Plastic Coin Tube

These are for storing coins & have a locking lid or screw top lid. Also great for storing beads!

Joann Fabric has a great selection. They're actually back in the bead isle.

2007-10-23 23:05:09 by mkt

This is a project I made for my kid -- a gravity-based coin sorter. The basic structure is made of cardboard, and put together using a glue gun ...

I am saving state quarters for my daughter. I have noticed that some of the quarters are getting a bronze look to them. I don't know if it is the entire roll or simply the ones on the end. I have placed the coins in the squared plastic tubes and then in old army "ammo boxes". I desire her being able to take them out in 20 to 30 years in brilliant uncirculated condition. What is the best way to store them?

You can keep the coins in the plastic coin tubes for they are inert. The paper used to wrap coins is not. The ammo box has to go. There is residue of oils and other chemicals there and no washing the box out will not do. Coins have rims on them so they will stack and that is the part that touches the coin under it. Just be careful when you take them out of the tube, let them slide or fall onto a soft cloth and don't let them hit each other.When putting coins in the tube just take it slow and easy. It is not that hard to do. The coins at the end of the bank wrappers are toning, due to the box and also just to the air hitting them, the rims in side will too, for the bank roll paper has chemicals in them. Put all rolls in to plastic tube and store in a plastic box made of a hard plastic with a lid, not a soft plastic. The item in plastic that makes it soft and pliable will damage coins. Try to store the coins where the temperature varies the least. If you live in a place that has high humidity, get some silica gel and put it with the rolls. Take out the packs every month or so put in a low heated oven to dry them out and put back into the plastic box. You can get the silica gel from a coin dealer, or almost every piece of electronics comes with a small packet or at least used too.

2007-02-07 10:09:33 by inquisitive tobaccoman

If you buy them in bulk from the mint, what do they come in?

2006 American Buffalo Gold Proof One Ounce Coin

Gold buffalo $800.00 coin?
Individual in a case with letter of authenticity.
each coin enclosed in hard round plastic and place in a blue case.. very nice and very beautifully....

The American Buffalo Gold Proof Coins are collector versions of the official United States Mint American Buffalo Gold Bullion Coins and are available in limited mintages. The designs are based on the original 1913, Type I Buffalo nickel, as designed by James Earle Fraser.

very very sharp proof coin..
This coin is going to be a winner 20 years from now in the market place among collectors..

us mint link and picture

http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/sto res/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=100 01&storeId=10001&productId=13730 &langId=-1&parent_category_rn=14 239

2007-02-26 20:37:31 by marketinsider

If you buy them in bulk from the mint, what do they come in?

At first glance, they appear to be sold individually in presentation packets:
http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/sto res/servlet/CategoryDisplay?langId=-1&am p;storeId=10001&catalogId=10001& identifier=0500

2007-02-26 20:36:14 by marketinsider

Basically its 5 tubes all different sizes that hold a £1 coin 50p 20p 10p 5p, they have ameasure thing so u can see how much u have saved,

These were around in the 80's or 90's and it had a gold chain running through each tube at the top and locked with a gold padlock

Does anyone have a picture of one of these please or a link where I can buy??

Money no object.
Thanks.

wow, just had a flashback

2009-01-07 06:10:32 by