Best safest way to store a complete set???
haletj
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I'm working on a complete set of uncirculated Lincoln Cents, 1909-2003. I love the look of an album but that is obviously a bad idea for such expensive coins. How about capital plastics set holders? Are they 100% safe? The Lincoln Cent Set holder they sell though has proof only's etc. and I don't want them (I have them in original proof sets). I could buy a bunch of the 25 coin galaxy holders, but are they as safe as the regular screw together plastics? What about a few custom made holders? Would that cost a fortune (which may be worth it for safety)?
How about eagle coin holders and albums, The albums hold 20 coins a page so 13 pages isn't too unreasonable. Are the eagle coin holders 100% safe. Can you arrange the album as you'd like, as to not have my unwanted coins like 22 no d or proofs? Their holders glue together with some type of cement, is that safe? Any other problems or info about their holders? I think a 13 page album with holders would be quite expensive too.
Any other suggestions? Thanks everyone!
How about eagle coin holders and albums, The albums hold 20 coins a page so 13 pages isn't too unreasonable. Are the eagle coin holders 100% safe. Can you arrange the album as you'd like, as to not have my unwanted coins like 22 no d or proofs? Their holders glue together with some type of cement, is that safe? Any other problems or info about their holders? I think a 13 page album with holders would be quite expensive too.
Any other suggestions? Thanks everyone!
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Slab them at PCGS or NGC and put the slabs in a binder
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Jim O'Donnell had a cool set of seated quarters several years back that he bought in an album (and took the album around to shows to sell 'em off). It must have been an old time set, because nobody would do that nowadays. I did buy a couple old Whitman folders for seated quarters on ebay (yes, such things do exist), but I only store coins of very low value in them.
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This is an ancient thread that I brought TTT because it's on-topic for a discussion I would like to present at our coin club, perhaps early next year. We have many beginner collectors and sometimes their coins are stored in, shall we say, dubious ways... as in plastic baggies, cigar boxes, etc.
Any advice from today's forum members that I can add to the discussion?
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When a post is 22 years old--especially when it only has a few replies--I think you're safe to just start a new thread
2.5" flips fit in the slots of PCGS boxes, and those are very easy to get.
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It really depends on what it is. There are "hoards" of miscellaneous items that probably should be stored in a cigar box because they aren't worth the cost of fancier digs.
Some things are fine in an album.
Some things are fine in 2x2's either on pages or double row boxes.
Slabs are fine in pages or boxes.
I've seen collections where the storage materials were worth more than the coins. I've also seen 5 figure collections that were loose in a variety of cigar boxes and freezer bags.
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I use the Coin World Premier holders for my raw coins. Almost my entire collection is in slabs and I keep them in 9 to a page Eagle brand pages and albums. Amos Advantage offers the Premier holders. They are almost identical to the size of NGC and PCGS slabs. If I remember right they come 5 or 6 to a box. James
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If they were my coins I would have them slabbed.
Many mid 20th century collectors used Capital Plastics holders, many having custom holders created as well. Special coins could be placed in wax paper and placed in a flip. I see collections very well preserved via these methods.
I personally would choose a Capital Plastics holder for high grade raw coins, including red copper.
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Which is fine, because I replied 22 years ago
As far as storing low value stuff, I would consider plastic ziploc bags as far superior to cigar boxes. They are inert and at least somewhat protective. For a box, something plastic ought to be much better than something made of paper/cardboard, which might have sulfur or other outgassing. Personally, I have some low value stuff (in my case, bags of copper, nickel, silver, and aluminum coins) each in a ziploc bag to organize them, then this is all in a plastic food container. Anything of significant value gets more careful treatment, but for me that works great for the cheap stuff that it is fun to have piles of.
I notice that you were the first to reply here, both 22 years ago, and just now
I don't mind resurrecting old threads when the discussion is still on topic, the original discussion is often well worth reading. Starting with that first reply, though I am glad that Russell12 commented since I did not realize the Intercept albums are not made anymore. (I mainly collect currency so I'm not picky about my coin storage in most cases.)
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That picture was right after I put the “time capsules” together. After a day or so the relative humidity inside the jars equilibrates to less that 20%. The analog hygrometer ones are better, because they work forever whereas the digital ones stop working after about a year or so because the batteries don’t last. Somewhere I have the “old school” info from the best book ever on the topic. I took pictures of the pertinent pages. The author wouldn’t like that I have paper in there with the coin rolls, he recommended having no paper or anything that could react with 5he metals, so he is/was more strict than me.
The same author recommended spraying albums with polyeurothane for expensive coins, I’m actually going to house some of my wife’s family heirloom coin collection from the 1800s in a Vintage “Made for Stacks” Calfskin Album with Wayte Raymond Type set pages that were sprayed with Polyeurothane. But modern albums made with archival materials can work just fine, especially if you put them in either Tupperware or large ziplock freezer bags with desiccant. That’s important if you live somewhere with high humidity and you don’t want the coins to end up with terminal toning and/or if they are expensive ones. As for intercept albums, they do work good, but after 20 years the coins start to tone in them so not a permanent solution.
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Here’s the book and pages, sorry for them being out of order, I might fix them later, but you can just go by the page number and read them in the right order.
Mr_Spud
Here’s what Intercept albums start to do to coins after they are about 20 years old, but until then the coins stayed blast white
For Slabs, I use these intercept slab holders and boxes, but I put the boxes inside ziplock freezer bags with a desiccant cartridge inside the bag on top of the box
They are great because they fit in my safety deposit box in the bank. But I had to replace the intercept boxes after about 20 years too, the outside of the boxes and slab covers turned yellow and the inner lining of the boxes and slab covers turned black. But they do work, just gotta replace them after 20 years.
Mr_Spud
Those analog hygrometer jars are awesome! My only argument with the book excerpt you posted, is that I would never trust lids that had been used for food before. I can never get them to lose their smell. It is easy now to find well sealed new and unused jars to store anything good.
That makes sense, you wouldn’t want to use anything that smelled like onions or garlic for sure. But if you can find the analog hygrometer lids, you can use any glass jar and not even have that worry. They sell the hygrometer lids for use as humidor lids for weed and cigars. For some reason the digital ones are always available but the analog ones are always out of stock at the places that sell these. I got mine off of Amazon.
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No matter what they were?
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FYI- just for fun I looked over at https://hylids.com/ and they have the analog lids in stock right now. I just ordered a pack of 6. These don’t stay in stock long, only digital is available on Amazon right now, so if anybody is interested I recommend jumping on them. So much better than silly battery operated digital ones if you are making time capsules to preserve your coins that will last for decades if not longer 🌞
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The difference is that the first time I replied, I was 16 years old. Now I've been working in the real world for 16 years. And somewhere in between I finished high school and went to college.
I would shift to collecting brown and/red-brown unc Lincolns rather than red coins if you plan to not slab them. I recently uncovered a 1934-1958 red BU wheat cent cent in a Dansco album set that I completed in the mid-1970s and most early coins turned red-brown.