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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lev99, post: 3577683, member: 103627&quot;]I’ve tried using exclusively the plastic 2x2’s experimenting with different brands and pages and I’m pretty sure they won’t fit into the vinyl sheet pages. I must have thrown my vinyl test sheet away because I can’t find it to check it right now. But if it would have fit I’m pretty sure I would have kept it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have the quadrum sheets by lighthouse so I feel your pain of them being extra thick. If you are going to use snaplock plastic 2x2’s your options are somewhat limited simply due to size and thickness of the plastic 2x2’s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Plastic 2x2’s have a lot of advantages, but storage is mainly in 2x2 boxes, lighthouse pages, and eagle pages. The album pages also become less clear from scratching if you leave them loose outside of binders. Same with plastic 2x2’s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I personally don’t like the cardboard 2x2’s themselves because I just have a lot of trouble with cardboard particles somehow finding their way onto coins. I have considered using those little plastic flips as surrogate 2x2’s, but they won’t fit into the vinyl pages either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago when I was a newbie I made the mistake of stapling 2x2’s and keeping them together with rubber bands. Bad idea on all counts. The rubber bands tone terribly, and the staples punctured the plastic film and scratched coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as vinyl goes, I’m not terribly sure if vinyl and pvc are the same. Mylar is a brand name that I *believe* was discontinued by Dupont, which is why it’s hard to find supplies called Mylar, and that companies save money by using generic equivalents and avoiding copyrighted brand names. I think the latest iteration is something called melinex, but that’s a brand name too so they call the generic stuff poly or polyester or some such thing. I’ve sort of concluded is that if the plastic is rigid it’s good. The more pliable vinyls I never could figure out.&nbsp; There’s a whole set of topics on what to use for inert plastics and what is the equivalent generic term for brand names. That topic eventually you’ll find yourself looking up archival quality conversations related to acid free paper, preservation of postage stamps, etc, and specs. Way beyond this question. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I ended up solving the problem of both storage and display and keeping the universality of 2x2’s and albums by buying direct fit kointains and cardboard 2x2’s. I put the coins into the rigid Mylar kointains, and fit them into a cardboard 2x2 that was bigger than I needed so I could see the edge. Even if the coin moves around, the kointain is tight on the coin. For nickels, I used a staple type quarter 2x2. I used staple 2x2’s rather than self adhesive because staple type 2x2’s have the plastic on the inside keeping the coin away from the cardboard, while the adhesive 2x2’s have a gum inside contacting the coin with the plastic film on the outside of the cardboard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, if you’re looking for supplies, sometimes you can score good deals on “used coin supplies” on eBay. People have tons of stuff there and you can save some money. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hth[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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