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Mylar, storage and questions
Well since I am not sure which--Leaddog or Marcus-- I will be stopping at the very store that I bought them from after work--they should have the same batch because I am pretty sure I'm just about the only guy who buys them there. But let me tell you--there was no way I was about to put anything in those--they were reallly nasty smelling. So anyhow I stopped by my local mom'n'pop hobby store and started taking some deep whiffs of all kinds of coin stuff and this is what I found-- They did not have any coin holder pages that had the smell-- but they did have some large currency pages made by Edgar Marcus--about every 3 out of 10 smelled really strong of that plastic smell--just like what a beach ball smells like. I asked the store employee if he would put some rare paper currency inside those that had the strong smell and he said he sure wouldn't. I also smelled all of the other plastic pages I already have and I have one H.E. Harris that has the smell and 2 Leaddogs with it and no Marcus pages that smelled. Looks like it's just one of those things to be on the lookout for. None of these smelled anywhere near as strong as the new ones in the box at the store though so the new pages might just need to be kept out alone for a few days to sort-of air out a bit. I also smelled some Harris coin folders--those smelled just like new car smell. The rest of their albums at the store were all shrink-wrapped so I could not get a wiff of those. One really cheap-lookin SHQ map smelled like matches--so maybe that would be a nice one to get some tone on the coins? They also have some paper coin envelopes--no smell. All the plastic Whittman set holders did not have any funny smells and neither did the 2x2 100% mylar flips. Cointains--no smells whatsoever. I seem to remember a previous thread about this kind of thing--like it would make sense that some products like these might have a wrong mixture of chemicals or something like that. I know if you had some paper currency and they smelled like plastic you'd have a hard time selling them. I don't know if it would hurt them appearance-wise but that stench could hurt the value tremendously since you could not determine if a note was doctored if it stank like plastic. |
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