Many of us have put away rolls of modern coins. They appear to sell for more in original bank or mint rolls, but in the very long run will these coins be ruined by the paper? If storing for the long run, would it be better to store the coins in archival safe tubes? Anyone have experience with long term storage?
If you store the rolls in a controlled environment (not too wet or dry, not too hot or cold, constant conditions like in a bedroom closet) then paper wrappers are generally safe. Any time you mess with coins, you do them harm, so my recommendation is always to leave them in the state they are in and just store them safely. I have opened paper bank rolls of Cents from the 40's that were stored properly and the coins were fresh as the day they were minted. I have also opened similar rolls that were stored in wet (condensing) conditions, and the coins were junk.
I have several dozen of the 2004-2006 Westward Journey Mint rolls that I put in the square tubes, wrapper and all. So, they've been in the tubes for 10-12 years, and these tubes are in 20-roll boxes. I check them every once in a while, and I haven't noticed any problem. I also have a couple hundred of the 2004-2006 Westward Journey rolls that came from the release ceremonies, and I store these in 50-roll boxes that have the paperboard dividers. These, too, have been stored in these boxes for 10-12 years, and I've noticed no problems with them as well. Chris
That top pic looks like moldy dinner rolls the bottom a nasty potato. Maybe it's just to close to dinner time.jk
I've opened several 1950s and 60s rolls of cents and they're usually ok. There is dark toning on the rims though often. Sometimes I see the green stuff on some of the coins, but never widespread
Keep them dry, dry and dry and than it's a great pleasure to see original rolls from long gone eans like the swirrling twentys or flowering sventies.
I opened a roll of pennies that had the 1943 steel at 1 end had a perfect black circle on the exposed side which was the obverse of penny other than that was a BU quality roll
I leave most of my coin rolls in the paper wrappers. No problems so far. For example, years ago I inherited some Lincoln cent rolls from my Grandmother. Undisturbed for over 50 years in SoCalif. Last year, I opened one roll... put 'em in airtites, for stocking stuffers (maybe spark an interest in a few youngsters). I hoped for some interesting toners. But no, they all looked as nice as this one.
