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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;joecoincollect, post: 2460831, member: 71338&quot;][ATTACH=full]515816[/ATTACH] My local dealer who&#039;s had a family shop for 40 years told me cardboard 2x2s are fine as long as you push the staples down. It&#039;s impractical to house over a thousand individual world coins that I have in anything but these 2x2s. I then put them in pages and binders. They&#039;ve been in here for several years, are checked regularly, and no problems have arisen. I also have another thousand in those 2x2 boxes (some are intercept brand). Again, no problems. Even many numismatic authors in books and websites maintain these 2x2s can be used temporarily for years. i come across coins all the time in older 2x2s, probably for over a decade, and they look fine. I get my holders at the shop, 100 for 3 dollars. I think we should all be grateful that these holders are so cheap and available, benefitting a greater amount of coins that might have been just left in jars or bags. Now, for expensive coins (50 dollars or more) I&#039;ve been putting them in airtights for better security, then saflips so I can add a piece of paper with my notes on it. Then they also go into pages and binders. I also use dansco slide albums, plastic boxes for slabs - a whole lot of everything. The numerous methods of storage I use are well known and used by many collectors, for good reasons. You have to factor in convenience, cost, and storage space in addition to coin preservation, especially if you are a collector like me and collect with quantity first in mind, then quality. I&#039;m not going to even think of hard plastic 2x2s or airtights for world coins a few dollars or less (and this is retail, too). Look at the pics for an idea of my storage methods[ATTACH=full]515815[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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