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Storing Coins: You must to be aware of the possibility of the acid in curatorial materials (paper and fabrics etc.) adversely effecting your collection. This is less a problem with metal items like coins then it is with photographs or delicate fabric. Unfortunately, many heirlooms have been ruined after they were carefully and lovingly wrapped up in acidic paper. If your collection is sufficiently valuable, you MUST read up on the subject at the UPPER MIDWEST CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION for more then you would ever want to know about acid free materials. |
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Coins are beautiful, but you have to admit that paper money is interesting too. If you collect paper money, check out Riker Mounts as a display case for your best stuff and Riker Frames. -to dress up the display case just a little more.
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| . | I must tell you a story about Riker Mounts and curating paper money. When I first started selling casework to collectors I did -among other subjects- a number of coin collector's show. (Found coin and bill collectors to be lovely people, but then all people are nice when they are involved in something they love.) Anyway, at one particular show, I bought some cheep old paper money from around the world and put it all in the Riker-Mount display case shown above. It was a simple matter to arrange the bills artistically on the cotton batting and close it all up under the glass lid. This particular mounted collection went around Northern California with me and I would display it in my booth to show people how they might display things like paper money. It was a nice display and impressed show attendees. (The most interesting bill in the collection -I thought- was a Philippine Dollar -printed in English -issued by the Japanese Occupational Authority. The guy who sold it to me explained that when Japan would take over a country -the period leading up to WWII- they would issue their own currency.) It may have been a year or so later that I had occasion to open the Riker and I noticed that there was a clear impression of this 50 year old bill on the glass it had been placed against. You had to hold it up to the light just right but there it was, a clear reverse image. Think of it -50 year old ink that was still sufficiently volatile to actually flow onto another surface! It didn't appear to have hurt the bill and it came off the glass easily enough, but -and it's a big BUT -if this bill had been placed against a white porous surface, it would certainly have stained it and might well have actually glued itself to the substrate. |
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