Packaging of Coins

I want to give out a couple of trophies for packaging of coins.

#1: Winner of the Global Warming Special Trophy
To touch any one Peace Dollar in this photo you would have had to open 4 packages! This is the first time I've received a coin with packing peanuts.



#2: Winner of the I Sell Coins Out Of My Mother's Basement Trophy
I wish he'd of used as much care operating the band-saw he used to cut the card stock as he used to carefully affix 4 strips of scotch tape to hold the coin in place. I was charged $3 for shipping on this coin.



Maybe I can get these two guys to meet somewhere in the middle?

 

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{ran to bathroom to not pee self laughing}

 

I utterly hate packing peanuts..........

 

I got a coin taped like that from a seller once. And it was BU not circulated, which really irritated me. I wish I saved the sellers reply to my complaint about it. It was this hilarious garbled broken English response of him apologizing, saying he was on vacation and a few other comments which to my best recollection had no actual grammtical foundation or syntax.

 

packing peanuts. aka ghost poo.

 

When I send silver dollars, they go in a flip, the flip is wrapped in bubble wrap, and I put it in a 6"x4" bubble mailer. Works perfectly, coins are pretty easy to get, and sent safely.

 

Most I receive are packaged on some variation of what you describe.

 

There's 702 of you rodents?

 

Why not duct tape? It is more secure than regular tape and will keep the dreaded sunlight off of the coin???

 

How about when they enclose each coin in a little bit of something and then wrap like half a roll of packing tape tightly around it? How is one supposed to open that without damaging the coin?

Of course on the other side is when the coin is in one of those little plastic bags and they just tape it to a piece of paper at the top and put it in an envelope, and then during shipping the coin works its way out of there, creates a hole in the side of the envelope, and is long gone by the time the empty envelope reaches you. I've had that two or three times as well.

 

I don't have any tape in the house.

I'll just epoxy each coin to some cardboard. Then use some epoxy over the surface to protect it some more. Then put it in an envelope.

at least that's my plan. I haven't sold any coins yet.

 

I just don't get it. Those fine folks in Battle Creek, Michigan were able to send us coins in the mail all through my childhood and we somehow lost the art?

 

Kellogg's ?

 

Uh huh, and they subcontracted for other companies, too.

 

The 1961 quarter in my Dansco TODAY is a Kellogg's quarter I got in, umm, err, 1961, through the mail for boxtops. Postage was still 3c.



It's so "Opie Taylor" I could just spit.