# Securing historic securities: the paper is dead, the collector price lives

> Secure historic securities: flat, dark, acid-free. Keep coupon and body as one piece, proofs separate.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/historische-wertpapiere-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

An old share pays no dividend anymore. Its price is the print, the signature, the vignette, and the condition of the paper. Folded in a box in the attic, it turns brown. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) it sits with paper, not with cash.

## What breaks without a thief

Light, damp, acid, adhesive tape, paper clips with rust. You store flat and dark. A coupon that belongs to the sheet stays with the sheet, otherwise you have two half pieces. Ink from stamps can bleed if the folder gets damp.

## When someone comes

A binder on the shelf is light. The offender often takes it for waste paper and leaves it, or takes it along because it looks very much like a binder. Your loss comes in both cases, once water or the mess joins in. Valuable sheets go in the document cabinet.

## The folder

Catalog number, face value, denomination, whether the coupon is complete, purchase proof. A scan of front and back outside the apartment. The policy needs the collector price, not the printed face value from 1910.


## Häufige Fragen

### Are historic shares still money?

No. They are collector's pieces made of paper. The printed amount is not the price.

### May I hang them framed?

Then they are exposed to light. For storage, flat and dark. For showing, only briefly.

### Where does the coupon sheet go?

With the piece, in the same folder, and marked on the list as complete or missing.