The best way to store your Silver & Gold..

[TommyTwoShots]

16 hours ago, lst65 said:

How do you vacuum store please..?

I have a food sealer that vacuums and seals

[EdwardTeach]

On 23/10/2021 at 19:41, lst65 said:

The best way to store your Silver & Gold..

What silver? I don't have any silver...

Rule number 1 - Don't tell anyone that you have any silver or gold.

[stefffana]

If it is a dirty and heavy bucket in a garage, or under a boiler, can be a kind of Kinder Surprise.😊

[HerefordBullyun]

You should all store your gold and silver on my boat HMS Bullyun.

It sinks regular, but good for no track and trace but will be very secure for a long time! 

Edited December 21, 2021 by HerefordBullyun

[Mrpound]

@HerefordBullyun as long as you don’t follow this blokes advice on storing 😵

[Aikijoker]

These metals don't really degrade that much. There are loads of stories of apparent 'irresponsible' storage over decades that has resulted in little to no degredation. I guess that's what is so brilliant about these metals for this use case. That and scarcity, becasue other metals are just as corrosion resistant (if not capable of sustaining far harsher conditions).

Store away from heat, moisture, people and animals... Infact, anything that respires, soil, plants etc...

Make sure there are no spaces in these vaccum sealing bags. Never know with these chinesium grade food sealers. Gases trapped might do some damage and not aesthetically as pleasing as atmospheric corrosion when it's trapped in a bubble causing a localised patina. What are the bags made out of? Hopefully nothing leaching from these bags either.

Just as good would be putting them in another inert envionment like under argon or nitrogen. When ever you open your capsules spray a bit of inert gas in there if you have it. This will dissipate any corrosive gases like nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, sulphides, oxygen, CO2 etc... Or could put the stuff in a vaccum box.

The surface finish will only last indefinitely in an inert environment. No mint, or dealers blister packs can be assumed properly sealed, or capsules or cases etc... Sometimes patina adds value for people after years and years anyway.

If it's bullion then maybe not worth too much effort of course.

[HerefordBullyun]

8 hours ago, Mrpound said:

@HerefordBullyun as long as you don’t follow this blokes advice on storing 😵

Well Im sure theres less safer options to store it.Incase of WWIII or an apocalypse, financial crash when people are rioting - an emergency sov (or kilo of silver) shoved up ya fart pipe may not be such a daft idea! Ideally Id opt to do it to the missus in the guise of passion, now I know why they called the TV program, the golden girls! 

[Oddjob]

If it's just ordinary bullion...sometimes the old ways are the best and easiest.

Vid from dealer in Melb opening up a box of 2013 ASE's that old mate had buried in his backyard some 6-7 years earlier. Long story short...like new.

 

[dikefalos]

1 hour ago, Oddjob said:

If it's just ordinary bullion...sometimes the old ways are the best and easiest.

Vid from dealer in Melb opening up a box of 2013 ASE's that old mate had buried in his backyard some 6-7 years earlier. Long story short...like new.

 

That's almost the only good thing to live in a dusty environment. They look almost brand new minted. He didn't even covered it with a bag while it was buried

[SidS]

I was thinking if it had been buried in a damp, rainy country... especially where there's clay under the top soil, they wouldn't come out looking like that!

[Oddjob]

The ASE's were in old mates garden bed so plenty of water flowing down and over.

Same bullion dealer also bought some ag bars from another punter in a regional part of Victoria which is a tad dry but not desert. Old mate dug a hole, threw'em, in and this is the result 6 odd years later when he dug them up.