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<p>[QUOTE="Boss, post: 482545, member: 15110"]Well, Doug, I appreciate your response. I can't compete with your experience or </p><p># of posts, etc, -I am probably half your age. I agree with proper strorage methods and use them all: 40% or less humidity (in the safe deposit box-best I can do where I live), all coins in either Intercept 2 x 2's or airtights, all in Intercept box's, in ziplock type bags that the air can be removed from, with rechargeable dessicants, fresh modern pennies to take the oxidation before my valuable coins do (you don't agree with this but that is all the Intercept product does anyways, so I am just adding the Intercept's effectiveness), and I look at them a lot less now that I have good photos of them. I am sure many people will say don't coat with oils. I read a post here about Blue Ribbon leaving a haze, I just got some and put on some low value coins and will wait and see. I have used Coin Care and noticed it did leave a haze after time. The only thing I am advocating to further protect coins is 100% mineral oil- whether the coin is low or high grade. You yourself have acknowledged the mint sends off all new coins with a fine layer of oil on the coins. Adding to it 100 years later with the same product that first protected it- where is there a fallacy in this. That makes no sense. Everybody should try an experiment. Put Coin Care, Blue Ribbon, vasoline, mineral oil and then nothing on several pre-1982 lincolns. Acetone all of them first. Leave them in your kitchen in an airtight for 6 months. Take before and after photos. The kitchen would mimic a non-friendly coin environment filled with things in the air we all fear, but can't see- surlfur, moisture, contaminants. I argue an unoiled coin in a hostile environment is at much greater risk than a freshly acetoned coin. Go back to the chemistry arguement. No one has made a scientific arguement for why this would damage the coins. All coins came into this world with oil. Why do we store them otherwise? The only exception, as I stated earlier is proof or PL coins- oil blurs the finish in my experience. You will say the oil has contaminants. Has that been proven? I argue the contaminants can't touch the airborne contaminants in terms of destructiveness. As well those contaminants are coated by the oil effectively sealing them off. Where am I wrong? One's authority does not help here. What is the scientific or logical reason that these assertions are incorrect? Any opinions welcome. </p><p>PS- sorry I got off from the original topic, but they all tie together. We are all trying to figure out the best way to care for our investments/treasures for now and the future. Whether that's how you hold or touch or store a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Boss, post: 482545, member: 15110"]Well, Doug, I appreciate your response. I can't compete with your experience or # of posts, etc, -I am probably half your age. I agree with proper strorage methods and use them all: 40% or less humidity (in the safe deposit box-best I can do where I live), all coins in either Intercept 2 x 2's or airtights, all in Intercept box's, in ziplock type bags that the air can be removed from, with rechargeable dessicants, fresh modern pennies to take the oxidation before my valuable coins do (you don't agree with this but that is all the Intercept product does anyways, so I am just adding the Intercept's effectiveness), and I look at them a lot less now that I have good photos of them. I am sure many people will say don't coat with oils. I read a post here about Blue Ribbon leaving a haze, I just got some and put on some low value coins and will wait and see. I have used Coin Care and noticed it did leave a haze after time. The only thing I am advocating to further protect coins is 100% mineral oil- whether the coin is low or high grade. You yourself have acknowledged the mint sends off all new coins with a fine layer of oil on the coins. Adding to it 100 years later with the same product that first protected it- where is there a fallacy in this. That makes no sense. Everybody should try an experiment. Put Coin Care, Blue Ribbon, vasoline, mineral oil and then nothing on several pre-1982 lincolns. Acetone all of them first. Leave them in your kitchen in an airtight for 6 months. Take before and after photos. The kitchen would mimic a non-friendly coin environment filled with things in the air we all fear, but can't see- surlfur, moisture, contaminants. I argue an unoiled coin in a hostile environment is at much greater risk than a freshly acetoned coin. Go back to the chemistry arguement. No one has made a scientific arguement for why this would damage the coins. All coins came into this world with oil. Why do we store them otherwise? The only exception, as I stated earlier is proof or PL coins- oil blurs the finish in my experience. You will say the oil has contaminants. Has that been proven? I argue the contaminants can't touch the airborne contaminants in terms of destructiveness. As well those contaminants are coated by the oil effectively sealing them off. Where am I wrong? One's authority does not help here. What is the scientific or logical reason that these assertions are incorrect? Any opinions welcome. PS- sorry I got off from the original topic, but they all tie together. We are all trying to figure out the best way to care for our investments/treasures for now and the future. Whether that's how you hold or touch or store a coin.[/QUOTE]
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