Finest Spanish Mahogany coin cases, French polished, brass locks and handles, holds over 1300 coins most expensive is around $11 (£7) and the cheapest is about $1.35 (18 Shillings) If only I could travel back in time:rollling: I found these advertised in a British coin shop album from about 1895.
I got a picture of the shop and his price list for his coins. 1844 Half Farthing in Mint condition 7d with free postage. In todays money thats around £0.03 Pence or $0.048 :rollling:
Some of the custom built cases had very intricate and ornate features. They were beautiful , but absolutely " Deadly " to the coins and medallions they were thought to protect.
When reading the original post I thought about how "safe" it would be to store coins in this kind of cabinet. Do you, or anyone else here, happen to know what kind of negative result one could expect from storing coins in this kind of case? It is a beautiful case, though.
i have a small maple box, im thinking its time to do an experiment, ill leave some spendable quarters in there for a year, and ill see what happens
Won't have anywhere near as much of an effect as silver seems to react a bit more harshly to those types of conditions. Go get some silver dimes/quarters, and leave those in there for a year.
sounds like a plan, i have some wicked worn out 6 pence and canadian dimes, so ill put those and an old quarter in the box,
I was thinking more nicer-condition stuff... on very worn coins, the metal flow lines are pretty much gone, and that could have a substantial impact on how the "toning" flows over the coin.
into the oak box goes... 1 1966 bermuda 50c 1 1953-d USA quarter 4 canadian dimes (1947, 66, and (2) 68s) a well worn 1900 6 pence and a g4 1920 canadian dime how should i go about this? should i tape it up and put it in a warm spot, or keep it in my room and flip the coins every 2 months? im not sure how to get the best (or worst) results. and are there any coins that i should not put into the box? the quarter is at least VF
I would treat them like a "typical" collection. Leave them in the box in a place where you would normally store such a box in your house/apartment, etc. And open the box every so often. Take the coins out, put them back in. Just to recreate the usage of such a box when they were more commonly used.
