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Got the Silver Kennedy set, and, want to put all 4 into my blank Dansco 50c page...one must be VERY careful getting these out, and in slots, without any damage, fingerprints, etc...for the life of me, these capsules drive me haywire, as they are so difficult to split open(whatever fingernails I had are toast, trying)..don't feel like busting with pliers, as 1 wrong piece of slipping plastic can scratch a proof in a New York Minute, so, feel free to tell how to safely split these. I WISH the Mint would switch to SCREW-OFF airtites!
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I am disinclined to crack out proof coins from Mint ultrasonically sealed airtight capsules.
If you must, put the capsule in a vise, and wrap a clean towel around the jaws. VERY slowly and gradually apply pressure until you hear the capsule crack. Carefully remove the capsule, and see if you can then prize it apart. If you can't, repeat the process.

In these sorts of cases, I usually try to put the still sealed capsule in a 2x2, and put that into an album page.
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I use a steak knife as a fingernail.
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I keep a variety of tongs/tweezers. They come in handy for so much.
I have them ranging from tweezers for personal use, to versions
made specifically for stamp collectors. Anyway, there are versions
that have very thin ends, thin enough to be sharp. I use them for
gently splitting air-tites, precision slicing open envelopes,
dealing with cardboard flips so that the staples don't contact
coin surfaces, and even slicing the tape on boxes containing coins
and hobby supplies that I receive in the mail. They are really handy.

How do you plan to put these into your Dansco?

I am doing the same thing, and thought about a few ways to do it,
and decided I am just going to get a blank halves page, and that will
allow for my 8166 to accept the dates it needs to continue to 2014,
plus all of the 2014 halves, and then have just enough holes
left to finish 2015. The problem then is where to go from there.
I don't think the 8166 will hold yet another page, and I want
to have room for the 2005-2010 satins, AND to continue into the
future. I don't want to have to end my album at 2015. I also
don't want to get Dansco's part 2 album, as it will be thin and
still will not have the dates I want covered. I might have to
bite the bullet and get a custom album to be my part 2.
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Mine are going into my 8167..I just bought a complete PDSS set(it was the owner's personal set, and, he's selling out his collections..his Roosie Dansco's I got(2), are his best, being all BU coins). The 64-2011 are in a littleton, and, Dansco for here on out. I've learned 1 thing, buying a lot of complete albums recently..bottom line..sticking with Dansco from here on out, as the Intercept Shield and Littleton's I got had some nasty slippage problems(more so with the Intercepts)..I put 2 tiny hairlines on my 1998-s Silver KHD, re-setting loose coinage, and, when I saw it I was sick to my stomach..Handling Proof coins is something one must do with incredible care. NOW..better buy my GOLD KHD, as, I'm sure, Monday price will go up.
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Quote:
I am disinclined to crack out proof coins from Mint ultrasonically sealed airtight capsules.
These capsules are not sealed.
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