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Message:: [QUOTE="Drusus, post: 445072, member: 6370"]Agreed. Where I live it gets very humid and I can attest to the fact that very high humidity and stuffy heat will rather quickly effect ones coins. I have had a few unfortunate experiences to the point where I realized that I have a lot of coins made of metal that easily corrodes down to some that are zinc or iron which can rust. I figured if I am going to possess something like this, there is at LEAST a minimum cost I need to factor in to do so without feeling irresponsible. I have some in a safe in airtites (any gold I do not worry quite so much about corrosion) with silica. With silica I use a small container with a porous cloth and buy a big jug of it that lasts a long time. So these coins are in the dark in the bowels of my home in a pretty controlled environment more or less. Given that some coins I have spent 50 years in an ashtray in a desk drawer, my treatment of them is at least an improvement. The rest of them are in a desk I have that has many drawers with velvet lining. The desk is one that encloses the top drawers and desk top so I keep the more common coins in non-PVC holders in rows with silica below and above most of the other coins, not common, not terribly rare. They in a room that is pretty constantly the same temp as I do as is said above with the AC. In a place that is hot and humid it gets so hot that if you turn your air off when you leave, you come back and you are sweating for some time until the temp goes down. In the heat of the day its always chugging to keep it cool and it cant keep up some times. The only coins out are a few fake roman coins I use as decoration and the ones I am photographing and cataloging...wont kill them to be out for a bit here and there. I would rather be able to have them all out and showing and not locked away but its not the best idea.[/QUOTE]

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