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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2746372, member: 112&quot;]Given the time frames you&#039;re talking about regarding the history of the coins, it&#039;s probably not going to hurt anything for you to leave them as they are. At least as long as you are living in the same general area as where the coins have been stored for the past few decades. And, as long as conditions in your home are not too different from they were/are in your mom&#039;s home.</p><p><br /></p><p>The enemies of coins are the air, moisture, and storage materials. Any kind of paper products even being around the coins is almost always a bad idea. But like I said, you say they have been in paper rolls and or shoe boxes for a long time. So unless there is a significant increase in humidity at your house over what was at your mom&#039;s house - leaving them where they are probably won&#039;t hurt anything at this point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if there are some nice coins and you wish to store them properly, and work on the collection as you mentioned, then yeah there are some things you should change. What I&#039;m going to tell you is what you &quot;should do&quot;, what is the best storage option for the coins. It is not however the cheapest or easiest option. And not everybody does what I&#039;m going to suggest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ideally each coin should be stored in an Air-Tite coin holder. Air-Tite is a brand name of coin holders, and no they are not airtight. No coin holder is airtight, no such thing even exists. There are other brands of hard plastic coin holders but all of them are even more expensive than Air-Tites. Expensive is relative of course, but to give you an idea the largest holders (for the largest coins) are going to cost about 55-60 cents each. You can see them here -</p><p><a href="http://www.jpscorner.com/airtite-coin-holders.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jpscorner.com/airtite-coin-holders.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jpscorner.com/airtite-coin-holders.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; That shop&#039;s prices are about as good as any.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there&#039;s more to proper storage than that. Once in the holders, the holders should be placed in a container that can be closed, sealed, like a large Tupperware container for example. And in the container you should also have one of these -</p><p><a href="http://www.jpscorner.com/silica-gel-humidity-control.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jpscorner.com/silica-gel-humidity-control.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jpscorner.com/silica-gel-humidity-control.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; - the 40 gram size, 2nd image from the left. That will help keep the humidity inside the container as low as possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the container should be stored in a cool, dark area, like maybe inside an interior closet. And it is best if that closet does not have any walls that border on the outside walls. Near the exterior walls of your home are where the largest temperature changes occur, and you want to avoid temperature changes as much as possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now like I said paper or paper products of any kind is a bad idea. Paper contains sulphur and that&#039;s bad for coins. So, the coins in rolls should be transferred to plastic con tubes, assuming you wish to keep them in roll form. These are coin tubes - <a href="http://www.jpscorner.com/coin-tubes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jpscorner.com/coin-tubes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jpscorner.com/coin-tubes.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And coins the shoe boxes, maybe put into small Tupperware containers and those put into the large one, or large ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s about it. Do those things and you will have done about as good as you can do to store the coins properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a good start, from there you&#039;ve only got a lifetimes worth of other things to learn <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But that&#039;s part of what makes the hobby fun - the learning. And folks here will be glad to help you do that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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