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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3210580, member: 112&quot;]Sorry but that&#039;s not so at all. PVC flips are just as common as they ever were. In fact the vast majority of coin dealers use them with all their raw coins, and even the TPGs recommend using them when sending coins in for grading. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is why. For short term storage PVC flips are just fine, they won&#039;t harm your coins. It&#039;s only with long term storage where they become a problem and start releasing the harmful gasses.</p><p><br /></p><p>But non-PVC flips, they can harm your coin the day you put them in the flips, as well as every time you take them out and put them back into the flips. And, they are also harmful to coin even if you don&#039;t take the coins in and out of the flip. This is because the coin, while it slides around inside the flip, experience slight wear on its high points because of the harder plastic. And over longer periods of time the amount of that wear increases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, coin flips of any kind are a very bad idea for long term storage of coins. Same thing for cardboard 2x2 holders, and coin albums. These 3 three things, flips, 2x2s and albums, even though they are the most common storage methods there are - all 3 of them are bad for your coins ! With each one having it&#039;s own problems.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can however protect the coins. You do that with proper storage methods. First, you place each coin in a hard plastic coin holder. Air-Tite brand coin holders are the least expensive and they will protect the coins every bit as well as any other coin holder, including the slabs used the TPGs. Second, the coins, in their holders, need to be stored in a sealed container, like a Tupperware container as an example. And inside the container you need to place a rechargeable silica-gel pack to help control and minimize humidity. And the container needs to be stored in a cool, dark, place where the temperature remains fairly constant. That&#039;s how you protect the coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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