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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2821050, member: 112&quot;]Well, personally I always figured that if a coin was worthy of being in my collection at all then it was worthy of me storing it correctly. And how did I define storing it correctly ? At the least, it was placing each coin in its own Air-Tite brand coin holder. Which when I was still collecting you could buy just about any size there was for 50 cents apiece, or less. And then I would place those Air-Tites in an Intercept Shield slab box and store them in a safe with nothing but inert materials inside, and silica gel packs to control humidity. </p><p><br /></p><p>All told it might have cost me 75 cents a coin to store them correctly. Now is that too much ? I guess that depends on how you look at it. That was a 1 time cost, so the coins were protected as best I could protect them for life - for 75 cents. As for the coins themselves, the cheapest ones I owned cost me just over a $1 each. But others were thousands.</p><p><br /></p><p>Short and sweet I did everything I could to remove chance, risk, from the equation as much as possible. I wanted my coins to stay just they way there were when I bought them. After all I bought them because I liked as they were when I bought them. And if they changed over time, possibly drastically, I knew I might not like them anymore. And what would be the point of owning coins you don&#039;t like and no longer want in your collection ? Let alone the fact that unwanted change could also lower the value, possibly a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>And when you consider that - how much is too much ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course another way of looking at it this. If when you bought a specific coin, if it had cost you 75 cents more than what you paid - would you have still bought it ? If you answer yes to that question then you have also answered if it is worth it or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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