Last Thursday my boss bought a rather large collection. A rather large collection that had been in a basement that flooded actually. In this collection there were pages and pages of coins in 2x2s. Some were so moldy you couldn't even see the coins within. Took me over two days to wade through this mess. It stunk, I was constantly washing my hands, making sure not to touch my eyes etc. I separated all of the Indian cents after I pulled out the better Lincolns. Still need to sort the rest of the Indians as it is but in that batch of nasty stuff I have found: A nice VG-F 1862 Indian 1908-S Solid G4 coin 1871 AG but not too horrible. 5 Civil War Tokens. All are VF-XF IMHO Why am I touting the wonders of 2x2s? Well, these were so nasty that many of them literally disingrated when I pulled them from the pages. However the plastic was still intact. At least 90% of these coin suffered NO DAMAGE. I would not doubt if these have been in those 2x2s for twenty years. Good old 2x2s. Now I love them even more. clembo
And we have one more supporter for the old tried and true standby. Imagine if they'd been in leaky slabs... Yuck! Ben
Just remember to make sure the staples ends are in yhe cardboard . BTW just found 4 more coins that my wife brought back from the bank last week , they were in a envolope with old savinging bonds , a 46-P MS walker had the staples ends sticking straight out , lucky no damage this time , thank God . rzage
I have a few coins that have been in the same 2x2 since the 1960s and they don't look any different now than they did 40 years ago.
