Yes its old PVC, there is a rash of low quality albums from China being sold on online trading sites like Trade Me, Temu, Ali and Ebay.
They have that soft plastic with rigid rounded edges. It cracks over time and also greens and gunges your coins, especially copper and bronze.
The albums are always cheap and usually have a padded cover. Often they will have Engrish names like “240PC Quality Coin Bok” “Very best collection folder” “Chung shin coin booke” etc.
AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!
Polyurethane/Urethane is also imitation leather (Plasticised leather) used in cheap wallets and shoes made in Chinese factories by slaves.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Yes its old PVC, there is a rash of low quality albums from China being sold on online trading sites like Trade Me, Temu, Ali and Ebay.
They have that soft plastic with rigid rounded edges. It cracks over time and also greens and gunges your coins, especially copper and bronze.
The albums are always cheap and usually have a padded cover. Often they will have Engrish names like “240PC Quality Coin Bok” “Very best collection folder” “Chung shin coin booke” etc.
AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!
Polyurethane/Urethane is also imitation leather (Plasticised leather) used in cheap wallets and shoes made in Chinese factories by slaves.
Okay, that is unfortunate to hear.
Most of a Japanese coin album brand named Tage/Teji has all of their modern Showa/Heisei/Reiwa albums listed as Vinyl Urethane but not whether the cover or slides are made out of the material.
Found it under Tae Hsi - looks okay actually - just the name urethane floored me, as Polyurethane is the cheap Chinese crap. This album looks like one of those Whitman type ones with the slide in pages. They are good for type sets, but not for complete date runs and expensive.
All my coins are Saflips and Mylar pages by BCW and I am not even 100% confident about those. Storing coins, particularly high grade is difficult to say the least.
Still I would never use any Chinese made rubbish called “Coin Book” I found one Amazon ad for this dreadful thing - Mudor complete with fake American eagle design and pictures showing fake American coins made by Chinese fake mints.
These are exactly the things I rant about, they claim its PVC free, but it will still stain and discolour over the years and likely crack.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
The compound on it's own will most likely do nothing to your coins and I would think it is used either as the Cover matrix or even just a coating for faux leather style material. The problematic stuff are often the additives of which we obviously don't know anything about. But if they are made from a company specialized in collecting I would think they would use the right ones.
Hello, I was hoping to ask about the safety of using a coin album that lists it's material being “Vinyl Urethane”.
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Sorry, but I see this error too often. 😇
Idolenz
The compound on it's own will most likely do nothing to your coins and I would think it is used either as the Cover matrix or even just a coating for faux leather style material.
You dropped your batch officer 😙 But yeah, that's why I don't like to type on a phone. I get tired from backtracking false auto-corrects and I often just hit send.
You dropped your batch officer 😙 But yeah, that's why I don't like to type on a phone. I get tired from backtracking false auto-corrects and I often just hit send.
I'll never deny I am one, but I totally agree with you on the phone part. I write a post in 2 minutes, and then I spend like 15 minutes to edit all the errors. Somehow a few slips through a little now and then. I have turned off autoincorrect, so I often press ‘b’ or ‘n’ instead of space, and ‘p’ instead of ‘o’, etc. Errors like that I never correct, but the its/it's and there/their/they're really bugs me. 😇
I wish Whitman have foreign coins albums like these
I know, it is very infuriating knowing that foreign coin album manufacturers DO exist but often have regional exclusive sales & distributio locked in their home countries.
A lot of my spelling and grammar mistakes come from the fact I have fat fingers and keyboards are designed for svelte fingered 40kg women, not 125kg men. The key width on my keyboard is 14mm, my fingers are on average 21mm, so either I press the wrong key or two keys at once.
It happens, unless I am working in data entry (Which I am not), I don't care. Plus with American spelling dominant on the internet - I use British spellings as I live in the British Commonwealth and that is what we use here. I am often isolated by the Americanos for spelling words wrong on other forae as many Americans can not see the world beyond the USA.
I give up doing much typing on phones, keys are 5mm wide and often I make colossal mistakes. I am sure its phone keyboard sizes that led to the text speak phenomenon and along with annoying auto correct spelling programmes (Always set to Yank English) and the fact you need degrees in engineering and cryptology to turn off.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Found it under Tae Hsi - looks okay actually - just the name urethane floored me, as Polyurethane is the cheap Chinese crap. This album looks like one of those Whitman type ones with the slide in pages. They are good for type sets, but not for complete date runs and expensive.
All my coins are Saflips and Mylar pages by BCW and I am not even 100% confident about those. Storing coins, particularly high grade is difficult to say the least.
Still I would never use any Chinese made rubbish called “Coin Book” I found one Amazon ad for this dreadful thing - Mudor complete with fake American eagle design and pictures showing fake American coins made by Chinese fake mints.
These are exactly the things I rant about, they claim its PVC free, but it will still stain and discolour over the years and likely crack.
So many names for one brand..
"Tage"
“Teji”
"Tae Hsi"
These must all be different translations for one or more words for their company name.
Based on your & Idolenz opinions they seem to be safe, so I think I will end up buying one of each in the future as they have slots that are not covered by a type set I already own that ends around 1987.
The compound on it's own will most likely do nothing to your coins and I would think it is used either as the Cover matrix or even just a coating for faux leather style material. The problematic stuff are often the additives of which we obviously don't know anything about. But if they are made from a company specialized in collecting I would think they would use the right ones.
I think you are right, according to their company website collemo they have been in buisness since 1909 handmaking stationary & hobbyist products for Japanese hobby enthusiasts.
If a company still makes their album by hand I do not think they would use harmful materials.
A lot of my spelling and grammar mistakes come from the fact I have fat fingers and keyboards are designed for svelte fingered 40kg women, not 125kg men. The key width on my keyboard is 14mm, my fingers are on average 21mm, so either I press the wrong key or two keys at once.
Hear, hear! I really miss the keyoads on the mobile phones. Then I could write SMS's without even looking at the phone. Now I'm all focused when I'm writing, and still makes hundreds of errors – per word! 😅
