2016 Canada Special Edition Olympic Silver Proof Set

You're giving the Mint ideas ;] Abort abort lol

Nice, a creative idea!

Removing coins from proof sets is much easier than I imagined. In faithfully collecting one set each year (for no real reason, it was a ritual), I decided to break them open and use the SD to begin my SD collection. Many of the older ones were slightly toned around the rim, may of been because they'd been sitting in a storage box on a cold basement floor for decades. That was an added incentive for me, I love toned coins that are a bit different from the standard. Plus noticing the low price that most proof sets are sold at on the secondary market, not much point in hoarding them.

Using surgical practise, clean area and cloths, tweezers, etc the plastic insert slides either up or down (can't remember which end, but only one end has a stop tab). Once the plastic insert is free from the case it's very easy to open by wedging a corner with a small knife. All the coins usually are firmly held by the dark coloured inner piece so it's a matter of gently pushing out the specimen with a cotton cloth, until it pops out, then carefully placing it in a coin capsule or quadrum. Nothing gets broken, it's just a matter of reversing the process to put the entire case back together although I find keeping the plastic inserts free from the bulky case is a much more compact method of storage.

I have yet to remove and add the toonie and loonies from the sets to my circulation collection, but that's a "some day" project as I gradually add the special or limited editions that I'm also missing.

I know how to remove a coin from the plastic holder without touching the coin at all. But it involves destroying the black plastic holder.

Just cut near the coin you want to remove from the side of the holder with a "side cutter" and it snaps open allowing the coin to fall out freely,one cut is all it takes, just make sure you have something for the coin to fall on and dont do it standing or the coin will drop to the floor....

Plus don't cut into the coin obviously lol.

When I removed the coins from the case they both came out very easily.

First I opened the out plastic clear sleeve by prying open the lower right corner.

Then the Black plastic insert with the coins in the holes slid out.

Once the black plastic insert was out all I had to do was pop out the coin using cotton gloves of course.

The coins came out very easily and the Olympic coins went in nicely as well.

No problems here.

Hope this helps.