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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1847611, member: 19463&quot;]Oak fumes tone coins.&nbsp; Mahogany is more inert.&nbsp; People like toned coins better today than they once did so maybe oak is not as bad as it once was.&nbsp; If I lived in England where the hobby has been practiced for centuries, I would keep an eye out for coin cabinets from the century before last.&nbsp; I suspect wood fumes dissipate with time.&nbsp; I once saw a wood cabinet over six feet tall and four feet wide with hundreds of little narrow drawers.&nbsp; I suspect buying it now for what seems like a lot of money will be recouped when it is sold by your grandchildren.&nbsp; Custom cabinetry does not get cheap. </p><p>I have recently been moving my coins from trays to 2x2 paper envelopes in single row boxes that store most efficiently in the safe deposit box.&nbsp;&nbsp; I try to look at each coin once a year but probably don&#039;t really do that.&nbsp; I have photos of every coin I own and look at the photos so having the coins in open trays means less than it used to.&nbsp; The correct answers for this depends on whether you have 30 or 3000 coins.&nbsp; Part of me wants to sell off enough coins that I could pick up the ones that are left all at once.&nbsp; I can not do that now. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I had 300 coins, I would not consider anything besides open trays.&nbsp; I love the way they allow playing with the coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was younger when this photo was taken and my collection was smaller.</p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/108912617.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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