I opened my safe and found dust/pollen on my Silver Dollar boxes. Help!!

when did they stop making it? 1657?

 

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The plastic rectangle type ones at sporting good stores are nice. When they turn pink you just plug them in to a wall outlet overnight. This one is labeled Remington but there are a lot that look exactly the same with different labels. Costco had a decent Chinese Winchester 4 cubic foot safe a while back for $300. All steel and seemed sturdy enough. I keep two of the desiccant dealies in there and a hygrometer and it's about 40% humidity. Not the most secure safe in the world but it would be pretty obvious if someone tried to cart it off - it's about 200 pounds. All the good stuff goes to the SDB anyway. Which makes me think I'll check the humidity in the SDB the next time I visit.

 

The dial has hieroglyphs.

 

Sentry safes are not a good safe for collectibles, they use a wet plaster type of fire insulation. It causes moisture build up.

This stack on safe is $450 shipped. May not be a fort knox as far as security, but it's made MUCH better than the sentry safe.

http://www.amazon.com/Stack-On-E-029-SB-C-Executive-Combination-Silver/dp/B0058DHZ84

To give you an idea of how flimsy the sentry safes are..I got one at an auction for a dollar cuz it was locked and no one had the they. I had it cut open with a axe in about 2 minutes.

 

no wonder GD quit collecting he couldn't open the safe to see his coins

 

I would be careful of Stack-On as well. Same quality as Sentry. They just look better.

 

Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated.

 

Simple solution, place the coins in a ziploc bag then into the safe.......

 

Thank you. At this time, I think the ziploc bag is the route I am going to take. Of course I've got some thorough cleaning to do first! And I'm going to look into getting some new desiccants - I don't want to take any chances. Regarding disposable desiccants, how do you know when they are "expired"? As far as a reusable, I found this and it sounds pretty good...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037Z8K3E/ref=gno_cart_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1VAOWZNDCV6C6

 

Personally, I,d throw away the contaminated boxes. Mold spores are nasty and remain active along, long time . A thorough decontamination is in order IMO. GOOD LUCK

 

swap it out

 

Mold spores are scary--definitely research the **** out of that.

 

yes its not funny someone I know collapsed on a plane to china because of spores in his apartment