Roll storage of coins... Safe?
nwcoast
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Just wondering if the rims on Morgan and Peace dollars are high enough to prevent abrasions to the devices of the coin design during long term storage and associated transit...
For the most part they're not being jostled around but between the safe deposit box and the occasional field trip out one can make out a bit of rattle in those plastic tubes..
Might be a stupid question... Please forgive me if it is.
What do ya think experts?
Thank you in advance...
For the most part they're not being jostled around but between the safe deposit box and the occasional field trip out one can make out a bit of rattle in those plastic tubes..
Might be a stupid question... Please forgive me if it is.
What do ya think experts?
Thank you in advance...
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If they have any numismatic value above melt whatsoever I'd get them into flips. You can buy hundreds of them for less than the damage to a single now-ungradable coin. Stack the flips in boxes and they'll take up a bit more room than tubes, but it's really the only way I'd go. Besides that, it's easier to see and enjoy them that way. Higher-quality generic dollar albums with protective covers are also OK, but be careful to avoid friction from sliding the covers in and out too much.
I'd guess many of our MS60-62 Peace Dollars left their mint bags in much better shape than they are in now simply due to repeated stacking, rolling, curious looking, are careless handling.
...whenever i read of someone selling rolls of proof coins, i REALLY get nervous! hard to imagine the proof coins not sustaining some kind of damage.