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Strong smell 100 2 by 2 mylar 5 cent cardboard
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Just received these today and they have a strong odour. I know they have no PVC what could cause that type of smell?
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Bundle of 100
Hole size 22 mm
Will fit United States or Canadian Nickels, 5 Cent coins
These holders are constructed of high quality, heavy duty brilliant white board with mylar windows. When placed in these holders, coins are visible from either side as well as completely protected.
Lined with archival safe crystal clear Mylar plastic which is chemically inert and moisture resistant
Inexpensive way to store, display, & protect your coins.
Simply fold in half and staple shut for your coin to be visible from both sides.
Probably just from the cardboard, nothing to worry about.
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Thanks I have not purchased any in years so I guess my older ones had time to get rid of that smell.
Just make sure to clear the cardboard dust from the inside of the Mylar windows.
If they came from the east coast they might have been stored in a basement, Keep an eye out for mold........
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It could be from the glue used to attach the mylar to the cardboard or the rubber-band which has sulfur.
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Good point although I never knew mold only existed on the east coast. Did you buy them from a private individual or from a coin supply company?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
If they have a "strong odor" that means to me that something is off-gassing. Without knowing what that is you run the risk of it contaminating any coins placed inside. Perhaps the best remedy is to separate them individually for a short time and see if the odor dissipates.
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I guess the key question is, what is the odor? What does it smell like?
If it smells like a new stack of 2x2s then that's normal.
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Left them out last night the smell has reduced by a lot but with a stack of 100 if you split them they still have that smell. I will stack them in groups of 10. I will just mixed them up like a deck of cards over the next few days in those groups of 10.
Could just be from where they were kept as they normally shouldn't have an odor. Long ago at the time of the AOL coin boards I bought some Peace dollars from a seller and they stank strongly of cigarette smoke. Gross for sure.
It has that new type smell. I guess when 100 are together in a plastic package and sealed the smell does not go away.
I am not worried they are mylar just curious is all.
As long as they don't smell like cigarette smoke they should be good to go after exposure to fresh air.
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Just put them on 2 glass plates and set them beside one of my home's windows. Let the air circulate with the nice breeze I have in my hometown today. Will shuffle them every hour till the smell is gone.
All is good the smell went away a few days after I received them just had to separate them and let them air our.
I thought maybe the smell might of eminated from the packing material used. Sometimes items I had shipped to me,upon opening, had an odd smell.
When I was working at the coin shop we once got in a shipment of boxed 2x2's that had a strong petroleum odor. I called the supplier and he said that maybe the container that brought them from China had something in it that was leaking. I sent them back and he replaced them.
It was just a new smell like when you buy a new car it went away. Probably the cardboard. I don't buy many this was my first ever 100 pack so maybe this is how the always smell.