Poll: Do you use coin flips or cardboard holders?

Kliao

Wondering what type of holder people use

Plastic flip?

OR

Cardboard 2x2?

Post why you use a certain holder

bronzemat

The plastic flip is better

For my ancient coins I use flips. For my world moderns and few u.s. coins left, cardboard flips.

Cameonut

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I hate plastic flips for a ton of reasons.

DNADave

Both

MWallace

Saflips and cardboard holders

PerryHall

I use Mylar flips (Saflip) for my raw coins. PVC flips are NOTsafe for coins. As far as the cardboard coin holders go, staples make my coins too nervous.

JBK

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I like high end mylar flips for some coins, but I also use mostly the old cardboard 2x2s, but only after I have wiped the cardboard dust off the inside.

My issue with flips is that they are not air tight, but the 2x2s, once stapled, are mostly air tight.

DiggerJim

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I like to use the 20 pocket sheets and put them in binders. The 2x2’s give me the preferred symmetrical look where the plastic flips seem to let the coins go all over the place.

DiggerJim

rmorgan

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I see advantages to both. But if the coin is special, I use a round capsule which is my favorite of all the options.

djm

Both, depends what I am going to be doing with the coin.

blitzdude

None of the above, if it comes in a flip or holder it immediately gets transferred to a tube prior to burial out on the back forty.

I do posses some slabs (less than 1000) and usually leave as such unless they have the nasty then I crack and dip to make them right again.

Namvet69

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I like the amount of info I can write on both sides of the cardboard. Peace Roy

Hydrant

@blitzdude said:
None of the above, if it comes in a flip or holder it immediately gets transferred to a tube prior to burial out on the back forty.

I like that! By the way.....where's the back 40?

Zoins

The plastic flip is better

I use plastic flips because they are easier - no staples.

They can be much safer if you use a heat seal.

Dave99B

The plastic flip is better

Zero staples near my coins. Flips.

Dave

RockyMtnProspector

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

Both, depending on destination--slabbing, or to keep raw in the collection.

Hemispherical

Glue, duct tape, hammer, vise grips, several different types of acid, industrial air compressor powered staple gun, shellac, dremel, and clear plastic sheets which has that shower curtain smell.

Edit: Forgot the 90-100w motor oil.

koynekwest

Dansco.

keets

The plastic flip is better

plastic flips don't cause staple scratches.

DNADave

2x2s have never been a problem for me in reference to staples.
I use a “Max” flat-clinch stapler.

Vs a standard stapler

CollectorBonEZ

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I like to use the cardboard and mylar flips for half dollar size and smaller. For large dollars, similar sized coins and extra thick coins I use a full mylar plastic flip or an Air-Tite plastic capsule. When I use the cardboard flips I do not use staples as the can damage other coins and flips if stored together. No one wants to pull out an uncirculated coin only to find a fresh scratch running across the face giving it a detail grade. Instead of staples I use clear tape tightly pressed around the edges. This does sometimes allow the coins to move a bit, but a little tap on one side or the other will put it back in place. In my opinion the tape looks nicer than staples, as well.

BillJones

The plastic flip is better

Almost all of my good U.S. coins are slabbed, but when I have a raw coin I use safety slips. For early copper, I use envelopes and cloth lined pouches. I prefer to have tokens, medals and my foreign and ancient coins raw and stored in flips.

I only use cardboard holders for items that I am selling in venues like my local club auction.

ricko

The plastic flip is better

I prefer the plastic flip (non PVC)...Though I have a lot of coins in 2x2's....mostly acquired that way. I do not like the staples and mash them down or sometimes just remove them and put in flips. Cheers, RickO

Zoins

The plastic flip is better

@BillJones said:
Almost all of my good U.S. coins are slabbed, but when I have a raw coin I use safety slips. For early copper, I use envelopes and cloth lined pouches. I prefer to have tokens, medals and my foreign and ancient coins raw and stored in flips.

I only use cardboard holders for items that I am selling in venues like my local club auction.

What's the advantage of envelopes with cloth lined pouches? I have a few tokens I've purchased that came this way.

oih82w8

The plastic flip is better

When I do use flips, I heat seal them to keep them in place.

Kliao

The plastic flip is better

@oih82w8 said:
When I do use flips, I heat seal them to keep them in place.

How do you heat seal them?

Cougar1978

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I use both depending on the coin.

Flips - Usually larger coins50c size and up plus proofs

2x2 cardboard holders - Usually smaller, cheaper coins. Ideal for my $5 and under junk box at shows.

Raw coins usually displayed in display case 2 at shows in 20 coin pages stacked which go in binder. Presently collector coins and raw nice bullion ASE or world bullion. Coins in pages can range from $1 to $60. Display case 2 also displays graded currency, slabs under $100, raw world currency in stacks $3 - $120. Case 1 higher priced slabbed coins around 100 pieces - Varsity.

ctf_error_coins

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I hate flips. Do you like scratches?

2x2 cardboard all the way. Only a dork would scratch a coin with a staple so that is not part of the consideration.

matt_dac

I don’t use any of the ones above. I’m fancy and only have slabs!

@blitzdude said:

I do posses some slabs (less than 1000) and usually leave as such unless they have the nasty then I crack and dip to make them right again.

Ha ha ha! What is the nasty?

oih82w8

The plastic flip is better

@Kliao said:

@oih82w8 said:
When I do use flips, I heat seal them to keep them in place.

How do you heat seal them?

This works nicely with Saflips.

johnny9434

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I use the cardboard flips then as a back up the plastic ones

Kliao

The plastic flip is better

@johnny9434 said:
I use the cardboard flips then as a back up the plastic ones

Do you trim the 2x2? Or how do you het it to fit?

johnny9434

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I tend not to mess with it none to much. about the only thing I do with the flips is flatten the staples so not to scratch any thing, fwiw

derryb

saflips only

OwenSeymour

Those BCW flips are awful. They contain PVC. I really recommend that if you intend to store coins in flips for anymore than a few weeks to just buy Saflips.

keets

The plastic flip is better

it seems that the word "archival" would never be used with the stapled cardboard/mylar flips. that should mean something, but judging by the Poll it doesn't.

interesting.

Kliao

The plastic flip is better

@OwenSeymour said:
Those BCW flips are awful. They contain PVC. I really recommend that if you intend to store coins in flips for anymore than a few weeks to just buy Saflips.

Really? I have most of my coins in them. They said that they contained no PVC!

BillJones

The plastic flip is better

@ErrorsOnCoins said:
I hate flips. Do you like scratches?

2x2 cardboard all the way. Only a dork would scratch a coin with a staple so that is not part of the consideration.

There have been dorks around for many years. I committed to a coin many years ago, and the dork dealer scratched it with a staple before I paid for it. The coin was in a flip with a staple at the top. In those pre-slab days, dealers frequently stirred their inventory that way.

CCGGG

Couldn't vote since no poll options really fit. For raw coins, ~20% flips, ~30% cardboard, ~50% folders/albums.

WinLoseWin

@Zoins said:
I use plastic flips because they are easier - no staples.

They can be much safer if you use a heat seal.

Has anyone studied what the air is like in the sealed part? I know it can be bad in those with PVC. As a consignor long ago, I've had coins that started to haze by the time I saw them at lot viewing.

Just recently acquired some raw at a major auction that looked OK but smelled terrible like the shower curtain PVC. They now have to be acetone rinsed. Have found that to be the case on many raw sealed lots for decades, so I don't think they all had the problem before being heat sealed. Have tried heat sealing long ago and from the smell on the outside you knew it was trapped on the inside also.

As far as non-PVC and heat sealing, I haven't seen any thing studied. Still, just would not trust that long term without proof of safety.

As far as preferred holders I like both cardboard 2x2's, as long as dust is cleaned off the inside, and PVC-free flips.

ScoobyDoo2

Cardboard holders for me... and careful with the staples.

blitzdude

@Hydrant said:

@blitzdude said:
None of the above, if it comes in a flip or holder it immediately gets transferred to a tube prior to burial out on the back forty.

I like that! By the way.....where's the back 40?

Gods country! Semper Fi!!!

blitzdude

@matt_dac said:

@blitzdude said:

I do posses some slabs (less than 1000) and usually leave as such unless they have the nasty then I crack and dip to make them right again.

Ha ha ha! What is the nasty?

Any toning on silver or gold. Disgusting, oh it makes me want to vomit.

mr1931S

The Collector might not like staples for any number of reasons but I have never seen a staple attack a coin of its own accord. There is a proper way to install staples around a coin in a 2x2 and there is a proper way to remove them that is safe.

I use Saflips and cardboard 2x2's. Properly heat sealing a Saflip makes it both air tight and waterproof. I'm not crazy about Saflips for the reason they easily scratch.

ms70

The 2x2 cardboard holder is safer

I use the cardboard ones that stick together without staples.

Kliao

The plastic flip is better

@ms70 said:
I use the cardboard ones that stick together without staples.

There are ones that don’t need staples?

OwenSeymour

@Kliao said:

@OwenSeymour said:
Those BCW flips are awful. They contain PVC. I really recommend that if you intend to store coins in flips for anymore than a few weeks to just buy Saflips.

Really? I have most of my coins in them. They said that they contained no PVC!

Yeah, funny story about that. About four years ago I had some very nice Gem Franklins in them. After a few months of storage they were covered in PVC, and ruined. Even after acetone they looked awful. I called BCW and they informed me that the cover of the package was misleading, and that they did indeed contain PVC. No "sorry". Lol

asheland

I don’t use any of the ones above. I’m fancy and only have slabs!

My vote was in jest. I use both.

TwoSides2aCoin

I use plastic, cardboard, and tubes. Lately, it seems I've been taking more and more out of cardboard flips and putting them in albums or in a tube. When packaging and shipping, it's typically heat sealed plastic (no pvc) . Because houses for coins are temporary ( with exceptions).