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As an alternative form of storage or display you can always keep your coins in plastic coin tubes. No long-term use of PVC based products should be your goal here, although short-term use is acceptable.

As the name implies what you’ll be getting are coin tubes of a certain size in which you can store your coins. What you do here is load your coins in one at a time until the coin tubes or the roll becomes filled up.

Since, as you can imagine, it might be a bit difficult to look at your coins when they’re placed in this fashion, you should only use it if you’re not going to want to look at your coins all the time. If and when you do want to take a peek at them, you’ll have to take the coins out one by one.

This is of course not a problem if the coin you want is somewhere near the top, but what happens if it’s nearer the bottom than the top? You’ll have to empty the whole coin tubes of coins to get to it and do it in manner which won’t damage them by rough and tumble handling.

I don’t use this type of storage very often since it’s very difficult to get to the coins all the time. But it does however, have its advantages and the fact that you can bundle all your coins into compact coin tubes does save you on lots of space.

Also the fact that you can put in your whole collection, or most of it anyway, of Lincoln cents is a great advantage. Having gone to all the trouble of collecting the best coins I could lay my hands on, the last thing I want to do is to put them in a cloth bag or a cookie jar or some such thing.

As for placing them in display folders, can you imagine the space I’d need if I was to put every single last cent, nickel, dime and quarter I had collected over the years in display albums? I’d barely have room to walk! Okay, so that was a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the drift, right?

Besides, if you don’t want to take your coins out all the time and look at them, then the coin tubes are also good in that, if you pack it to full capacity the coins will stay locked in one place without giving in to the urge to move around.

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Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator and has been researching and reporting on internet marketing for years. For more information on coin tubes, visit his site at coin tubes