"Copysafe" PVC Coin Sleeves

Why bother being a guinea pig? I only go with proven archival holders for my own coins. As long as you are buying from a known entity or direct, you will be sure you get what you pay for and no chance of "fake" counterfeit products. Stick to the top sellers like Brooklyn Coin & Stamp, Wizard Supply, Lighthouse, Cowens, Safe-T-Flip, Capitol Plastics, Dansco, Intercept, etc.

PVC in its "raw" or "pure" state is chemically stable, but is brittle and translucent. To make it soft, flexible and transparent - qualities that you kind of need for a coin album - they have to add plasticizers (usually phthalic acid diesters). It's the plasticizers, rather than the PVC itself, that causes trouble with coins. It's also the plasticizers that cause the distinctive "PVC smell".

So, it's entirely possible to have a "PVC-free" coin album page that's nevertheless stuffed full of plasticizers (so is just as dangerous to coins as an actual PVC album page). But it's not possible to have a PVC album page that doesn't have the plasticizers. For a coin collector, there is no such thing as "safe PVC".

For the curious, the OP is in Australia, and (I'm guessing) is quoting from the sales page of Australian supplier VST. See this link.

If it's just a typo and they really meant to say "PVC-free", then VST really ought to proofread their marketing blurb. Or at least get some coin collectors to check it. They're never going to make sales while they proudly boast that their albums are made of PVC.

The bags are reasonably safe for medium-term storage; the main problem with them is that (most of them, anyway) have little airholes in them. This lets the bags get sealed up but you're still able to squeeze surplus air out of them, which is great when handling the bags at the bank, but not so great if the goal is to preserve the quality of the coins.

This in effect means that, while you can use these bags, you need to keep the bags in a larger more airtight container like a plastic box or a larger "zip-lock" bag.

Sorry to be to an old thread but I was just recently trying to figure out if my files from the Royal Australian Mint were safe to use sent them an email and they informed me they checked with the supplier and they had been informed that the coin folders they use are Copysafe PVC and then guaranteed that they couldn't in any way harm my coins.

At the very least now if they do damage my coins I have proof they are liable haha

I know this thread is older but I thought I'd hop on as well.
I tried to find information on this since I ended up buying those pages without realising they claimed that they are 'copy-safe' PVC. So I've got some, and I have mixed feelings.
It feels like PVC holding it. And it looks like PVC and smells like it too. But the fact that the Royal Australian Mint also claims to use these is putting my mind at ease for the minute.
In future I think I'm going to get some new ones, these are the wrong size for what I wanted anyway. But I'll risk it in the short term I guess. Just kicking myself for not checking these close enough!

(Also hi! This is my first post here after lurking for a little while!)