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<p>[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 255333, member: 6370"]HEre is a quote i found...in it might be good advice. Seems the problem with felt is that the coin might slide when drawer is open? It seems mohagany is without doubt the prefered wood.</p><p> </p><p><i>Wooden Coin Cabinets: Traditional and attractive but not recommended as the wood is inherently acidic. the flocked or velvet lining of these cases is also problematic and coins can move around when the drawers are opened and closed. Enamelled metal cabinets are recommended as a safe alternative to wooden ones. Wooden cabinets can be made more safe by painting them with an acrylic latex and lining the drawers with an acid-free barrier.</i></p><p> </p><p>just an idea but maybe you could get mohagany... buy some air tites that fit each coin, then make nitches in the wood in which you can permenantly insert the airtites into the nitches, hold them there maybe with some adhesive to make sure the dont fall out? or maybe even make the nitches deep enough to use velcro so they can be removed? just idears.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 255333, member: 6370"]HEre is a quote i found...in it might be good advice. Seems the problem with felt is that the coin might slide when drawer is open? It seems mohagany is without doubt the prefered wood. [I]Wooden Coin Cabinets: Traditional and attractive but not recommended as the wood is inherently acidic. the flocked or velvet lining of these cases is also problematic and coins can move around when the drawers are opened and closed. Enamelled metal cabinets are recommended as a safe alternative to wooden ones. Wooden cabinets can be made more safe by painting them with an acrylic latex and lining the drawers with an acid-free barrier.[/I] just an idea but maybe you could get mohagany... buy some air tites that fit each coin, then make nitches in the wood in which you can permenantly insert the airtites into the nitches, hold them there maybe with some adhesive to make sure the dont fall out? or maybe even make the nitches deep enough to use velcro so they can be removed? just idears.[/QUOTE]
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