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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1725729, member: 112"]Steve - Those are just as bad if not worse than plain paper envelopes. The cotton liners will hairline the coins. Now this may be less of a concern with circulated coins than with MS or Proof coins, but more hairlines with do nothing but help lower the grade even on circ coins. And if the movement of the coins happens often enough inside those cotton sleeves it may even result in the coins having a somewhat polished appearance, turning a problem free coin into a problem coin. I will add this Steve. Your experiences and storage habits are no different than a great many others who began collecting decades ago. And when they started they used methods that were current and acceptable at the time. And then they continued to use those methods even until today in some cases, kinda like you. I myself started collecting in 1960 so I am quite familiar with what you are describing. But over the years many things have changed and we have a learned from our past mistakes. With many of those mistakes having to do with improper storage. It's just like it is with anything else in life. At one point in time there were many things that we thought were the right way to go, the right thing to do. But years later, sometimes decades later, we learned that what we thought was right, was not right at all.[/QUOTE]