcase hand cuffed to my wrist. If any things worth doing, it's worth doing right.
Just keep 1 or 2 2x2 flips in your back section of your wallet. Small, takes little space, can hold up to 4 coins separately
Pretty sure paper is harder than ziploc material. More to the point, it has more "edges" to abrade the coin.
Do you know that you can use cheap toilet paper and do same amount of wrapping with cheap ones, but do it 3X.
OK, I stand corrected about my statement about the paper being softer than a ziploc, but how were proof coins shipped from the mint pre-1955?
I understand what you are trying to say but you need to re-think it. From 1936 until 1955 they were placed in cellophane sleeves and then wrapped in tissue paper and then put in a small cardboard box. And before that, they were just wrapped in tissue paper. But you have to remember, they didn't have plastics back then. And you also have to remember that with older Proofs they are most commonly found with hairlines and rarely are any of them assigned higher Proof grades. And to a large degree, that is because there was no good way to transport them without doing some sort of damage to them.
Have him scrape it up pretty good first so that you don't have to worry about damaging it in transit.
Yeah, I forgot that they were packaged in plastic before being wrapped in the tissue. Actually man-made plastics have been around since the 1800's, but materials suitable for packaging coins probably started in the 1930's.
I often overdo things but i'd put it in toilet paper, then wrap that in a paper towel, then put that in a ziplock, then put that in a grocery bag and tie it closed, then ask for a cardboard box with some bubble wrap, then Put that in a backpack.
