PVC free albums

trout · February 12, 2013, 04:35:09 PM

How many of us are using PVC free 2x2 albums for our collections?
How many of us are using Dansco type albums?
How many of us are unsure of the PVC status of our coin storage systems?
I'm a nosey bugger ay :laugh2:

enworb · February 12, 2013, 05:59:09 PM

I use SAFLIPS which are PVC free but i store them in lighthouse pages which i suspect contain PVC. The pages get a pretty good workout so get replaced pretty often. I figure that the mylar of the SAFLIP is thick enough to be penetrated by PVC.

trout · February 12, 2013, 06:11:05 PM

Quote from: 'enworb' pid='8140' dateline='1360654149'I use SAFLIPS which are PVC free but i store them in lighthouse pages which i suspect contain PVC. The pages get a pretty good workout so get replaced pretty often. I figure that the mylar of the SAFLIP is thick enough to be penetrated by PVC.

If your saflips are not heat sealed the there is absolutely nothing to stop the PVC curse penetrating the gap at the top of the flip.
In the past I have used a smorgasbord of different coin storage systems and have damaged (inadvertently) a lot of really nice coins.
I now use non pvc pages in non pvc folders exclusively and have junked all my old pvc albums along with the dansco/Whitman push in and supreme units.
The push in jobbies were great with the mintage and mintmarks but by crikey they were awful hard on the coins.
The Supremes were a little better but not much.
There is a little bit of expense involved in using the proprietary storage systems but at the end of the day they WILL protect your coins and are a fantastic way of displaying your collection :good:

enworb · February 12, 2013, 06:30:06 PM

I really doubt the PVC would get in at the top and travel far enough in the reach the coin. I look at the coins so darn often i think i'll catch anything like that before it happens anyway.

Jaseee · February 12, 2013, 06:51:42 PM

I use SAFLIPS that i heat seal and put into a lighthouse mahogany box

trout · February 13, 2013, 06:24:07 AM

Quote from: 'Jaseee' pid='8145' dateline='1360657302'I use SAFLIPS that i heat seal and put into a lighthouse mahogany box

I recon when the saflip is sealed it is prety much bullet proof :good:

trout · February 13, 2013, 04:48:51 PM

I have just ordered 2 new PVC free albums and pages from my favorite supplier :good:
I have also ordered another bunch of self adhiesive 2x2's , I know the saflips are a better option for archiving coins, But I like to use the 2x2's and write on them.
They also look a lot better in the albums than the saflips and I always store my albums flat.

I am waiting for summer to end so that I can have a bonfire and burn all my pvc stuff.
I have a few dansco and whitman albums if anyone of you mob want them ( You pay the freight) I have no further use for them and would be a waste just to burn them.

The albums are gone, matty way way to quick for you mob :laugh2: :dance2:

Mister T · February 14, 2013, 09:53:45 PM

I've made the PVC mistake before so I'm sure I'm using PVC-free stuff now.

robbiegal · April 27, 2013, 08:36:28 PM

well I have spent most of this week removing my coins from my numis albums - but I will say that they still looked quite ok and that is after very many years of storage in them
now they are in flips or little bags

anyways, I have a group of cute decimals that I obtained years ago in PVC albums
like most coins that I pick up in old pvc album pages, they are ruined
but I kept them for the colours
I took some snaps for examples of just what PVC does to your collection - the original owner put all the coins into th pvc coins pages immediately after the purchase of his decimal rolls and this is what most of the coins looked like after decades in the pvc pages

here goes

hers the oldest of the lot
the rev of a 1966 two cents
the pvc has left it's mark on the high points of very nice coin

ausjack · April 27, 2013, 08:57:45 PM

It doesn't take too long Robbie as some of mine weren't even 10 years :cray:

robbiegal · April 27, 2013, 09:14:45 PM

I have spent so much on coin storage jack

one day I was leaving the mint with my big bag of 6 coin PVC pages albums and the coin designer Wojciech Pietranik got chatting to me outside
he was horrified that I was buying soft coin pages to put my coins directly into them
he recommended just storing them all in a fabric lined box

so I just put my old pre-decs in the albums
then I bought the numis albums and spent a small fortune on the pages
and also bought 2x2's for coins BUT had them stored in soft plastic coin pages

then I learnt about PP and started to get the safeflips and a couple of pp albums and the storage pages

now I don't bother with staples and cardboard 2x2's although I think they present the coins nicely

I also use eagle mounts and don't have any issues with corrosion on the coins that have been in them for quite some years now - though, the coins fall down and I reckon sometimes the mount scratches the coin

ausjack · April 27, 2013, 10:25:39 PM

I hear ya Robbie, mate do I hear ya..the joys of finding the 4's and against's out by your self is fun and cheap

trout · April 27, 2013, 10:38:18 PM

I burnt ALL my Numis albums a and gave away all my dansco push in jobbies.
these buggers cost me quite a few quid, But I feel so much better knowing my coins wont be damaged or infected with PVC.
My new option hasn't been cheap but I am more than happy with it .
:wavemulticolor:

ausjack · April 27, 2013, 10:41:54 PM

Good ole PP comes thru with the goods, might have to get some to try :good:

robbiegal · April 27, 2013, 11:09:15 PM

hey young jack

2 more posts and I'm a big 50 +0
I didn't know that

thanks!

I have noticed that my handle has me listed as a 'senior member'
at my age, well ..... nah it's not a compliment!! ha ha

yeah I shudder to think how money I've spent on coin storage
but I did have a load of flips and pages here so it has been easy enough to unpack the numis albums (ex bleeding fingers) and to pop most into the flips and slot them into the coin pages

in fact I just finished placing all of my coin albums in my coin book case and I think it all looks very orderly
next i'll hit the MYO's and all that other decimal stuff that I have dotted around the place in boxes, tins and so on!

for some who says she's not a decimal collector - well today has been a bit of an eye opener - packed away about 150 decimals from my numis albums and added them to my original decimal album - it was then too fat, so now I have 2 decimal albums

now I just need to get more non PVC albums ... it's never ending but a part of the fun, I think

I needed to do this big sorting job and am pleased that I've done it and with good advice from forum members basing their suggestions on their own experiences