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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 67594, member: 2761"]Ahhhhh...balancing storage, presentation and protection.  First and foremost...coins need to be stored in low humdity and room temperatures.  If you store you coins in a box, cabinet, drawer or safe, make sure you use those silica gel moisture absorbers to help address humidity.  Keep them near inert materials, that is those materials that DON'T give off "bad" gases that can hurt your coins. Now, for my early Lincoln dates, I like using Intercept Shield (2x2's) with Eagle page holders in a Century Archival photo clamshell box.  In other words, I am using products from three differant sources as I haven't found one product that can do it all. For presentation, I use Avery .5 inch by 1.75 inch labels (80 per sheet) and using Microsoft WORD, I type up the year and mint mark for my early Lincolns (before 1944) in #12 Arial font (centered) on the first line and the mintage numbers in #8 font centered on the second line.  I also like to highlight in yellow those coins that are "key" or "rare" For years 1944 and forward, I use standard 2x2's stored in Century Photo clamshell binders. Air tites are good, BUT you better make sure you are NOT enclosing any breath vapor or moisture that will cause the coin to "spot" or "burn" later.[/QUOTE]