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I was on Amazon and saw a book that included plastic sleeves with little envelope pockets, I was wondering if anyone used or uses them and how well it stored coins or if there is anything I should be worried about using them? Or if anyone has a better way to store coins to keep them from getting damaged

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You need to be careful with albums as some have PVCs which will damage coins over long-term storage. Avoid the low end dark blue colored albums as from my experience they contain PVCs. Both Dansco and Whitman make higher end albums for coins, which are safe. Lighthouse also makes various coin albums that are good. If in doubt, you can always post a picture and people on here can weigh in.

A lot of people use 2x2s that are then put into pages in three ring binders, which are generally safe.
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Can you post the Amazon link? I am not sure what you are describing, but I have my suspicions.

For the record I use Dansco albums. I also have Dansco albums that can hold 2x2s (for all the miscellaneous, mostly foreign coins).
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 Posted 06/29/2023  4:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Scoobynscrappy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This was the product I was looking at
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I was way off. I was thinking more like the old Harco albums.

Those should be fine. Just verify the pages are not PVC (vinyl). Most of the better ones are not.
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Thanks for the advice @ Jbuck
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A few pointers:
Three ring binders should be stored flat, not with spline vertical. A binder with lots of heavy coins will put to much pressure on the pages ring holes.

Drop a heavy binder and the weight will open the rings, spilling its contents over the floor. I know because it happened to me.

Don't put your coins directly in the pocket. The coin will fall out quite easily. Not sure how a capsule might work.


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A lot of people use 2x2s that are then put into pages in three ring binders, which are generally safe.


I also put the coin in a 2x2. However, if you staple the 2x2 ensure the back side bends firmly and completely into the 2x2. You don't want a staple sticking up and scratching other coins.
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It looks like that Amazon listing includes a set of 300 mixed-size 2x2s, as well as the album pages to put the 2x2s in.

That's fine, so long as the coins you want to house are the sizes which they've supplied. The picture, at least, shows a range of sizes from dime to silver dollar sized. You'll need to buy extra 2x2s if you're wanting to use all the album pages just to house all of your Lincoln pennies, for example.

These are made-in-China generics, both the pages and 2x2s, which is why they're so cheap, so the quality may be variable.

For me personally, when buying coin album pages for 2x2s, I always go to a photography supply store and buy the pages they make for 2x2 photographic slides; slides are the same size as 2x2 coin holders, and slide album pages tend to be made of much higher quality, more archival plastic than the people who make "coin album pages" tend to use. Vue-All, from PrintFile, has been my go-to brand for decades. And yes, I have to import them to Australia from America, now that my local photography supply store has gone out of business - I think they're worth it. Here's a pack of 25 pages for US$8.95; at 20 coins per page (the same as the Amazon pages), that's room for 500 coins. You'll need to buy the 2x2s separately from elsewhere; I normally just go down to my local coin dealer and pick and choose the sizes I want at that moment.

PrintFile also sells these excellent archival 3-ring binder-boxes to put the pages in. These binders are excellent for coin collectors in several ways: they're not airtight but they are fully enclosed, so no dust gets in; they're easily stored sideways (ring-side-up) so there's less drag from heavy album pages pulling on the rings, and best of all, you can stack them up on top of each other if you need to, and not have to worry about the coins in the albums on the bottom of the stack getting squeezed by the weight of the coins on top (which can cause solvent transfer between the 2x2s and the album pages, making the 2x2s stick inside the album pages).
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Novel way to store coins!

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