Silver storage for collection type coins.

[RoughDog]

How do you store your collector style coins to avoid the dreaded tarnish and millk spotting?  🤔🙄🤔

I have thought of purchasing a box for the complete set of lunar series 2 one oz silver coins. 📦🙂

Currently they are stored in their capsules inside individual sealed plastic bags with the air squeezed out. 😑🤨

Hopefully without tempting ill fate this seems to work OK.  Obviously not the best way to appreciate the artwork of the collection. 🧐🤩 🐭🐮🐯🐰🐱‍🐉🐍🐴🐐

 

So do I purchase a box and hope for the best or do I leave them as is.  Leaving them as is seems counter intuitive to me.  I can't help thinking that after ⌛⏳ it will end up being 🧐😯😆😥

What is the point of paying an extra premium for beautiful looking things to not look at them? 

 

Thoughts?

 

 

 

[Au79]

I have read this formulation:

Anti tarnishing bag + oxygen absorber + Dehumidifier Box 

[Gildeon]

I keep them in their capsules, put an anti-tarnish stripe and a silicon gel in the box and hope for the best! 🙄

But all the above can't prevent milk spotting, it seems to be totally random. I don't think Lunars tend to spot often though.

[JackKlugman]

I thought nothing could stop milk spotting but keeping them in a controlled environment and in a capsule lowered the chances of them developing. However even then it’s not enough as slabbed MS70 coins get milk spots 

[Pete]

If a coin is going to milk spot there is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent this.
To avoid tarnish you have to try and exclude surrounding air that contains traces of smoke ( sulphur is the primary culprit ) so no smoking, open fires, BBQs garden bonfires etc.
Unfortunately this is sometimes impossible if in summer weather your neighbour's BBQ blows indoors.
Good tight caps are best and maybe store in a ziplock bag or tupperware box with a sachet of silica gel.

NOTE - I am concerned about some black inner rings that you find in some capsules.
Some of my coins in these caps are rapidly tarnishing around their rims whereas the same coins in non-ringed caps are not.

I've also noted in my early dated Britannia proof sets, tarnish appearing mainly on the smallest sized coins and these have the black rings inside their caps from the Royal Mint so I guess there is some chemical agent causing tarnishing.
 

[RoughDog]

So to summarise it seems as tho buying silver collector coins is not a good idea.  The greater the premium paid the greater the risk.

Brits, bars and poured silver seem to be the only thing that makes sense to me.

 

[JunkBond]

This is why I buy old bars. 👍