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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 Hoarding Member
USA
547 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
Administrator
USA
1937 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
191 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 Collector Member
USA
404 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
Administrator
USA
2856 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 Hoarding Member
811 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 19:42:34
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| Wheats go in Mason jars. To be rolled eventually... |
So long, Realcent 1. Come visit us at Realcent.org! |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 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
53 Posts |
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 Hoarding Member
USA
547 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 Hoarding Member
USA
508 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
3890 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 20:19:50
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I use several of these, or ones that look like these: You must be logged in to see this link.
Works perfect.
Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1304 Posts |
Posted - 10/14/2009 : 21:25:35
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quote:
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
1664 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
3890 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 |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams |
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2old
Penny Pincher Member
188 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
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1720 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2009 : 18:28:27
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| Is there anything wrong with putting them in plastic baggies? |
SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 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.
You must be logged in to see this link.
Enjoy. |
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jtm3
Penny Pincher Member
USA
187 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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Stop Making Cents
Penny Sorter Member
53 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.
You must be logged in to see this link.
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
693 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
58 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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