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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 115910, member: 4552&quot;]Hasn&#039;t been brought up millions of times but thousands for sure. Now if you want my suggestions on this subject, there are many methods to storing coins.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Go to a funeral home and buy well paded coffin. Keep this in you bedroom with you coins in there. It will not really protect the coins from tarnishing, toning, etc but for safety, can&#039;t be beat. How many crooks would look in there.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Then there is the ceptic tank method. Have a sewer company put in a false ceptic tank in your back yard. Crooks will never look in there either. Don&#039;t keep your best ones in there though due to the excessive moisture in the ground.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; If you put the coins in a safe or meta gun cabinet and there is a fire, the metal will absorb the heat extensively and cook your coins. If sufficient heat, you&#039;ll end up with one big coin in the shape of a blob. </p><p>&nbsp; Now if you know someone in the construction buisness, have them pour you a concrete box, insert all your coins, cover with more concrete. You will now be leaving a time capsule for the future coin collectors. </p><p>&nbsp; Myself, I put almost all my best coins in the banks safe deposit box. I keep all albums, 2x2&#039;s, Mint proof and Uncirc sets in plastic like the baggies used for the freezer foods. Many of the coins I have by the roll are in plastic rolls and the cover is sealed with scotch tape. I also have a heck of a household dehumidifier although that is no big thing. I do not and never have used silica or other moisture absorbing stuff. If you are in an area where the humidity is normally over 30%, you would need tons of that stuff. I have been a coin collector for well over 50 years and do not have any toning, tarnishing, corroding problems on any of my coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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