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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1954548, member: 15929&quot;]Think about it folks!</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can &quot;smell&quot; the plastic, it IS giving off some type of gas! there HAS to be something in the air that the nose detects as a smell. The question is, is that gas harmful to coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>PVC has been proven, over the long term, to be harmful to coins. PVC also smells like a shower curtain or blow up swimming pool. PVC is added to plastic as a softener which makes it pliable and bendable.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, PVC is considered &quot;toxic&quot; and as such cannot be used in ANY container designed to store FOOD.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, I out my raw coins in 2x2&#039;s with flattened staples, put those 2x2&#039;s in cardboard storage boxes then stuff them in the closet. I have not obverse ANY toning or damage as a result of this storage method in close to 20 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>For slabbed coins, they eother go itno plastic storage boxes from PCGS or NGC and then into big plastic tubs or cardboard storage containers designed for plastic slabs.</p><p><br /></p><p>No observable damage has occurred to any of my slabbed coins since 1992. None.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one time, I DID have some Lincolns in a PVC infested Coin Album (which was popular back in the 70&#039;s and virtually every one of those Lincolns was infected with PVC damage and ended up in the trash. Some were so gunked up that I just did not feel right about spending them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So.......if you can smell the plastic, stay away because in 20 or 30 years, your coins will be all honked up!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything that takes 50 or 70 years to damage your coins won&#039;t really matter for you since you&#039;ll probably be long gone and your heirs are just going to march them down to the local B&amp;M anyway unless you&#039;ve documented what you have, what you paid and what it&#039;s numismatic meaning is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think those are more critical to the storage of coins than any specific receptacle! Of course, aside from receptacle&#039;s that smell like shower curtains that is![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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