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IN THIS CHAPTER

Displaying your collection

Handling and cleaning your coins

Avoiding moisture

Securing and insuring your collection

Assuming that it stays in circulation, an average coin lasts roughly 30 years during a regular journey from the time it’s minted to the day it wears out completely. Check the change in your pocket to see how much money you have dated before 1970. You likely won’t find very many coins, if any. Over the years, coins are damaged, lost, worn out, burned up, corroded, or dirtied, or they wind up in piggy banks and coin collections.

Given proper protection, a coin may last forever under perfect conditions. So although you may think you own the coins in your collection, you’re really just taking care of them for the next owner. By protecting your coins today, you benefit from the preservation of their value for yourself and future generations, just as you’ve benefited from the efforts of the collectors who came before.

The three most important things you can do to preserve your coins are

 Protect them.

 Keep them safe.

 Keep them dry.

In this chapter, I show you how.