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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Sims, post: 1941883, member: 59688"]Back in 2012 I purchased four new, unused Capital Plastics U. S. Commemorative Half Dollars holders #431C at a coin show cheap with the idea of reselling them.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]337333[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Did not happen. Last week I finally thought of a way to put them to good use, re-purpose them so I can sell them. I erased the title, P D S and holder # on three of them. Then I went through my coins for sale/trade and found some half dollars to make up my own short sets. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first one has 1943 Walking Liberty, 1953 Franklin and 1964 Kennedy inserted in it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]337334[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second one I inserted one of each of the three metal content types of Kennedy halves, 90% 1964-D, 40% 1966, and a clad 1979-D.[ATTACH=full]337336[/ATTACH] </p><p>The third one I inserted a 1964 reverse side up, a 1970-D for the obverse, and 1976-S with the Bicentennial reverse side up.[ATTACH=full]337338[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I think they all came out pretty nice and now I am going to keep them. I have one holder left and am eventually going to put in three California related commems, the Bay Bridge, San Diego, and California Diamond Jubilee.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Sims, post: 1941883, member: 59688"]Back in 2012 I purchased four new, unused Capital Plastics U. S. Commemorative Half Dollars holders #431C at a coin show cheap with the idea of reselling them. [ATTACH=full]337333[/ATTACH] Did not happen. Last week I finally thought of a way to put them to good use, re-purpose them so I can sell them. I erased the title, P D S and holder # on three of them. Then I went through my coins for sale/trade and found some half dollars to make up my own short sets. The first one has 1943 Walking Liberty, 1953 Franklin and 1964 Kennedy inserted in it. [ATTACH=full]337334[/ATTACH] The second one I inserted one of each of the three metal content types of Kennedy halves, 90% 1964-D, 40% 1966, and a clad 1979-D.[ATTACH=full]337336[/ATTACH] The third one I inserted a 1964 reverse side up, a 1970-D for the obverse, and 1976-S with the Bicentennial reverse side up.[ATTACH=full]337338[/ATTACH] I think they all came out pretty nice and now I am going to keep them. I have one holder left and am eventually going to put in three California related commems, the Bay Bridge, San Diego, and California Diamond Jubilee.[/QUOTE]
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