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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 6374859, member: 105098"]The PVC contamination is a nasty bugger. there's no easy way to correct it without putting the work in and going over everything and treating one coin at a time, eradicating the PVC from the collection and on the coins. Just saying you'd want to be thorough, in confined spaces the plasticizer vapors can travel and settle on other flips and coins and even thought you treated and thought you got it all a few years later find some more green appearing on coins that looked OK on the first round. No idea how big of a problem you have with it, mine was minor as I mostly coin roll hunted and had very few coins bought from dealers as gifts for me so my PVC flip problem was just a handful and I got rid of It when it began to appear on the first of them and changed everything to modern 2x2s.My LCS will still send me home with silver eagles in PVC type soft flips last time I bought from there before the pandemic.  I keep a couple non-PVC flips in the car just in case I come across something I want to protect until I get home then transfer to 2x2s... but nope. No PVC flips making it into the house anymore that's for sure. I think in general the dealers assume it's temporary and you'll be storing it differently so they don't care, like if it was a box or bag, just something to get it home in to them. I also think we all learn this the hard way and don't give it much thought starting out and assume the dealer puts stuff in inert packaging for longevity. Not so in a whole lot of cases. Heck I'm sure if I went in there now he'd have some Gold Eagles in his display cases in slightly yellowed PVC flips that have been sitting there like that since the 1990s or earlier.[/QUOTE]

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