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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2269203, member: 112&quot;]If you are using a real ammo box, and by real I mean one issued by the military, those are <u>excellent</u> because they have very good seals on them !&nbsp; My previous comment was made to steer you away from using the cardboard storage boxes sold by coin supply vendors. So you would use something that would not harm your coins. Just make sure you wipe out the ammo box well, inside and out. A clean rag with some pure acetone on it works best. Just don&#039;t get any on the rubber seals. Once wiped out, leave the box open and let it dry for a bit. The acetone will completely evaporate and leave nothing harmful behind. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, as messydesk said - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>- and I addressed that in another recent thread - <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mint-packaging.270257/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mint-packaging.270257/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mint-packaging.270257/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So make sure you remove any cardboard or paper products from your ammo box. Or, make sure you use archival products like messydesk also said. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the &quot;sacrificial pennies&quot; - well, the idea works, but it doesn&#039;t work in a way. Yes, the pennies will eat some of the harmful gasses. But they will not stop those harmful gasses from getting to your other coins in the same storage container. In other words, even if the pennies get corroded by harmful gasses, so will your other coins. That&#039;s because the pennies are not &quot;magnets&quot; that magically draw the harmful gasses away from the other coins thus protecting those other coins. They just get corroded first because they don&#039;t have the other layers of protection like a good quality coin holder that your other coins hopefully do have. So your other coins still do get corroded with the pennies present, but merely at a slower rate because they are in coin holders. </p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, if harmful gasses are getting to the pennies, those same harmful gasses are getting to your other coins as well because the gasses are in the air everywhere, not just being drawn to the pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>So while the pennies are good indicators, they are not really protectors. You still need other things to protect your collection coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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