The 1938-D Buffalo Nickel -- this one has been in a PVC plastic holder for a LONG time!
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Take a look at this 1938-D buffalo nickel and what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
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Just be grateful the coin is in a cointain otherwise all that pvc would have made a real mess.
As a side note I remember getting big postcards from the seller of this coin touting that the “gem uncirculated” 1938d nickel was bound to become a one thousand dollar coin eventually!!” I was shocked then and am still shocked!
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If it is in a contain good, I did not notice that. But I have seen so many coins in the soft PVC flips that have been damaged over the years.
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When those sealed DHRC flips were issued in the 1980s soft pvc flips were commonly used, there was not as much awareness about the damage pvc flips can cause. I think DHRC always used cointain in those sealed flips.
first thing that comes to my mind is rare coin holder
I have not seen any PVC from Hall flips, much different than older Harco Coinmaster
I can still remember in the early 1970ies when the Harco Coinmaster albums came out, I bought some and had my set of buffalo nickels in one. After a number of years when the damage of the pvc inserts in these albums to the coins had occurred, Harco was offering free rigid non plastic “sliders” as replacement plus a bottle of some kind of coin dip to fix the coins, which was a joke as the coins in many cases were permanently ruined. I did not suffer any damage to my coins but I read a number of horror stories about complete unc sets of Lincoln cents being ruined.)
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I think you are very fortunate that the Buff has not experienced damage....will you continue to keep it in the old holder? From what is visible, it seems to be a nice coin. Cheers, RickO
I've seen many a coin ruined by those damn albums. I had several proof Kennedy 50c that were beyond repair with the green slime that had eaten into the coin.
There is another type of album produced around the same time as the Harco albums, these are the
“Enor” coinguard albums that used the same type of plastic pvc-laden pages and probably slimed up a lot of coins too.
Any one here ever remember the Enor CoinGuard albums?
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I don't recall that one.
I would not worry about the DHRC holders. As mentioned above, the coins are all in a Cointain holder and then inserted and sealed into the flips.
I have about 15 albulms of coins in Harco Coin Master albums.
NONE have PVC.
However,,,,,,,,,,,,, I put every coin in a Koin-Tain capasule just like in the David Hall flips.
Very easy to see the coin is in a capsule,,,,,, you can see the plastic rim all around the coin.
I think they changed the composition of those plastic strips that the coins are inserted into from PVC to a more benign substance.
Yes they did at some point but I used the Koin-Tains just to be sure.
As I recall my slide strips are all the hard brittle plastic. Like the Saflips are made of. You have to be careful or you can split them putting a coin in the pockets. The hard plastic are the good ones.
I'd like to see a pic of a pvc damaged coin....not sure what it does. Anybody have one to post?
That's a trade off, I guess, but certainly preferable to PVC damage.