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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7794205, member: 112"]Ricardo, I was a collector of mint products in original mint packaging for 40 years, before I quit collecting US coins. Back in the beginning I didn't know what I know now, of course, hardly anybody else did either. Nobody gave any thought at all to the packaging being a problem, being harmful to the coins. But, they were always asking things like - why are my coins doing this ?, why is this going on ? I don't like all this toning how do I stop it ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, the simple fact of the matter is mint packaging IS harmful to coins. All that cardboard and paper, it's laced with sulfur and other harmful chemicals like inks and color agents. And those things cause toning, sometimes very ugly toning. </p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves you with 2 choices, you can leave everything in the original packaging and store it as you please; or you can remove the coins from the original packaging and place them in inert hard plastic coin holders and then store them properly. </p><p><br /></p><p>And, original packaging includes the hard plastic holders the mint uses for the annual sets - yes, the coins need to be removed from those too. The round hard plastic holders the mint uses for individual coins, (the clear ones), those are fine. But the coins have to be taken out of the boxes they are shipped in, including the velvet boxes. </p><p><br /></p><p>The idea is to not have anything except inert materials stored anywhere near your coins ! </p><p><br /></p><p>What you want to know is how to organize everything once you remove them from them from all the original packaging. You have a few variable choices, but only a few. There are a few companies who make albums out of inert materials that will hold the Air-Tite type holders, or the slab type holders. And those are about the only choices there are if you wish practical organization for the Air-Tite type holders. If you use the slab type holders, there are slab boxes made of inert materials that the slabs can kept in. And then proper storage methods are required for any/all of those choices.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's about it, there simply isn't anything else. Assuming of course that you wish to minimize toning/corrosion as much as possible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 7794205, member: 112"]Ricardo, I was a collector of mint products in original mint packaging for 40 years, before I quit collecting US coins. Back in the beginning I didn't know what I know now, of course, hardly anybody else did either. Nobody gave any thought at all to the packaging being a problem, being harmful to the coins. But, they were always asking things like - why are my coins doing this ?, why is this going on ? I don't like all this toning how do I stop it ? Well, the simple fact of the matter is mint packaging IS harmful to coins. All that cardboard and paper, it's laced with sulfur and other harmful chemicals like inks and color agents. And those things cause toning, sometimes very ugly toning. That leaves you with 2 choices, you can leave everything in the original packaging and store it as you please; or you can remove the coins from the original packaging and place them in inert hard plastic coin holders and then store them properly. And, original packaging includes the hard plastic holders the mint uses for the annual sets - yes, the coins need to be removed from those too. The round hard plastic holders the mint uses for individual coins, (the clear ones), those are fine. But the coins have to be taken out of the boxes they are shipped in, including the velvet boxes. The idea is to not have anything except inert materials stored anywhere near your coins ! What you want to know is how to organize everything once you remove them from them from all the original packaging. You have a few variable choices, but only a few. There are a few companies who make albums out of inert materials that will hold the Air-Tite type holders, or the slab type holders. And those are about the only choices there are if you wish practical organization for the Air-Tite type holders. If you use the slab type holders, there are slab boxes made of inert materials that the slabs can kept in. And then proper storage methods are required for any/all of those choices. That's about it, there simply isn't anything else. Assuming of course that you wish to minimize toning/corrosion as much as possible.[/QUOTE]
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