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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2529894, member: 56859&quot;]Almost every coin I&#039;ve bought arrived a soft flip, the type that has at least some PVC.&nbsp; PVC-free flips are very brittle and crack after just a few openings.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you&#039;re a dealer-- especially one who takes a table at shows, where flips will be handled frequently-- soft flips make sense.&nbsp; The end-collector can transfer it to a PVC-flip if desired.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of my large bronze coins will crack their PVC-free flips even without opening them!&nbsp; In addition to cracking at the fold, they can and do crack at the &quot;bottom&quot; and the coin can fall out if you don&#039;t notice.</p><p><br /></p><p>One auction house (I don&#039;t remember which one, maybe Stacks?) included a note with the coins saying their flips were meant to be temporary.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP images do look like PVC-free flips.&nbsp; The top pictures looks like the flips sold by Forvm and the bottom flips are Saflips, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for value of the lot, I don&#039;t know anything about the medievals.&nbsp; The ancients look nice but are probably common/inexpensive types (not that there&#039;s anything wrong with that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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