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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3902284, member: 85693"]Interesting thread.  I really dislike the stiff flips - in my experience, you can open them up about twice before they split at the hinge.  So I use the soft, unsafe ones.  I've had coins in these for close to 30 years in some cases and yes, they will leave green stuff on silver - which you can pretty much rub off with your finger.  As for bronze, I don't know - I only started collecting a lot of bronze recently.  Which is to say they are risky, but I was frustrated by the stiff ones snapping in two if you looked at them wrong. As for the inserts, I have come up with a system that works pretty well for me - I use 9 point type in twelve lines (I used an antique version of Microsoft Word, Times New Roman).  I print them on cardstock (not labels - I can never line up stuff in the printer good enough for that).  Then I cut them out with scissors.  My scissor skills have not improved since Kindergarten, unfortunately. This makes for a pretty full, but not crowded insert that fits in the flip.  Here is an example: [ATTACH=full]1028501[/ATTACH] Here is a more complicated insert - sometimes I have to print up a second insert for the back to fit in additional information: [ATTACH=full]1028502[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]