Poll: Do you use coin flips or cardboard holders?
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Wondering what type of holder people use
Plastic flip?
OR
Cardboard 2x2?
Post why you use a certain holder
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Poll: Do you use coin flips or cardboard holders?
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For my ancient coins I use flips. For my world moderns and few u.s. coins left, cardboard flips.
I hate plastic flips for a ton of reasons.
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Saflips and cardboard holders
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.
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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.
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.
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I see advantages to both. But if the coin is special, I use a round capsule which is my favorite of all the options.
My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.
Both, depends what I am going to be doing with the coin.
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.
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I like the amount of info I can write on both sides of the cardboard. Peace Roy
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I like that! By the way.....where's the back 40?
I use plastic flips because they are easier - no staples.
They can be much safer if you use a heat seal.
Zero staples near my coins. Flips.
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Both, depending on destination--slabbing, or to keep raw in the collection.
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
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.
Dansco.
plastic flips don't cause staple scratches.
2x2s have never been a problem for me in reference to staples.
I use a “Max” flat-clinch stapler.
Vs a standard stapler
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.
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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.
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
What's the advantage of envelopes with cloth lined pouches? I have a few tokens I've purchased that came this way.
When I do use flips, I heat seal them to keep them in place.
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How do you heat seal them?
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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.
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.
Ha ha ha! What is the nasty?
This works nicely with Saflips.
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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?
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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
saflips only
Repetition of ignorance is ignorance raised to the power two.
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.
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.
Really? I have most of my coins in them. They said that they contained no PVC!
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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.
Couldn't vote since no poll options really fit. For raw coins, ~20% flips, ~30% cardboard, ~50% folders/albums.
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.
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Cardboard holders for me... and careful with the staples.
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Any toning on silver or gold. Disgusting, oh it makes me want to vomit.
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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.
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I use the cardboard ones that stick together without staples.
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There are ones that don’t need staples?
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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
My vote was in jest.
I use both.
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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).