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Prevents mold (toning) and prevents theft (safe keeping).
This topic came up in our local coin club and at first I scoffed at the idea.
It has lately grown on me.
Good idea or naw?
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Should I put my washing machine and dryer coins in the refrigerator?
Dryer coins: YES.
Washing Machine coins: a resounding NO.
Also, 52,000 children swallow coins every year so please be careful what you do wrap your coins in.
I have heard of people doing this, especially people who have a chest-style freezer in their garage. I have heard of persons with gold coins going so far as to put the coins in an ice cube tray or some plastic container, adding water, and freezing the container with water. I have not done this myself.
There was some Congressperson who got caught a few years back with $90,000 in cash in his chest-style freezer. Illicitly obtained cash. Pretty certain he is now a former Congressperson.
My concern is condensation when you take them out in room temperature.
Cold cash!
Unfortunately, many police officers will tell you that the freezer is the first place crooks look. I'm surprised I am the first to add this. The best way to protect your stuff is the bank. Next a large anchored professional safe. " Hidden" wall safes are really not hidden as all the pictures will be taken down.
The best way to protect your stuff is to live in a "hoarders" house. But who wants to do that?
Or live like Howard Hughes, like a hermit and have Mormons cater to your every needs.
Actually, some hoarders have spouses and friends. Just be sure to hide stuff all over and not in one place.
I defy a crook to even walk through a maximized hoard much less find anything of value.
When I go on vacation I hide coins all over the house. Put the crap in the safe. Problem is that when I get home I forget where I put it all. I was out in the garage looking for a can of shellac, found it, pulled it down off the shelf and low and behold behind the can was a roll of silver quarters, a roll of silver dimes and a dozen Morgans in slabs. Forgot I put them there and really do not even remember when I did that.
It's like Easter around here when I go searching for something.....never know what I might find.
Great to be old.
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When I hide something, I forget where I put it within the hour. I'm going thru some storage boxes today after two years and it's like Christmas in June around here! So much stuff, so little time.
So there was an urban legend that golfer Ben Hogan buried all his dough in his yard in jars and cans. When he died, his yard was all dug up. Peace Roy
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I can just see my wife serving me up a nice big plate of steamed PCGS slabs with a couple of NGC thrown in for garnish. "Hey honey - come eat - I made dreck for dinner!!!"
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I have a friend in Germany who grew up near the Rommel family home. The urban myth there was that when fieldmarshall Erwin Rommel was implicated in a plot against Hitler and dragged away to be forced to commit suicide, his son buried his pistol in the garden. For years afterward the neighborhood children (including my friend) dug around in the Rommel garden looking for the pistol.
I'm not saying it "never" happens but I spent 29 years in law enforcement and never had or heard of this happening.
But I still wouldn't put my coins in the fridge or freezer.
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Putting coins behind the freezer might be a better idea . . .
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My in-laws would stash the cash receipts from their store in the washer at home under a pile of dirty cloths until they could make a trip to the bank.
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I guess that's one way to get frosty luster on your coins.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Stability is probably more important than a particular temperature. Humidity in refrigerators and freezers can be pretty high. Swings in temperatures (opening & closing the door, power outages) will cause condensation which can be horrible for silver and especially copper.
What if the coins are kept inside of a heated (slightly, of course) box that is contained within the fridge so as to offset any humidity issues?
I should have known better than to comment here.
Would be foolish to put your coins anywhere that moisture would happen when temperatures would fluctuate rapidly. Hiding stuff could lead to forgetting about it. Think about the saddle ridge hoard. I agree the bank is the best place.
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Banks are regrigerated (air conditioned). Same ding.
I had a neighbor evaluate their coin collection. They pulled out an assortment of aluminum foil wrapped coins from their freezer. We opened them and they were all bicentennial halves and quarters.
I valued them at face.
I love this guy...
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose?
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Air conditioning serves as a dehumidifier, not the same ding as a refrigerator or freexer.
So I challenge everyone to ask a cop where the best place to hid valuables is. I am thinking “refrigerator” won’t make the top 5.
Banks are great. Until you can’t get in them.
I've always felt having some decoy valuables might help. If they find those first they might take them and run.
Well store your food at the bank and keep your coins in the fridge. Cept in tha winner you hafta flip tha script or you gone have cold coins and warm milk. Outty
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A good safe.
Aside from that, I personally handled two burglaries where the residents kept their valuables in a garbage container under the trash bag liner and they were not found by the burglars. One in the kitchen garbage can and another in a small bedroom waste basket. In both cases the houses were totally ransacked.
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Safe is a good ideal yet difficult to place in a refrigerator.
A safe is shaped like a refrigerator.
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Perhaps we just need a safe that looks like a refrigerator. Only a hungry thief would open it...
Humidity is directly proportional to temperature. The humidity in refrigerators and freezers is always very LOW. The appearance of condensation is from, as you indicate, high humidity air from OUTSIDE the refrigerator entering when you open or close it. Coins in a plastic bag or box will feel none of this.
Wrap them in broccoli should prevent that.
I'm not in law enforcement but I think if a person thinks what a crook might do they can get a little "jump" when protecting their valuables at home. In fact, as I'm typing this I thought of a pull-out medicine cabinet safe sealed of course from the moisture in a bathroom.
I believe that the key element in a burglary is TIME. I also believe I could find anything you could hide in a room If I had enough time. An old girlfriend thought this was nuts! She told me she would hide a ring in the bedroom and I'd never find it. She said it was not in the bed or drawers and she did not put it among her clothes, shoes, or purses in the closet. After about thirty minutes I stopped looking and started some serious thinking. I had already checked the easy stuff like attached to the back of furniture or under it. I had even unscrewed the light bulbs looking! Bingo! She had unscrewed the plate on the light socket and had the ring on a string.
You should have seen the joy on her face when I went into the kitchen to confess that I had given up. A wise gentleman would have stopped there but I suggested we play hot-or-cold after dinner to help me find it. I took my sweet time inching closer to the socket in a back and forth search. Finally approaching the wall switch I asked if it was there. Then I handed her the ring. It was a little chilly in the house that night.
You know its bad when the serving of meat that night is hot tongue and cold shoulder.
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Some funny comments here. Seriously though, good security consists of layers. It starts with the perimeter of your home - i.e. doors, windows, lighting, even landscaping. Then alarm systems, then internal measures such as safes. Really, just hiding things from thieves will usually end in loss. Good security measures are important and I prefer to have my possessions at home. Cheers, RickO
I used to play a prank on our cashiers/customers. I put a few rolls of coins in the walk-in freezer for a couple hours. Then when they needed change, I cracked out a frozen roll into their drawer. The cashiers wondered why they were so cold but the funny part was watching the faces of customers as they dropped their change into their pants pockets!!!!
Refrigerator/Freezer storage? Absolutely not. Especially if the fridge is running. Moisture and mold....coin evils. I've even had moisture problems in a safe. I'm sure we've had this discussion before at length in another post. Just put in STORAGE in the inquiry box.