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Coin flips sent with ebay purchases

Does anyone know if this vendors coin flips are safe enough to store these coins I just received.

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    jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 32,008 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like PVC

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    Dug13Dug13 Posts: 234 ✭✭✭

    Never have purchased from them, but I would reach out to them first.

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    OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You may want to buy some Saflips from wizard or other coin supply vendor to have on hand. Then you won't have to worry about the sellers flips.
    I also recommend buying an assortment of cardboard 2x2s

    Member of the ANA since 1982
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    MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a general rule, the ones I've seen with rounded corners are problematic.

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    BaronVonBaughBaronVonBaugh Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:
    As a general rule, the ones I've seen with rounded corners are problematic.

    That has been my experience.

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    DelawareDoonsDelawareDoons Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They look like possibly guardhouse flips. If they are, you're fine.

    Just use the smell technique, thats what I do, generally.

    Professional Numismatist. "It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep... If they smell like shower curtains, then they are PVC... That is the test I have used. Cheers, RickO

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    Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,651 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Give em a little wash with high quality acetone and into a new safe flip. The coins are worth it and I have gotten into the habit of rinsing any new to me silver. 😉🦫🙀

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    derrybderryb Posts: 36,215 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 30, 2022 7:13AM

    good flips are stiff and brittle, bad flips are soft and bendable. Normally the flips pictured with the heat crimped edges are bad flips. Bad flips do not hurt temporary storage of coins such as for shipping.

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