Just wondering...I just bought some airtite coin holders and some Kointainer Saflips...PVC free from a place online that sells only PVC free coin holders...I did a search on the internet just to see if I was getting a good price and I was...now I found other websites like this one: http://www.brent-krueger.com/flips.html that sell these: 100 1.5"x1.5" vinyl coin flips with Inserts. Now why do they even MAKE and SELL PVC coin holders when it seems so well established that such holders can ruin a coin? I would think that they would just be taken off the market.
Because they can, and they can make them cheaper than archival products. Many dealers use them for mailing coins, and if the buyer promptly moves them to something safer, that kind of short-term use isn't likely to cause damage.
If you want to protect them put them in a baggie fill it with water and freeze them . Won't protect the coins but you'll have cold cash. Sorry I couldn't help myself. One thing you have to watch out for is that not all so called airtite capsules are the same. It has turned into a generic name and some of them are trash and you won't know until later. The brand names are priced higher but at least you know what you are getting. Air-Tite and Kointains both have a website. You can either order direct from them or they can tell you who in your area carries them.
I got my Airtites from here: edited - just in case and my kointainer flips from here: http://www.coinpocket.com/itemSAFLIP20.php they both seem on the up and up...
Warning :loud: Warning Airtites the site above just gave me a virus (trojan) but McAfee got it. Be careful when you click on that Airtiteholders its called W32/RAHack!htm W32/RAHack!7efec6d0 is a virus that attempts to spread by guessing username and password combinations on poorly-administered RemoteAdmin installations, as well as through the DCOM RPC vulnerability. Got the info from MaFee
wasn't the site that Drusus posted the one with a name very similar to the type of container? If so, I've been to that site numerous times with no problems, so I think it may be that they could have been hacked. Has anyone contacted the site to inform them? (assuming someone has the phone number for them)
sales@airtiteholders.com That is the e-mail, I just sent them a message concerning this, someone else might want to do the same...I just got the virus alert when I went there for a trojan virus...I didnt before... again, sorry, didnt mean to send people to a site with viruses
Whoa, that is the actual makers of the air tites, not the arkansas company of a similar name (air-tites.com). That might explain why I have not heard from them regarding an email I sent over the weekend.
I only use the 2x2 flips sold at coin shows around here for duplicate coins only. All others are in Whitman Classic Albums. All albums are placed in a freezer type bag and the air squeezed out as much as possible. I've been doing this for many, many years and not one sign of toning, corroding, tarnishing, etc on any coins. Of course who knows what they will look like in a hundred years of so. As for putting them in a freezer, that might actually work until they are taken out and condesation hits them. I'll have to try it on some coins. Odd thing is at the coin show last Sunday the guy I usually buy the 2x2's from for $2.50/100 sold me some for that price but then produced some that were about 1/3 thicker and he said that is all he will be handling form now on and the price is now $3.00/100. I bought 100 of each and noticed at home the thicker ones are harder to bend, harder to staple, take up a little more room in boxes but the main thing is they hardly fit in those plastic sheets for 3 ring binders with the 20 slot spaces for the 2x2's.
