Verdigris And Plastic Bags

Near as I can tell - and I've looked into it, although I'm hardly a chemist - food-rated bags will contain nothing like PVC or anything that will damage coins.

Quarantine ANY coin that is even slightly affected by verdigris. Verdigris has the capacity to spread from coin to coin.

No problem with clip lock plastic bags.
They are made from polyethylene, not PolyVynylChloride. There is no oily plasticizer softening agent to gas out of the plastic in polyethylene, nor is there ANY chlorine in polyethylene.

Regardless of if a plasic bag can do damage to your coins, or if whatever is on some will move to others, putting them in a plastic bag is not to smart. Even putting any coins loosely in a plastic bag is not a real good idea. You should always remember that one of the most important things about a coins value is condition. The more scratches, dents, dinks, etc per coin can do nothing but make them lower in value. Always attempt to keep all coins separate from each other and other items capable of doing damage. IF each coin is in a 2x2 or other item that separates them, then the addition of a plastic bag can only help.

Keep any coins with verdigris isolated, it will definitely spread from coin to coin. I like the zip lock freezer bags the best. The sandwich bags are too thin.

If I use Verdi-Care on my wheats, then will I be able to safely store them with my unaffected wheats afterward?

Are zip lock bags made for jewelry or beads made of the same stuff ziplock brand food bags are made of? I could see how since they arent made for food they could be less safe for coins but the smaller bags could be easier to deal with if I only have a few coins that are corroded, or the same date, etc

Thanks!

That's one thing that I have noticed browsing these forums is that a lot of old threads are locked, and you can't really scroll past a few pages of threads.

The only other forum I've used is for a specific vehicle I own and they do the complete opposite - new threads asking questions that have been answered many times are deleted or bombarded by a slew of links to 4 year old threads that they should have found through searching. There are even threads made just to show condensed lists of old threads that people are looking for.

So I thought I was doing the not-annoying thing, but I still don't know why resurrecting an old thread would be bad. Sorry

Few people who resurrect old threads have done enough homework to resurrect one which is spot-on their specific question. You did. That's the usual source of my irritation, folks who would bump a thread like this one to ask about Jeffersons instead of plastic bags.

Coin Community, unlike our peers, is specifically devoted to nurturing new collectors. Our more expert regulars know they have a duty to help teach, and I like to say that you're either here to learn, or to teach. Therefore, renewing old topics of conversation is not only expected but planned. We repeat the same old information with great regularity, by design. In many cases new information has become extant since the last discussion, and some of the old information might even be contraindicated by then.

So we encourage new threads even on tired old subjects, which is directly counter to the conduct of most online forums.

In addition, we have a rather remarkably efficient Search function (linked above), which if you're any kind of Forum regular you will know is a rare thing. It will search Archived topics, and this place is so efficiently indexed by Google that we've included a Google-specific keyed search engine as the first choice of method for your search.

Frankly, I'd prefer a brand new thread on just about anything if you can't find your topic going back 90 days. 80% or so of our readership never posts and aren't Members, nor are they interested in Searching.