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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 25827, member: 283&quot;]There are so many choices to be exercised in making decisions on storage methods. How you collect, why you collect, whether you want `accessibility&#039; to the actual coin as opposed to looking at them through plate glass in a humidity controlled environment......etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Every choice involves either suffering a loss of `utility&#039; (such as coin preserved in a slab or at arms length) or taking a risk on potential damage (keeping coins fairly accessible but in flips or in the raw). I think the balance of utility / risk / cost factors vary from person to person as do the potential solutions and it all boils down to how the individual views (and values) their collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your flips are indeed PVC free and you are storing these flips in a media that is relatively coin friendly then you should be fine. As I mentioned earlier, I think it&#039;s a bit daft to go with safe flips just to go and put the flips into a `plasticised&#039; pvc album sheet. In fact, it&#039;s madness in my opinion, but at least a step better than using pvc flips too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your gold coins are relatively immune from the damage that other metals tend to suffer from. I say `relatively&#039; , because even gold coins contain other metals (usually copper by design, but sometimes others in the form of trace impurities). While gold will not react to&nbsp; corrosive agents, there is a (remote) possibility that `other metals&#039; present in the mix could. To be honest, i&#039;ve never seen this happen other than with one particular gold coin I have (a dutch 10 gulden) which has a dark spot on it. The dark spot looks more like a stain....excepting gold isn&#039;t supposed to stain. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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