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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeepfreak81, post: 24859518, member: 93888&quot;]I greatly respect your position and opinion on this however, I offer a rebuttal. Being a bit of a gearhead I can offer up another analogy here.&nbsp; If I had a fully restored numbers matching 1969 Ford Mustang that would fetch easily 6 digits at Barrett-Jackson I surely would have a spotless, fully insulated, climate controlled garage with CCTV and an alarm system. However, if instead I was driving around a Yugo I might not even bother to roll the windows up when it rains. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My point being, I&#039;m not putting high end coins in here.&nbsp; Heck I don&#039;t even own any, my 1oz Brittania&#039;s are probably the most expensive thing I have and they were only $30.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, by following the notion that all wood, liners, glue, paint, humidity, etc etc etc is &quot;harmful&quot; to coins, then the only suitable way to store coins is in a vacuum.&nbsp; Coins are going to be subjected to things that may or may not cause toning (desirable or undesirable).&nbsp; So then we must chose how much risk we are willing to take and how well we can mitigate that risk.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t feel my safe is much better of an environment to store coins in than this project will be.&nbsp; It is more secure for sure, but again that&#039;s why I keep my silver bullion and a few other nicer things in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>It sucks alot of the fun out of collecting coins if you treat everything like it&#039;s the dead sea scrolls.&nbsp; Like anything, you have to adjust your approach based on the individual situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just my view on it.&nbsp; Also this will be a fun experiment, I&#039;m willing to sacrifice 1 gram silver bars to see if they start to tone/tarnish and it&#039;ll be my &quot;canary&quot; warning me that I should move out my nicer stuff that I may have in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly - I hear many wives tales such as &quot;everything has been tried, nothing works&quot; except I&#039;ve seen no 1st hand experience or actual examples.&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong, I KNOW there are many things here that are well documented as causing issues.&nbsp; Raw coins sliding on wool felt for example, or coins stored resulted in toning over time (sometimes very desirable, sometimes not).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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