Guardhouse 2x2 Double Pocket Vinyl Protective Coin Flips - Box of 1000

Buy Guardhouse 2x2 Double Pocket Vinyl Protective Coin Flips - Box of 1000

The Professional Standard for Bulk Coin Archiving and Protection

Guardhouse 2x2 Double Pocket Flips are the most widely recognized product in the industry among serious collectors, dealers, and numismatists who do business in bulk coins because of its safety, efficiency and low cost in the long term. A professional-grade archival option, this bulk box of 1,000 flips protects all of the coins in your collection, both new purchases and existing inventory, against environmental risks and the potential of physical harm. Designed to be easy to read, long lasting and totally safe, these flips are the ideal device to keep your investments in good working condition and at a great price.

Engineered to be Safe: The Facts about Unplasticized Vinyl

Chemical stability of holder is the most important consideration in long term coin storage. Over the years, collectors have cried foul over the ravaging effects of what has become known as the dreaded PVC damage, a green sticky substance that oozes out of ordinary soft vinyl containers and long term corrosion and etching into the coin surface. The damage is not effected by the vinyl (PVC) itself, but by chemical additives known as plasticizers or softeners and these are used to soften standard vinyl.

Guardhouse flips are altogether different. They are made of unplasticized polyvinyl chloride (uPVC) which is rigid, non-reactive and extremely stable and has little or no softening agents. This important difference implies that the PVC damaging agents are not present, so these flips represent an archivally safe option in terms of long-term storage of your collection. You will be giving your coins a safe place to be by using Guardhouse unplasticized flips instead of being exposed to the danger that damaging chemical reactions can take place.

Superior Construction for Uncompromised Protection

A Guardhouse flip is built to the collector with all of its components being thought through with both durable security and everyday usefulness in mind.

• Heavy-Duty 7mil Thickness: Thicker than normal thin flops at 7 mil, these flips are about 20% thicker than flimsy standard flips. Such additional thickness increases rigidity and durability of the coins, and coins are not bent or damaged by impacts during handling, shipping and storage.
• Double-Polished to be Clear as Crystal: Every flip is double-polished so that only a glass with superior optical clarity can be obtained. This means that there is no hindrance to viewing your coin, obverse and reverse, that has a pure, clear view giving nothing being cloudy or hazy as can happen with other archival materials, such as Mylar.
• Pre-Separated Rounded Corners: Rounded corners and efficiency remain the main priorities when it comes to handling lots of coins. Guardhouse flips are supplied with the portion already flips, therefore they do not require the time-consuming and burdensome process of tearing. The corners are rounded and this is a very considerate design feature, as they eliminate the sharp edges that poke and cut hands and damage neighboring flips and storage boxes.
• Flexible Double-Pocket: Practical double-pocket design is preferred by organized collectors. The coin is held in one pocket and a 2x2 paper insert fits well in the other. This enables you to put in detailed attribution details like date, mint mark, grade, and provenance without anybody ever touching the paper to the coin not allowing any touching which destroys the coin, and not destroying the historical data about the coin.

When to Choose Flips Over Capsules

Although hard plastic capsules provide the safest storage available on a per-coin basis when dealing with high-value pieces or proofs, flips have a unique role to play in a complete storage plan. The 2x2 guardhouse flips are preferable when:

• Bulk Processing: The fast and efficient sorting, attributing and storing of large quantities of coins, e.g. dealer inventories, investment bullion or newly acquired collections.
• High-density storage: Safes and storage boxes have a maximum holding capacity so the flips would be more suitable than capsules or slabs since they occupy much less space.
• Cost-effective Preservation: Safe (archivally quality) storage of a whole collection at a small percentage of the cost of individual capsules.
• Grading Service Submission: submitting coins to third party grading services such as PCGS, NGC, in a safe, standard, easily handled manner by the graders.
• Mid-Grade Collectibles: Acquiring circulated and un-circulated coins that have a numismatic value yet do not warrant the cost and space use necessitated in encapsulating an item with a hard capsule.