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Stop Making Cents
Penny Sorter Member
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 Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:15:31
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I have stacks and stacks of pennies i've saved as collectibles on my table and I'm a little overwhelmed with what to do with them. I've been putting them in plastic baggies, but i'm thinking about getting a book for the wheats. I am wondering if the plastic will corrode them.
Also am curious what other ways people are storing their collectible ones, or if they are trading them in for the cash.
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El Dee
Penny Collector Member
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:29:06
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Use coffee cans!
I used to use those little metal cabinets with plastic drawers, like for screws and bolts.
PVC plastic is a no-no. I don't know what kind baggies are made of. |
Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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AGgressive Metal
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
789 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:33:39
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| Also those large-sized Campbell's soup cans and other steel cans like for pinapple juice (though make sure you rinse thoroughly since fruit juice is acidic). |
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel / For nothyng is better than lyberte / For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world.
-Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables, 1484
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sheba
Penny Pincher Member
USA
116 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:35:19
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Starting a wheat penny collection is IMVHO a great idea. In fact, what about going all the way - 1909 to 2009 and beyond, in a really nice commercial Lincoln Penny books?
I use white cardboard flips to store pennies that I think might eventually have a bit more value than common wheats, memorials or zincolns.
Be sure and check your wheats for semi key and key dates. There are some 'good ones' out there! 
sheba |
woof ... wag ... whine |
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Mcprice302
Penny Pincher Member
USA
187 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:35:44
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I just roll the wheats and label them. The few coins I have that I would worry about scratching are wrapped in tissue and placed into a crown royal bag until I have enough to warrant shipping to have them graded.
May I ask what is wrong with PVC? Seems ideal if you wanted to bury some bullion. It would be air and water tight if done properly, or am I missing something else? |
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fb101
Moderator
USA
2241 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:36:57
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| I have a whitman book set incomplete and I roll the rest by decade for wheats and datemint for most others. Oddities go in tubes. |
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Corsair
Penny Collector Member
485 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:42:34
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| Wheats go in Mason jars. To be rolled eventually... |
Am I a good person doing bad things? Or a bad person doing good things? |
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dakota1955
Penny Hoarding Member
801 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:47:42
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| The wheaties (40-58) are in a can and the rest are in groups by their decades. and s-mint I keep in their one can |
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Stop Making Cents
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:50:34
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| I'm just afraid they'll get all scratched up in jars (and in my baggies) |
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El Dee
Penny Collector Member
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:50:56
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Clear plastic PVC coin holders eventually degrade and this oily substance forms on the surface. Any coin touching the stuff gets corroded. The collector community has a category for PVC damaged coins.
Ir you are talking about PVC pipe, that might be a different animal. |
Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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ScottyTX
Penny Collector Member
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 20:12:57
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| For Bu coins and rolls I store them in Military Ammo boxes with sillica desiccant. The ammo boxes have a nice rubber seal on them to prevent moisture from coming in and any moisture in the air is absorbed by the desiccant. This works great for long term storage of MS/BU coins or for preserving any coinage. The open air will make those nice red cents turn colors over time, eventually turning brown. They used to make nice coin supplies years ago out of PVC until they realized what El Dee is talking about. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1051 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 21:25:35
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Originally posted by fb101
I have a whitman book set incomplete and I roll the rest by decade for wheats and datemint for most others. Oddities go in tubes.
Pretty much this!! |
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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1305 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 21:54:51
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| mine are just in a box with the other cool coins |
Inquiring minds want to know |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3251 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2009 : 06:18:26
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I forgot to add, I use several coin albums as well. Only two holes left in my good one....
Deal |
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.
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2old
Penny Pincher Member
136 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2009 : 09:08:57
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| I like coffee cans, but I have started putting some AU-BU/RD pennies in Brinks boxes and vacuum sealing it. I am doing the same with several boxes of the new Lincoln cents. I have some BU copper rolls that I will just vacuum seal in their wrappers. |
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PennySaved
Penny Collector Member
361 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2009 : 18:28:27
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| Is there anything wrong with putting them in plastic baggies? |
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PreservingThePast
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
697 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2009 : 19:31:28
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quote:
Originally posted by PennySaved
Is there anything wrong with putting them in plastic baggies?
Perhaps this article with be of help to you.
http://www.thecoinalley.com/coinstorage.html
Enjoy. |
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jtm3
Penny Collector Member
USA
401 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2009 : 21:10:50
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| I put mine in plastic 50 cent tubes or plastic cigar tubes. |
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Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
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Stop Making Cents
Penny Sorter Member
43 Posts |
Posted - 10/18/2009 : 17:17:33
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quote:
Originally posted by PreservingThePast
quote:
Originally posted by PennySaved
Is there anything wrong with putting them in plastic baggies?
Perhaps this article with be of help to you.
http://www.thecoinalley.com/coinstorage.html
Enjoy.
Thank you for the info Pennysaved.
Another concern about storing the keepers is how to keep the red pennies red. The guy at the local coin shop claimed the plastic pages you put in a binder were just fine, but I have my doubts. |
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jonflyfish
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
551 Posts |
Posted - 10/18/2009 : 18:56:26
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| I just fill up gallon sized heavy duty zip lock bags then stack them in storage. |
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; second is war. Both bring a temporary (and false) prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunities. |
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JP_007
Penny Sorter Member
USA
54 Posts |
Posted - 10/21/2009 : 06:05:14
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| Dansco, whitmans and the medicine bottles you get from the pharmacy work great too because they are designed to keep out light and other things that would damage the prescription and consequently my coins! |
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How do you store your Wheats / Collectible Pennies
