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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 545887, member: 16729"]<b>Great thread! I need help...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm so glad you all have addressed this issue! </p><p> </p><p>I have purchase foam-ringed airtites for some of my coins. I currently keep these coins in 2X2s in Print File Archival Preservers (usually used for mounted, color-positive photographic slides). Now, my problem:</p><p> </p><p>I would like to put my all of these coins in the airtites I bought. I don't like loose airtites: They're round, and hard to manage. THEREFORE, I'd like to put these "airtited" coins (actually the coins are a S.Korean first-year type set, 25 in all) in an album, or in a holder on the same "page", or some sort of display, so that they are all together. The problem with the plastic flip sheets is that airtites do not fit very well in them, and they slide out the top openings very easily. Also, it's just yet another layer of plastic over the top of the airtites that way too, which drives me crazy when I want to look at the coins. </p><p> </p><p>What I'd like to do is to buy or make my own custom-made "board(s)", like the page of a regular coin album, but without the slides, instead just holes for the airtites to friction-fit in them. The airtites themselves would obviate the need for slides with such an album.</p><p> </p><p>Are there such albums for airtites? I was looking for materials to make something like this. Any ideas? Is this is just a bad idea?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 545887, member: 16729"][b]Great thread! I need help...[/b] I'm so glad you all have addressed this issue! I have purchase foam-ringed airtites for some of my coins. I currently keep these coins in 2X2s in Print File Archival Preservers (usually used for mounted, color-positive photographic slides). Now, my problem: I would like to put my all of these coins in the airtites I bought. I don't like loose airtites: They're round, and hard to manage. THEREFORE, I'd like to put these "airtited" coins (actually the coins are a S.Korean first-year type set, 25 in all) in an album, or in a holder on the same "page", or some sort of display, so that they are all together. The problem with the plastic flip sheets is that airtites do not fit very well in them, and they slide out the top openings very easily. Also, it's just yet another layer of plastic over the top of the airtites that way too, which drives me crazy when I want to look at the coins. What I'd like to do is to buy or make my own custom-made "board(s)", like the page of a regular coin album, but without the slides, instead just holes for the airtites to friction-fit in them. The airtites themselves would obviate the need for slides with such an album. Are there such albums for airtites? I was looking for materials to make something like this. Any ideas? Is this is just a bad idea?[/QUOTE]
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