Advice on storing coins

[Guest dodo1]

Hi

I would appreciate any advice from coin collectors please. My daughter has recently been left some coins in a Will. She is very young and I would like to keep the coins until she is old enough to decide whether or not to carry on collecting the coins or whether she would wish to sell them, however I am not sure if I need to buy anything to store the coins in. Some of them are in plastic pots and are american dollars which are new and some of them are loose and a bit older, such as Winston Churchill and the Queens Wedding Anniversary collections from the 60's and 70's. Do they need to be stored in plastic containers as well or can they just be left loose in the box they came in? I don't want to go to the expense of buying storage if it is not worth it. Alternatively I don't want to leave them loose in case it damages them! I have also heard that they should not be touched so if anyone can help at all I would really appreciate it. I would probably have to keep them for about 10 years until she is old enough to decide what she wants to do.

Many thanks

[Peckris]

Hi

I would appreciate any advice from coin collectors please. My daughter has recently been left some coins in a Will. She is very young and I would like to keep the coins until she is old enough to decide whether or not to carry on collecting the coins or whether she would wish to sell them, however I am not sure if I need to buy anything to store the coins in. Some of them are in plastic pots and are american dollars which are new and some of them are loose and a bit older, such as Winston Churchill and the Queens Wedding Anniversary collections from the 60's and 70's. Do they need to be stored in plastic containers as well or can they just be left loose in the box they came in? I don't want to go to the expense of buying storage if it is not worth it. Alternatively I don't want to leave them loose in case it damages them! I have also heard that they should not be touched so if anyone can help at all I would really appreciate it. I would probably have to keep them for about 10 years until she is old enough to decide what she wants to do.

Many thanks

For what you've described, storage doesn't need any expensive solutions. Transparent coin envelopes (you can probably buy some from this site?) would meet your requirements. In the long term, if some of the coins are bronze, then they perhaps should be stored in paper envelopes.

If you need more advice about the value and / or identification of your coins, then people here would be happy to advise, and you should certainly make up a list anyway.

If you live somewhere in a dry salt-free environment, then they could even be left in the boxes, but your daughter could scratch them quite badly if she took to shaking the boxes! Individual envelopes would prevent that.