Packaging coins for postage

[Fulvio]

I use tissue paper wrapped around the coins, then placed in to the small plastic coin bags that one gets form the bank and then between two pieces of cardboard which are norm ally old cereal boxes.   Then all is sent in padded bags.

This is a good way, as is Trout's.

I would use the bank bags, and a heat sealer, to produce a mix of the two methods. Come to think of it, I think I might have done that already...

[autocoupler]

Some years ago I purchased a 1959M Penny CHU Red from a leading Melbourne auction house. After a few months, to my sorrow, there started to appear a whopping great thumb print. There was obviously some slack coin care going on, either by the vendor or the auction people. My point being, at the end of the day it doesn't matter how the items are packaged if the clowns at the other end have their heads up the proverbial.

[Fulvio]

...the clowns at the other end have their heads up the proverbial.

And when you complain they whip out the Brasso and a buffing wheel... good as new! :diablo:

[echidna]

Many big ANDA dealers don't handle coins properly.
PCGS included.
They don't care.
I'd suggest that many high PCGS graded coppers especially proofs will develop spotting etc.
Main reason why I don't collect them any more...

[proof27]

I agree nealeffendi, I would rather spend half a day unwrapping a coin that has been securely sealed than open an envelope (or custard tart tin) than have a coin fall out of an envelope.