Sometimes when you talk to each other in the threads you let gold slip out

Thanks for taking the extra time to spell out the thoughts and reasons. (I try to do the same so newer members can follow along with the info easier. Online is easier and harder at the same time.)

I must be missing something here because with the ones I used, the mylar covered the cardboard and completely separated the coin from the cardboard.

Yes, those have been "lurking" in the deep dark recesses of my mind.

That was what I've been slowly leaning towards as well. I know they aren't hermetically sealed but do you know if the plastic used for them is ok as it ages and breaks down?

Again, Thanks from myself and many untold hundreds of newer collectors who happen across your info and recommendations and it actually sinks in how inexpensive learning can be. (Coins don't have to be lost to trial and error.)

 

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I've never heard of flat staples, either. Have you ever considered self adhesive coin flips? I have not tried them but am curious about how well they stay closed. It would eliminate the need for staples altogether.

 

Do the self adhesive cardboard coin flips work better to keep the air and gasses out? I do find that these flips are easier to store than individual coin holders.

 

Cardboard holders are not flips. They are cardboard holders. I would not use the self adhesive ones. You don't want that adhesive near your coins.

 

A few years ago I ruined a 1927 S SLQ that was at least VF-20. I have never used a stapled flip since. I switched to self sealing flips from Amos Advantage and have not looked back. If I purchase a coin in a flip with staples, out comes the loupe befor I purchase.
Semper Fi
Phil

 

I should have stated Cardboard not flips.
Never had a problem with the glue either.

 

Who offered the advice that the OP refers to? Is there a link

 

I use either my scissors handle or the edge of one of my magnifying glasses to flatten Staples on two by twos. Works great.

 

I know what you mean about the “gold” gleaned from this place @Southernman189….. I been hoarding coins more than fifty years. I often take coins out of the 2X2 holders for books, flips or whatever. I was lamenting in a thread how worried I was potentially scratching a coin removing it from a stapled 2X2 and one of the members here says, “just cut the film and let the coin fall out”….. Well, duuhhh…. Of course! How simple is that and why the heck hadn’t I figured that out after fifty years!…. Lots of gold on this site to be had.