Let's see your custom coin storage cabinet or chest

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by Paddy54, Aug 21, 2016.

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  1. mark_h

    mark_h Somewhere over the rainbow

    Looks like I would be there for years - just opening and looking at stuff. I do this all the time at the local shop. I look at all kinds for stuff - just because I like looking. :)
     
    mark_h, Aug 22, 2016
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  3. Stevearino

    Stevearino Well-Known Member

    How does the Bode get around the off-gassing issue...or are all those banks of cabinets made of inert simulated-wood plastic?
    Steve
     
    Stevearino, Aug 22, 2016
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  4. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    Here are a couple of the Lighthouse wooden boxes. As I recall, I paid about $20 each at a coin show. The list price could probably be found on the Lighthouse Webpage. Slabs do look kinda nice in the boxes. However, you can only see one side of the slab unless you pop-out the slab.

    Lighthousebox1.jpg
    Some 1912-S in a Lighthouse Box.jpg
     
    Collect89, Aug 22, 2016
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  5. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    Ummm, I can answer any question in the World. Sometimes the answer is "I don't know".:D I'd guess that they are made of Mahogany & the coins may suffer from outgassing from various materials used in the construction. They are beautiful cabinets aren't they?
     
    Collect89, Aug 22, 2016
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  6. Stevearino

    Stevearino Well-Known Member

    Fantastic. Must have cost a king's ransom to build that bank of cabinets. Imagine what the value of the contents is!
    Steve
     
    Stevearino, Aug 22, 2016
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  7. rickyc

    rickyc Member

    New at toning. Is it good or bad? Have heard some of both sides. My 1960's silver has started darkening in some places but not evenly.

    Thanks = Rick
     
    rickyc, Aug 23, 2016
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  8. Paul M.

    Paul M. Well-Known Member

    It can be any of the above, or none of the above, depending how it looks.
     
    Paul M., Aug 23, 2016
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  9. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    I am
     
    Paddy54, Aug 23, 2016
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  10. Paddy54

    Paddy54 Well-Known Member

    I need to see if I can find his contact info , its been years since this chest was made but I'm sure his information is around here somewhere . I haven't had any issues with coins toning in the case . And some of the coins have been in it since I received it.
     
    Paddy54, Aug 23, 2016
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  11. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    What a lot of people don't understand is that in a great many cases, maybe even the majority of them, museums do not follow proper storage procedures. As a matter of fact many of them don't follow proper anything procedures. Take the Smithsonian for example, their idea of keeping the coins presentable for display is to wipe them down with cloths every so often.

    Does that give you an idea of how museums treat coins ?
     
    GDJMSP, Aug 23, 2016
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  12. physics-fan3.14

    physics-fan3.14 You got any more of them.... prooflikes?

    For modern coins, or coins which were brilliant when purchased, these are probably a really bad way to store them, as GDJMSP mentioned (although, many leading museums have realized that is a bad way to treat coins and have been improving).

    However, Collect89 said that a large number of the coins were ancients. These usually have a thick patina already. Storing them in a wooden cabinet will have little to no effect after having been in the dessert or dirt or wherever for 2000 years already.
     
    physics-fan3.14, Aug 23, 2016
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