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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 5296979, member: 105571&quot;]Rich, welcome to CT and I hope your time here proves as rewarding to you as it has been to me.&nbsp; I am assuming your question is asking for assistance for your own situation rather than strictly academic so, let me help you by asking you to help us answer your question.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a gazillion threads on CT that deal with every possible aspect of this topic, and I only exaggerate slightly.</p><p><br /></p><p>To a very real extent, it depends almost entirely upon what you are trying to store and why.&nbsp; For example, the advice for storing modern US circulated coinage would be significantly less involved than that for 18th century full-red US large cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, what do you mean by &quot;protective gear&quot;?&nbsp; From fire?&nbsp; Theft?&nbsp; Flooding?&nbsp; Corrosion?&nbsp; Physical impact damage?&nbsp; The answers are manifold and highly dependent upon what you are trying to protect against and what you are willing to spend to achieve it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that said, in brief, decide what your protective goals and needs are and how you would prioritize them because your ultimate solution will be a series of compromises.&nbsp; Then do a search of prior threads here to see if it has already been covered - it almost certainly has.&nbsp; Then, if you still have questions, focus them on specifics so we don&#039;t have to write 30 pages in the hope that we&#039;ve addressed your question.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, here&#039;s a list of primary hazards and issues to coins and your own wealth and personal safety that you should consider when you are trying to design a group of storage methods.&nbsp; Pretty much all other issues are a sub-topic of one of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>1)&nbsp; Value of your collection, now and in future, and your budget to protect them.</p><p>2)&nbsp; Environmentally-caused problems such as corrosion, toning, verdigris:&nbsp; These require environmental control which incudes humidity, temperature, light.</p><p>3)&nbsp; Packaging-caused problems such as corrosion, toning, verdigris:&nbsp; These require selection of individual coin packaging that will eliminate or minimize packaging-induced changes in the coins. </p><p>4)&nbsp; Physical Damage:&nbsp; Hard vs. soft coin packaging.</p><p>5)&nbsp; Physical Security:&nbsp; Theft, Fire, etc.&nbsp; Home vs SDB.&nbsp; Home safe vs. no safe.&nbsp; Alarm system vs. dog.&nbsp; Issues such as untrustworthy visitors to your home.&nbsp; Do you have family members who would be prone to talk to outsiders about your holdings.&nbsp; For example; a friend of mine (nice, upper middle-class family living in a quite nice neighborhood) who had a nice collection of hunting rifles and shotguns in a home gun safe, had a teenage daughter who talked about them to her boyfriend who mentioned it to some of his friends.&nbsp; Next thing, they were home-invaded, pistol-whipped and forced to open the safe.&nbsp; The perps turned out to be three-times removed from his daughter, a classic &quot;six degrees of Kevin Bacon&quot; scenario.</p><p>6)&nbsp; Insurance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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