Coin album sleeves

[coingirl 0]

Hi, I'm new to coin collecting and I've been using these coin sleeves to keep my coins.

I've recently read about PVC leaving coins sticky, and in fact my coins do now feel sticky, however a friend (non-coin collector) seemed to think they banned PVC in the 90's. Please can someone tell me whether these are made with PVC and whether they're coin proof?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Coin-Album-leaves-63...id=p3911.c0.m14

Does anyone have any better suggestion if they're not? I need something cheap that holds a lot of coins. I tried the OPTIMA range but they're so small and expensive.

I don't collect expensive coins, I just collect lots of coins from different countries including pre-decimal British coins.

Also where can I buy coins other than ebay? I want a 1/2 cent from Malaya but can't find one anywhere, including internation/US ebay.

Thanks in advance

[Chris Perkins 228]

I take it you've seen the coins for sale on predecimal.com? Nothing from Malaya though.

And the pages for the SAFE deluxe album which are more expensive but don't contain PVC? They are £5 per 3, but I'll make them a bit cheaper if you want a lot.

Those cheap pages on ebay probably do contain PVC. PVC was never banned in relation to coin pages, but the better companies stopped using it when they realised that it makes coins sweat. I'm sure they still use it by the ton in China to make cheap coin pages!

[coingirl 0]

Thanks Chris, I've just spotted the coins for sale on pre-decimal - thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I will have a think about the SAFE coin sleeves as I may need quite a few if I was to change over...

Wow I didn't realise you'd contributed to so many coin books! I have the collectors coins GB in front of me, so it's a little surreal to speak to the person who writes it - well on the web anyway. I hope I know as much as you in a few years or decades!

[Chris Perkins 228]

Ooo, a young female fan :blush:. Can't have enough of those!

I've got about 200 coins here that are worthy of the website but aren't listed yet, so check back every so often. Anything that is newly added will be shown in date order from here:

http://www.predecimal.com/products_new.php

[coingirl 0]

It's probably the cute dog photo that does it

[Chris Perkins 228]

It's a cow! In real life though, I do have puppy-dog eyes!

[coingirl 0]

It's a cow! In real life though, I do have puppy-dog eyes!

OMG! I'm so embarrassed because it looks 100% like a cow now I've looked at it properly! I just glanced at it and it looked like the nose of a dalmation or something! Blonde moment Oooops!!!

[coingirl 0]

I emailed the person on ebay and this is the response:

"Hi there my suppliers have rung me back and told me the leaves are vinyl and will contain pvc but again added they have never had complaints"

So I guess they're no good?

[Chris Perkins 228]

No not good at all.

After a few years they'll get sticky (or even now as you say). After a few more you'll get verdigris on the base metal and green colouring on the silver, in a worse case scenario. He may not have had complaints, but does he have any customers that have been using his pages for 5+ years?