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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I am a fan of airtites, and order them directly from airtites dot com. My favorite Maple setup is the (38mm) capsule with the black ring.  This is a picture of a 1965 dollar taken through one, showing the clarity of the capsule (with my iphone to boot):  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Dizzying! Very nice set up but I would hesitate myself to invest into storage of bullion coins to this extent.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
 United States
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I like the Air-Tite capsules as well. They offer nice protection from environmental issues and feel very solid (and round!) when examining each coin. My various SMLs are kept in them -- annual bullion issues, privy-marked issues, colorized issues, etc. They also fit nicely into standard 2x2 trays enabling viewing of 20+ coins at a time.
When you buy them in quantity, they can be purchased for less than $1 a piece -- a very reasonable investment to protect the coins in one's collection (bullion or otherwise). IMHO
Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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02/21/2012 10:40 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
862 Posts |
I've tried both lighthouse and air-tite, air-tite is much better, it's crystal clear, scratch-resistent, fits perfectly and it has surface like those panda coin capsule so it refect light better than plain surface
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have always used the air tight capsules. I have read in other posts..actually one in the last few days that the foam in some of the square capsules (CAN not will) eventually cause black spots on the coins. Especially silver maples since they tend to be suseptable to black and milk spots. Hearsay...but it's what I know. I havent had a problem with any coin thus far ( knock on wood ) with anything going wrong with my maples. I just like the exact fit of the round air tights. I like that it is just my coin and next to no air inside....nothing else! CHEERS!
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Valued Member
Canada
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I also use Airtites to store my SMLs, but my question is now what to store/display the Airtited SMLs in? I see 1cent has some kind of tray (along with a lot more SMLs than I have  ), what do the rest of you do to store or display them? Right now, mine are loose in a drawer, but I've been thinking lately about some better way to store and display them. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
862 Posts |
lighthouse trays are a good and cheap solution for displaying maple leafs, and I also bought a pelican case to store them, it's air-tite too   Edited by SilverBug
02/23/2012 01:47 am
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Valued Member
Canada
287 Posts |
I use the square lighthouse holders and buy binder pages that hold them this way I can see both sides and show them to people very easily. Not sure about the black foam other than they claim it is safe  |
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Valued Member
Canada
451 Posts |
Nice Collection Parkay, I am envious.
I am leaning towards a storage system like that.
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Valued Member
Canada
287 Posts |
Thankyou Lithanial this is my silver dollars from 1935 to present, missing 1947, 1948 though
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
862 Posts |
@parkay: RCM's original square capsule is thicker than lighthouse's, did you replace them all? |
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Valued Member
Canada
287 Posts |
Yes they are all lighthouse 2 x 2 Quadrum capsules and pages made for them. Holders are 5.50 for 10 pack, pages are 6.50 for pkg of 2
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2764 Posts |
May be we can get the mods to group all the posts that are related to coin storage method/system into a category/sub-category....
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Pillar of the Community
1007 Posts |
Some nice collections and ideas here. 😈
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Posted 02/21/2012 10:02 pm
