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I was reading another post and someone mentioned not to store your coins in any PVC holder. I own a Mercury dime set from 1916 to 1945. It is made of plexiglass. I was wondering if this is OK and why you cannot store coins in a PVC holder. Thanks,

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I know that years ago there were some coin flips that contained PVC. These would turn you coins green. Get like a green substance on them, that if left long enough was very hard to get off. As far as my own personal experience I have not seen any of those flips being sold new in about 20 years. But there may be some still around. I have seen different type coins displayed in plexiglass but have not heard if they to had a problem.
If I remember right PVC stands for Poly Vinyl Chloride.
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PVC in it's "natural" state is hard, brittle and translucent. It's also cheap, which is why people used it. But to make it soft, pliable and transparent (like you often find in cheap coin album pages) they have to add plasticizers. It's these plasticizers that degrade over time, leaving hydrochloric acid behind. This acid eats away at any coins placed inside them, creating the classic "PVC green slime film" you see on coins left in such albums for too long.

The green slime can be washed off with acetone, but the damage has been done - a lustrous or mirror-proof coin will appear hazed, a bright copper coin will darken, and so forth.

Plexiglass, also known as polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), lucite, acrylic glass, and various other trade names, should be perfectly safe, at least for the short and medium term. PMMA, or a similar substance, is what the TPGs use when they slab coins.
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 Posted 12/07/2009  6:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wornslick to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the info. Here is a pic of the holder. Sorry about the pic being a little blurry.

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When it comes to any type of plastic if your not sure the simplist method it to contact the manufacturer. Many people just guess what something may or may not really be and the results too are sometimes just guesswork. What you call Plexiglass may be almost anything.
Does it state Plexiglass anywhere on that item? Is there a manufacture's name anywhere? If you could find the name of the manufacturer, contact them, via pnone if possible. Then naturally do as they all do today and state "This conversation may be recorded for your safety". Then ask about your product as to the safety of your coins. I have an old plexiglass holder for a type set and found who made it and called them. There is a really large variety of all plastic products so it always is safer and smarter to contact the people that really know.
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