Only took me 8 years to realize my coin albums were damaging the edges

Found a 1917 mercury dime with green residue stuck to the rim and that's when I finally looked up PVC damage in old flips.

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michael_coleman1012d ago

Is it really that bad though? I've got old albums that have been sitting around for decades and the coins still look fine to me.

clark.alex12d ago

Yeah I hear you, but give it another ten or fifteen years maybe

mila_campbell2512d ago

and honestly @clark.alex you might be onto something with that timeline, even pvc damage takes its sweet time to show up. i swapped out a whole binder of wheat cents last month and half of them had that sticky green gunk on the rims but i just shrugged and figured "well they're only worth a few cents each anyway." guess i'm the type to learn the hard way after i've already messed things up, like the time i tried to "clean" a 1909 vdb with vinegar... yeah we don't talk about that.