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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fusiafinch, post: 663316, member: 18382&quot;]You know what? I remember looking through some flips from a dealer at the ANA show, and everything in his storage boxes were in those soft flips. He obviously just stored them this way. I wonder if he knew that he may be ruining his own coins? Aren&#039;t dealers supposed to be knowledgable about this?</p><p><br /></p><p>About 10 years ago when I was first starting out, a local dealer sold me a bunch of his soft flips to store my coins. When I asked if these contained PVC, he insisted that it did not. Well, after a few months, I became suspicious when some slime appeared on one of my coins. So I searched for that test that I mentioned above, and tried it on the flips that he sold me. Green flame, big time. I was so disappointed. Apparently, he had no problem with these because he moved inventory and never saw a problem using them. But I was using them for long term storage. I replace all of those flips with mylar flips or Saflips, and threw all of my soft flips out. Today, if I receive a coin in a soft flip from mail order, I am sure to inspect it for contamination and then immediately throw away the flip.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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