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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2615663, member: 66"]Wrong, PVC is a hard brittle plastic. An additive or plasticizer is added to PVC to make is soft and pliable. This plasticizer can leach back out of the PVC plastic over time and that is what gets on your coins. This is called "PVC residue". (It doesn't have PVC in it, it is called that because it is a residue that leached out of the PVC.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>PVC is sometimes used as a hard plastic as well in its unplasticized form. Also there are plastics that are natually soft and do not contain plasticizers or PVC.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>PVC residue can be these colors, PVC DAMAGE is an etched surface seen on the coin after the PVC residue has been removed. PVC residue can be removed by the use of acetone, but PVC <u>damage</u> can NOT be removed or fixed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2615663, member: 66"]Wrong, PVC is a hard brittle plastic. An additive or plasticizer is added to PVC to make is soft and pliable. This plasticizer can leach back out of the PVC plastic over time and that is what gets on your coins. This is called "PVC residue". (It doesn't have PVC in it, it is called that because it is a residue that leached out of the PVC.) PVC is sometimes used as a hard plastic as well in its unplasticized form. Also there are plastics that are natually soft and do not contain plasticizers or PVC. PVC residue can be these colors, PVC DAMAGE is an etched surface seen on the coin after the PVC residue has been removed. PVC residue can be removed by the use of acetone, but PVC [U]damage[/U] can NOT be removed or fixed.[/QUOTE]
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