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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 8171841, member: 112"]Please read my comments about proper storage in post #9 in this thread - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-some-coin-crud-education-green-stuff.392053/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-some-coin-crud-education-green-stuff.392053/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-some-coin-crud-education-green-stuff.392053/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>So what are proper storage methods ? Well they've been written about and explained on this forum more times that I can even count. So simply do a search for them and read what you find. But here's the thing about proper storage methods - it seems a whole lot of people don't want to bother with them. They consider them to be too much trouble or too expensive. In other words they like doing things just the way they've always done them. But proper storage methods exist and it's not really difficult to utilize them, but for them to work, that's what ya gotta do - utilize them. And if you don't, then you, or rather your coins, very well may suffer the consequences.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>That said, paper clips - bad idea. 2x2s and or 2x2 boxes - bad idea. Gun safe - bad idea. Coin tubes - bad idea. Coin flips - bad idea. Individual hard plastic capsules - good idea, but they still need to be stored properly. And that isn't in a gun safe ! Please see the paragraph above.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll end with asking a simple question - if any coin is worthy of being in your collection, and by worthy I mean you like it enough to want to keep it, is that coin not worth 50 cents for you to be able to store it properly and protect it to the best of your ability ? Or if you prefer I can put it another way. And coin that you have ever purchased, if it had cost you 50 cents more that whatever you paid for it - would you still have bought it ?</p><p><br /></p><p>If the answer to either question is - yes - then that's what you should do, spend that 50 cents. Because that's all it will cost to buy individual hard plastic coin holders for each coin. And then store them properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>And no. I'm not trying to pick on anybody or make anybody feel bad. I'm just trying to explain what I consider to be simple common sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 8171841, member: 112"]Please read my comments about proper storage in post #9 in this thread - [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/need-some-coin-crud-education-green-stuff.392053/[/URL] [I]So what are proper storage methods ? Well they've been written about and explained on this forum more times that I can even count. So simply do a search for them and read what you find. But here's the thing about proper storage methods - it seems a whole lot of people don't want to bother with them. They consider them to be too much trouble or too expensive. In other words they like doing things just the way they've always done them. But proper storage methods exist and it's not really difficult to utilize them, but for them to work, that's what ya gotta do - utilize them. And if you don't, then you, or rather your coins, very well may suffer the consequences.[/I] That said, paper clips - bad idea. 2x2s and or 2x2 boxes - bad idea. Gun safe - bad idea. Coin tubes - bad idea. Coin flips - bad idea. Individual hard plastic capsules - good idea, but they still need to be stored properly. And that isn't in a gun safe ! Please see the paragraph above. I'll end with asking a simple question - if any coin is worthy of being in your collection, and by worthy I mean you like it enough to want to keep it, is that coin not worth 50 cents for you to be able to store it properly and protect it to the best of your ability ? Or if you prefer I can put it another way. And coin that you have ever purchased, if it had cost you 50 cents more that whatever you paid for it - would you still have bought it ? If the answer to either question is - yes - then that's what you should do, spend that 50 cents. Because that's all it will cost to buy individual hard plastic coin holders for each coin. And then store them properly. And no. I'm not trying to pick on anybody or make anybody feel bad. I'm just trying to explain what I consider to be simple common sense.[/QUOTE]
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