Can Anyone Tell Me What Brand Of 2x2 This Is? (One On The Left)

I now always buy 2x2's in person because I had that problem like you are ordering in the mail. The ones I do not like had a thicker cardboard and not as clear window. I like a clear window and thin cardboard.
John1

Buy them from your local dealer Or at a coin show when they crank up again..

Feel the merchandise before parting with your money.

I recently bought carboard 2x2's from Wizard . I believe the brand was Cowen . Like you I didn't like them , when I folded them over onto a coin many of them did not meet evenly on the bottom of the 2x2 . I'm not sure the brand of the thinner ones that Wizard carries but the one in your photo on the left side , the cellophane seems to be not stretched flat across the cardboard which would jeopardize the appearance of the coin . So I would say there are pros and cons in most brands .

I agree—perhaps precipitated by the race to the bottom on price.

meh, it's a 2x2, I got guardhouse and they aren't terrible, from a company on Amazon called Flizzards, the "fold" is decent when folded over, front and back windows line up pretty well.plastic feel good also.

Truth be told, no supplier online wants to show you the "other" side of the 2x2 to try and determine, just the white side which all looks the same in the generic pictures.
I think they all bait and switch and send whatever they happen to have gotten, there certainly wasn't any kind of fancy "guardhouse" packaging the bundles came in. loose shrink wrap with their own printed paper label inside. they were decent though, no complaints I can remember off hand.

I picked up some others from Hobby Lobby in a pinch, fancy packaging bubble cardboard pegboard packaging, sold as "Entrust Coin Supplies" those were trash, hard to fold and wouldn't fold right, thick foggy plastic, looked a lot like your picture on the right as far as the brown side is concerned.

what size is that, nickel? quarter? I want to verify the ones I bought, make sure my memory is 100% and get back to you.
maybe with a picture to compare. I think they were around $7.00 for 100 pieces..., 50 pieces around $5.00, cheaper the more you buy at once. LOL like 500 pieces was just under $20 I think. but I tink they were decent and folded well and the plastic window didn't feel funky like a kitchen greased balloon.


Also, doing a little research, I'm noticing Cowen, Whitman and Entrust, are all the same exact 2x2s in different packaging. some aren't even entirely cut along the fold line in the pictures which means they will likely fold crooked.

Not bashing any of these companies just noticing the common link of the product they all seem to share the same manufacturing supply.

I'm not trying to be mean or sarcastic, but at what point did "cheapest" become equated to better quality?

I agree with others, it's always best to purchase items in person if there exists the potential for quality variance among options.

I'm back. These are the guardhouse ones I got from Amazon. Guardhouse holders sells them even cheaper on their own website directly by the same name like $3.50 per 100 piece packs or something like that. They sell them rubber banded in stacks though it appears. Place I bought them from was more expensive and like I said they shrink wrapped it and put in their own piece of paper for advertising. With Amazon I didn't have shipping or tax, with guardhouse it appears I would even if I bought a case of 5000. I played with the site, tax yes. As far as shipping if you buy 3 or more, 100 piece 2x2 packs it free FedEx ground shipping.

In the 2nd picture the bottom doesn't exactly line up, one side is minutely longer than the other but the windows line up right. It's really my only complaint about these, that I want the longer side as the front to write on and have the little gap seam on the back side. It's a small peave.








I hope this helps. It seems yours is a brown cardboard on the interior, these guardhouse ones are white on both sides but otherwise very similar. I'd recommend these, I'd definitely buy them again as the best I've tried.

@SamCoin: I was simply reacting to your statement in which you said you purchased "the cheapest flips" and were then surprised by their quality.