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Valued Member
Brazil
117 Posts |
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to improve conservation and give beautiful displays for my coin so I ask for your help: what is your favourite coin supplies brand?
I've seen around Lighthouse (Leuchtturm), BCW and CoinSupplyPlanet. I would like to know about coin albuns, sleeves, coin holders.
Your opinion is very important to me.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
7096 Posts |
I have bought many different types of albums and have gotten rid of them all. I now exclusively use "Purple Penny" albums. They are TOTALLY PVC free and look good as well. At less than $50 per album with 10 20 coin pages they are great value and are an archive quality item to boot  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
7096 Posts |
Just googled it and came up with this  Leatherette is a form of artificial leather, usually made by covering a fabric base with plastic. The fabric can be made of a natural or a synthetic fibre which is then covered with a soft PVC layer. Here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_leatherEdited by trout1105
07/22/2013 12:28 am
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Valued Member
 Brazil
117 Posts |
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Leatherette is a form of artificial leather, usually made by covering a fabric base with plastic. The fabric can be made of a natural or a synthetic fibre which is then covered with a soft PVC layer.
trout1105, and I was thinking "hey that's good, this is made of leatherette!", thanks for the info, my friend. |
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Valued Member
Brazil
117 Posts |
I was looking at Purple Penny website, it seems very good material, thanks trout1105. I want to enhance my collection and so, my coins' care and this brand emphasizes so much PVC Free.
I would like to hear everyone's opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2882 Posts |
I only use:
A mahogany cabinet - holds over 1,100 coins - only for my best stuff
Lighthouse trays for my roman denarii and some lesser silver
Acid free envelopes for everything else
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Valued Member
Brazil
117 Posts |
Interesting, Bacchus2, don't you have a need for an album? Do you use to expose your coins for friends, coin shows?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2882 Posts |
No - I don't have an album - I just don't really like that method of storage. I'd take a cabinet every time. There is nothing like just bringing out a tray of coins and being able to handle them with minimum effort. Only a very, very few friends know I have them - so only they have seen them. My problem is I have 7,000+ coins so envelopes are really the only way to effectively store the vast bulk of them. Many are "lesser" coins from my childhood - but I still want to keep them - they are like old friends I do have some on "show" through my webpages http://www.diadumenian.com/Congress...princes.htmlThat should give you an idea - only of one particular niche though. What I do like about this is I find it a brillient way of cataloguing them - very flexible - basicially I put what I want on there as as I'm really more interested in the people behind the coins - I can do that via this method too. I have posted a few pictures of the trays elsewhere in the forum - I can't quite remember where though :) |
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Valued Member
Brazil
117 Posts |
Very nice way to display and store your coins. I'm still starting. I have about 500 coins. Have a long way to go :)
Mahogany cabinet is Lighthouse too?
Thanks again, Bacchus2
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Trout I think the Lighthouse and Renniks leatherette albums aren't made with PVC because I have my best coins stored in 2x2s in the album but also outside there are raw coins which have not discoloured at all anyway I think most of the suppliers would have learnt from the mistakes with the pvc in old albums especially a company as big as Lighthouse.
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Moderator
 United States
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Here is the US, I use Dansco albums. I had been a Whitman folder person from the start, but decided to change to albums. Whitman albums had coin varieties not in my collection, and Dansco albums fit better with what/how I was collecting.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Mahogany cabinet is Lighthouse too? No - it was hand crafted - I assume about a century ago - I got it second hand so I don't really know. Here in the UK you see them the odd time at auctions, it seems to have been the thing to have back then. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Trout I am relatively sure they would use organic compounds for the leatherette but anyway I will send of an email to make sure. Otherwise the Polypropylene used in those albums you were talking about arn't as safe as you thought when I happened upon this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyp...#Degradation which when it is exposed to sunlight it decomposes to form carboxylic acid |
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Valued Member
Brazil
117 Posts |
I think any type of plastic, pvc, pp, or someone else is not 100% safe for long-term storage.
I would like to use PVC albuns till my collection turn big and more important, than it would be the time for a cabinet or slabs.
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Valued Member
Brazil
117 Posts |
Hey trout1105, is Purple Penny albums compatible with BCW coin pages? Thanks!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have well over 100 Albums. I get them all free from dealers I know. Most are Whitman since I started with Whitman a long, long time ago. However, since so many that I've received lately are Dansco, I use them. Many others such as Harris or Littleton or others I give away. When I get Folders, I accept them if free but then just give them away too.
Not sure what things are like by you, but around where I live, displaying coins is an open invitation to theft. Odd how many people say they like Dansco due to them looking so richy. Then just hide them away.
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08/29/2013 11:04 am
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