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Need a little guidance here. I've been stacking for some time now and have never ran in to this situation until now. The place the I have my silver is in a climate controlled environment but I decided a few months ago to put some dehumidifying cartridges inside to insure that moisture was staying out ( as a fail safe). I recently went and looked through a few tubes and noticed milk spots that previously weren't there.

I don't know how milk spots happen or what the cause of them are. All I know is that some of my BU coins now have these ugly spots.

Any thoughts or ideas to help me here as I'm pretty disappointed

Thanks in advance.

If these are silver American Eagles or junk silver coins (even BU) and you didn't pay a numismatic premium, I wouldn't be concerned at all. If these are truly rare dates and you paid a big numismatic premium, I'd consider relocating them. Just curious- do you have any PCGS or NGC certified coins that developed milk spots? I would think they wouldn't be affected, but I am curious nonetheless.

Are the milk spots on Maples?

I haven't seen any on the maples but there are still some tubes I didn't open due to frustration.

None of the graded pieces that I have checked have the milk spots.

It's like my collection has contracted malaria

I have seen milk spots show up on Canadian and Australian bullion that was mint sealed and never opened.

silverstacker wrote:
It's like my collection has contracted malaria

it's the dreaded milkbola virus. Sorry to hear that.

Water spots can be removed with a pencil eraser. Make sure the eraser is new and unused.