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Pillar of the Community
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but do they contain PVC ? As far as I know if it's safe for food it should be safe for coins, I don't believe that PVC is used in food containers. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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As far as I know if it's safe for food it should be safe for coins Makes sense with regards to storage, but this piece of wisdom isn't applicable everywhere. I guarantee silver makes a terrible spaghetti sauce. |
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I guarantee silver makes a terrible spaghetti sauce.  |
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I got another one. This time I was shopping the garage sales and found a box of pesos. I paid the asking price but got a pair of pruning shears thrown in. The problem was the lid had a liner that interfered whenever I tried to put it on the box.  So I turned it upside down and found it fit my 2x2s very nicely.  When I went to put the bottom on the top, I discovered something.  It does smell better than the margarine box. |
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Nice peso stash!  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Canada
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Any plastics used to store food in should be safe to store coins in, at least from a contamination perspective. There are rules about this. "Food grade plastic" is the term.
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Nice find, Chute72. |
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Canada
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I found storage boxes at Walmart 4 rows |
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United States
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I have been using a craft box--the kind with compartments--to sort my coin jar coins by date and type. I don't plan to use it for long term storage, but what does it mean if it has PP under the recycle triangle? I was looking at one of these for longer term storage and I'm pretty sure the removable boxes are the same kind of plastic. http://www.target.com/p/creative-op...gclsrc=aw.ds |
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United States
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Also, some of my uncle's Buffalo nickels have been kept in a ziplock Baggie for decades, and some of his other coins are in a plastic cigarette case. It probably doesn't matter much, as neither set of coins is particularly exciting--only a few of the buffs still have dates, and the cig case coins are all pretty much junk silver, |
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PP-code is Polypropylene.  |
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