I don't know if this is the right forum or not, but if it isn't, please move. Just bought a couple of 50-roll boxes of 2009 Lincolns. They are OBW rolls, but I'm not sure who the vendor is because they haven't been shipped to me yet. They're not NF String or Brinks. If I want to store these long term, say several years, are these BU Lincolns going to be safe paper wrapped, or should they be put in tubes? Thanks for your input!
OBW tend to command higher prices down the road especially if there turns out to be any varieties. Look at wheats bu OBW rolls are double bu plastic rolls and sometimes people pay more for say a 1955 roll in OBW looking for that 55 double die. Only ones I know of 2009 are the extra finger business on the formative years but who knows what will come out 10 or 20 years from now. Think about it would you rather look for extra fingers in a tube roll that anyone can open at any time and look through? or an OBW roll that you have to open to look through? Plus the paper will eventually degrade and tone the coins so any toned coin hunters out there may be interested in the OBW. If you are looking for prestine condition however putting them in tubes and then somehow sealing them (I know dealers who use a certain kind of tape for capital holders and tubes) to keep them as airtite as possible and then storing them in #1 or #5 plastic bins with dessicants for humidity is the way to go. Personally for mine I bought three sets of rolls. One open and tubed and one set of them I'm keeping OBW, and the third is OBW IN a plastic tube.
Thanks for the info, dannic. I'm particularly concerned about the paper the coins are wrapped being acidic. I doubt a 3rd party roll wrapping company would care much about whether or not their paper was non-acidic. However, a Wikipedia article said that much of the commercially produced paper is acid-free, so maybe there's hope. I really don't want to put these coins in tubes for the reason you mentioned (the "unsearched" premium I might get down the road). Any other thoughts our there?
Are you holding them for resale value? Keep them in the box. Keep the box in a safe dry place. I'd be more worried about the shrink-wrap plastic rolls than the paper rolls, tbh.
