How do you store your coins?

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by kolhoznik, Dec 9, 2014.

  1. howboutatrade

    howboutatrade Active Member

    I use 2x2 for some, Dansco albums, airtites, and Whitman type Coin Holders are my preferred way. I can still take them out to look at them in my hands. No staples or slides. Fit in storage binder pages made by Eagle Coin Holders. P1050275.JPG P1050277.JPG
     
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  3. howboutatrade

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    Here is another type from Eagle Coin Holders ... coin in it is sentimental as it came from my Grandmother's box of saved coins...my father liked this kind of holder. This one has an insert like a cardboard 2x2, but the case is plastic, can be reused, no staples, etc. My favorite combo (Whitman holder /Eagle page as seen in previous post) are not the cheapest way to store coins, but I do find them the most enjoyable. P1050278.JPG
     
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  4. treylxapi47

    treylxapi47 Well-Known Member Dealer

    Here's a link to a store that sells pages for the round airtites or square hard 2x2s like above. These can go into a multi use binder.

    http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/lighthouse-coin-albums/

    I am looking for a company that makes a 'dansco' like album that holds like 5 pages with 5 airtite slots on each page. I know I've seen it somewhere!
     
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  6. H8_modern

    H8_modern Attracted to small round-ish art

    Mine are loose in a padlocked iron chest buried somewhere in the northern hemisphere.
     
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  7. mlov43

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    I store my coins in 2X2s for short-term storage, but my more valuable/cherished coins in airtites sandwiched between a US Dollar 2X2, so they can "stand up" inside my storage boxes.

    Other, more cherished coins go in my albums that I doctored to fit airtites:
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    AND everything stored in a metal box (no PVC), that includes several dessicant devices inside (recharged every two months) that has a tightened lid and a silicone seal to help keep moisture out (below).
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  8. johnno92

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  9. saltysam-1

    saltysam-1 Junior Member

    All of mine are either slabbed or in airtites. I save only U.S. classics, so if it's not slabbed, I'll purchase the needed airtite when I obtain the coin. However, I always have several each of the common sizes on hand at all times. I photograph all my coins before they go on display or into the bank. Displays are changed with fresh items every 6 months. They are for my eyes only and it is how I personally enjoy my collection.
     
  10. joecoincollect

    joecoincollect Well-Known Member

    Ok, very nice storage ideas. However, isn't the metal storage box or at least the absorbers overkill? The coins are in air tight capsules, so why worry about the box and stuff? Just curious
     
  11. joecoincollect

    joecoincollect Well-Known Member

    I actually have a lot of those plastic 2x2s. But are they really airtight? I've read in many places that they are better for long term storage but when I put in a coin they usually seem like air seeps in somehow. Those circular ones have a tighter fit, don't you think?
     
  12. howboutatrade

    howboutatrade Active Member

    Truly airtight...probably not...anything that can be opened probably allows a little air in over long periods. Slabs are completely sealed for reasons and one is that it keeps air out.

    Circular airtights are probably better from that perspective. They seal all the way around. The square have seals on the sides, but the corners are not...easier to open at that point. The squares seal in roughly the same way as a US Mint proof set.

    My coins stay in a climate controlled environment (house), so the material is not going through large swings in temperature, humidity levels, contaminant changes.
     
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  13. okbustchaser

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  14. joecoincollect

    joecoincollect Well-Known Member

    I've heard slabs are the best, but they are not actually air tight. One tpg claims to be, but I don't think the others do. Air I heard can get through the plastic somehow, I forgot. They are sonically sealed, whatever that means, but not air tight. Some people have even noted whether or not water can get in, but I forgot the result.
     
  15. joecoincollect

    joecoincollect Well-Known Member

    I want to use all my plastic 2x2s but I don't see much of an advantage over my cardboard 2x2s. First, as someone mentioned the plastic ones are no completely air tight. And second, you can't write anything on them, like grade, mintage, country, denomination, and where and how much you paid for it on the back. To me, these thing you write are necessary or very desirable. Maybe all my mint state US coins would be ok in the plastic holders like the Kennedies in the pic
     
  16. mlov43

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    "Airtite" is just a company name, and a good bit of marketing. Nothing more. It doesn't mean that when you put coins in their products that your coins won't be exposed to air. That is a false assumption.

    Airtites do help, but keeping things as dry as possible, as much of the time as possible, is the key to keeping Red coins from becoming Red-Brown.
     
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  18. Legacy

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    No more 2X2 flips for me. Air-tites are terrific and then I put them in storage boxes and then into my safe. When removing coins from 2X2 flips please pull the staples out first. Watched a guy tearing them open at a show and every few minutes I hear him swear as he put tiny scratches in coins from the staples. Definition of insanity?
     
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