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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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What do you guys use when you find an MS/AU (or any find) on the go and don't have immediate access to capsules or 2x2? Suppose you weren't expecting to go coining but found a piece you want to preserve right away (as a banknote in a thick book)?
I try not to put my finds in my pockets where they can get banged up and forgotten about. Sometimes flips are good but can't always carry them. It's new 2011 season so new coins are being pumped out, and I have less pockets now in the springtime. I'm open to ideas.
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Valued Member
United States
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Fold them up in paper many times over?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wrap in a piece of soft napkin. Or if you carry a handkerchief, wrap in that. Do not place in a piece of paper unless you really know what that paper is made from. If you have a purse, wallet or a tight pocket, place that coin wrapped in something soft and then in there so it doesn't move.
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Valued Member
United States
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"Or if you carry a handkerchief"
I think you just dated yourself on that one! Who carries a handkerchief these day's? :P
I carry an empty Mylar Double pocket flip for short term storage.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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"Or if you carry a handkerchief"
I think you just dated yourself on that one! Who carries a handkerchief these day's? :P
Not really. If you've ever had Chemotherapy you learn to carry a lot of stuff. Your own handerchief that you know is really clean is what is safe considering Chemo lowers your immune system drastically. You don't shake hands, you wipe off door handles, etc. It's all for being safe, not sorry. Who carries one? Many people after Chemo for one. Try it sometime. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I carry one, and I'm a College age Fraternity guy (Sigma Phi Epsilon), its a lot classier than a ratty piece of paper...
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Valued Member
United States
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A always have a few old airtites in my car, they're all scratched up but they get the job done.
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Moderator
 Australia
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I have one of those clamshell-style mobile phones. If I find a coin and don't have any other way of keeping it separate from my pocket change, I'll put it in my phone. I just have to remember that it's there if somebody calls me.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I carry an empty Mylar Double pocket flip for short term storage Pretty easy to put one in your wallet, not sure you can do better than that. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Glasses cases work. I used to put coins in them when I carried my case around, but I don't use it anymore. The inside is almost always soft so it can be a good protection for the coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I just have to remember that it's there if somebody calls me. I was kind of picturing that where someone gives you a really valuable coin, you put it there, the phone rings, you open it and out pops that coin now rolling down the street.  I kid picks it up, runs to a vending machine, puts it in and out comes a can of pop now valued at a hundred dollars. Just kidding but I'll stick to a handkerchief. But I now have a thought of carrying a 2x2 in my car, just in case. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I carry an empty Mylar Double pocket flip for short term storage.
I do the same thing, they are easy to store in a wallet |
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Valued Member
United States
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"Many people after Chemo for one. Try it sometime."
Well now I just feel bad :(
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Pillar of the Community
United States
594 Posts |
In my right side pants pocket there is another little pocket called a change pocket.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I'm tempted to say I swallow them and retrieve them later but that would be a lie. Either my change pocket like KenRingold just posted or in a pinch when I found many I wanted to keep, I put them in the rim of my sock and rolled it down into a cuff. Worked.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi all. I was at work when a fellow worker gave me a 1910 LWC. I was so afraid of losing it that I ended up putting it in a handmade envelope and stapled it together all around the coin. Wrote on it, 1910 LWC, and stuck it in my inside coat pocket. A little extreme maybe. It made it home though, and I was able to post it on CCF! |
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