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View Poll Results: what do you store your ancients in more, Flips or Cardboard staple holders, and why? | |
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05-23-2008, 08:37 PM
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| | CONSVL
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: T-Town Beat Down, Michigan
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My Mood:  | Do you store your ancients in Flips or Cardboard Holders?
How do you store you ancients, in flips or cardboard staple holders
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05-23-2008, 09:30 PM
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| | FVTVE FATVM
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
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Flips all the way (or soon to be, at least). You just cannot fit enough information on a cardboard holder.
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05-23-2008, 09:42 PM
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| | US Coin Collector
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Albuquerque
Posts: 2,393
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Flips, and for the same reason.
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05-23-2008, 11:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Cardboard holders only because I have one ancient and thats what it came in  | |
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05-24-2008, 07:52 AM
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| | Yep
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Krasny Vostok
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Some of them don't fit in cardboard or flips  I have a Ptolemy IV from Egypt that is an AE46, it is a monster that has a holder unto itself.
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05-24-2008, 08:24 AM
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| | Coin Collector
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pats country!
Posts: 1,701
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has to be flips.
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05-24-2008, 06:00 PM
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| | CONSVL
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: T-Town Beat Down, Michigan
Posts: 3,153
My Mood: | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ardatirion  Flips all the way (or soon to be, at least). You just cannot fit enough information on a cardboard holder. | is that the only reason or are flips safer for ancients?
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05-24-2008, 10:09 PM
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| | Likes Silver
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Missouri
Posts: 3,480
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I use flips.
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05-24-2008, 10:59 PM
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| | Team Awesome
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: DENVER!/BOSTON!
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Flips all the way, for the reasons stated above.
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05-28-2008, 11:08 AM
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| | Coin Hoarder
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: MN
Posts: 875
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Saflips
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05-28-2008, 03:32 PM
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| | Coin Collector
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Midwest
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I use acid-free paper envelopes... I'm old school. 
Actually, I use these because the ancient dealer that got me interested in ancient coins suggested it as the best way to store ancients long-term. I've had some coins in them for 3 or 4 years now and they're perfect.
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05-28-2008, 06:14 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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I too have a fondness for acid-free paper envelopes -- I have some Roman Imperial coins that have been stored in them for over sixty years with no ill effects. Having said that, I have been primarily storing my coins in unplasticized safety flips for many years now -- again with no ill effects.
When I first started collecting ancient coins acid-free paper envelopes were all that was available and that is what everyone used -- with no problems that I remember. I don't think that plastic flips came into use until the 1950s -- then it seemed like most collectors turned to them by choice. I don't remember when folded and stapled 2x2 cardboards came into use -- I remember using them for awhile but I didn't like them.
James
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07-05-2009, 11:00 PM
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| | Born Gay
Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Providence
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I was just told that the PVC in flips will destroy my coins and not to use them , ever .
Bobby 
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07-05-2009, 11:45 PM
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| | Coin Collector
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pats country!
Posts: 1,701
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you need to get the non pvc flips. they are a little stiffer and some are brittle but its worth it for the proper protection.
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07-06-2009, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Western MA
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I actually keep all my coins, ancient or not, in PVC free flips. I like to be able to easily take my coins out and look at them unobstructed, and you can't beat the room for information. In addition, the stiffness of PVC free flips allows you to easily stand them up for display. Quote:
Originally Posted by scottishmoney Some of them don't fit in cardboard or flips I have a Ptolemy IV from Egypt that is an AE46, it is a monster that has a holder unto itself. | I have an AE40 of Ptolemy II that I keep in a flip despite the fact that it's practically bursting out of it. I feel that the tight fit hilights just how huge the coin is  | |
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