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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2789732, member: 10461&quot;]Pretty choo-choos!</p><p><br /></p><p>I like Capital Plastics holders.&nbsp; Speaking of those, and of Canada, I once found a Capital Plastics holder for a Canadian Type Set in an old-timey coin shop run by an old-timey lady (Hey, [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] - remember sweet old Mrs. Sellers in Asheville?&nbsp; God rest her soul - she was one of a kind.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, Mrs. Sellers had stuff that had been in their inventory at Sellers&#039; Coin Shop since the 1960s.&nbsp; I think this Capital Plastics holder was from that inventory, because it still had a 1960s-vintage price sticker on it, which was ridiculously cheap - like a buck-fifty or two bucks - something like that.&nbsp; Mrs. Sellers let me have it for the 1960s price.&nbsp; It was still sealed in the original packaging, so even though it was 30+ years old at the time (this was the early 1990s), it was still essentially brand new.</p><p><br /></p><p>So then, since I had a brand-new (old) Capital Plastics holder for a Canadian type set, which cost me two bucks or less, I had to fill it with coins, which I eventually did! (That cost quite a bit <i>more</i> than two bucks.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Funny how getting an album or frame or holder like that can steer you in a certain direction, ain&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll bet if you could find one of those (no doubt long-discontinued) Capital Plastics Canadian Type Set holders nowadays, it would probably cost you forty or fifty bucks.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edit</b>- or maybe more.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t find one, but considering the price of the <a href="http://www.coinsupplyexpress.com/408B-Capital-sku-18824.html?feed=Froogle&amp;gclid=CI-FjZiy9NQCFYU_Gwod71ULEQ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsupplyexpress.com/408B-Capital-sku-18824.html?feed=Froogle&amp;gclid=CI-FjZiy9NQCFYU_Gwod71ULEQ" rel="nofollow">US 20th century type set</a> holders which are about the same size ... yow!</p><p><br /></p><p>Cool that they made you a custom holder.&nbsp; Was it expensive?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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