What is the best way to store paper money?

I don't collect paper money actively. But I have the normal stack of $2 bills and some Web Notes. How do you store them?

Thanks
Tim

 

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I toss them in sleeves and then into my safe with the rest of my stuff. I don't have anything of any great value, like you.

 

in sleeves - pressed near the bottom of my stack of Whitman coin folders.

 

I also place them in Currency sleeves and put them in the safe . The sleeves prevent further wear and the safe has a Desicant to remove moisture .

 

I have an early fifties silver certificate that looks brand new even today. I got it while collecting from my paper route customers in 1957. I have kept it in my anthology of Yeats poems since the sixties.

 

I take just about all my bills to the bank and deposit them for safe keeping

 

Nails and tape outside on the fence....

Be sure to use the blue tape, it’s easier on the paper.

 

Running a toning experiment, are we?

 

Thanks for the suggesting. My fence is concrete block...maybe garilla tape?

 

I put my currency in a sleeve and then into a currency album. The better ones I send out for certification and then put them in a currency album.

 

Since it's been a bit vague in this thread, it is best to store the notes vertically, as in a binder, rather than flat. Most banknotes have some sort of embossing, whether from intaglio printing, serial numbers, etc, which is considered a good thing to have. Laying notes flat, with weight on top of them, can flatten this out of a banknote.

 

Remember you are talking about paper money , not metallic money. You do not want the lower humidity levels you use for coin storage. Most recommend about 50% humidity for paper. Since that is rather high for coins, perhaps a separate safe?

Jim