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Hi! I'm looking for a way to store some Silver Maple Leaf coins. I don't know yet if I want to put some in capsules or in slabs. What do you recommend? A friend of mine plan to buy this but I'm not sure about the foam inside it. Is it safe? http://www.ebay.com/itm/200-Slab-Co...em5883f26615Thanks for the help! Any recommendations are welcome! |
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I am sort of in the same debate. I have seen the square capsules in person at Colonial Acres a few weeks ago, but I wasn't as impressed with how they looked. They actually looked sort of cheap. I have to say round capsules look much better. However, in terms of longterm storage, square capsules are much easier to manage, at least I think so. The Quadrum Square capsules can be displayed individually, in 2x2 trays, they can even snap into a special binder sheet. I find that the square capsules also start to look better when they are displayed in a 2x2 tray, as opposed to being displayed individually. Right now, I am still using round capsules as I havn't invested in a proper coin storage system yet. But once my collection gets large enough, I might decide to use a square capsule system. I am just not going to invest in a system until I make that decision. The Shopping Channel has some nice examples: http://www.theshoppingchannel.com/R...nav=R:509696Edited by Lithanial
02/21/2012 10:02 pm
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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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Dizzying! Very nice set up but I would hesitate myself to invest into storage of bullion coins to this extent.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nice Collection Parkay, I am envious.
I am leaning towards a storage system like that.
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Thankyou Lithanial this is my silver dollars from 1935 to present, missing 1947, 1948 though
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@parkay: RCM's original square capsule is thicker than lighthouse's, did you replace them all? |
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