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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GSDykes, post: 2215895, member: 73321&quot;]Airtites are nice!</p><p>Alternatively:</p><p>I use black cardboard album pages, (archival quality) each has sleeves for 12 2x2&#039;s. To label I use the little Avery &quot;stick on&#039;s&quot;, (they come in about 450 per pack, depending on the size you want). I add printed documents in 3 hole punched 8 1/2 x 11 inch plastic protector sleeves (also archival quality). These documents contain added data about each coin - on the facing page - and extra history. All of which goes into <span style="color: #00b300">any standard 3 ring binder</span> of my choice! Each one then becomes a coin BOOK, with all sorts of data which can be added. Each binder is kept in a Jumbo Hefty zipped locked air tight plastic bag, with 56 grams of desiccant. I keep hundreds of coins this way. Cost is quite small. Some of the cardboard pages (BCW manufactured) I re-enforce using the plastic &quot;report cover&quot; sliding binders, to prevent severe bending (if heavy 12 oz. of silvers are on the page/plate!), these are trimmed to size, then I slide them onto the outer edges, thus re-enforcing the cardboard page! [if needed].&nbsp; Additional labeling is done with a small hand held Dymo printer. The back of each 2x2 also has penciled-in data, denomination, composition et cetera.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the black cardboard pages, the color contrasts nicely and with the thumb cut outs, inserting and removing the 2x2&#039;s is a snap. This is not an album for children, as they require a little bit of care. But<span style="color: #ff0000"> ANY world coin</span> which can fit into a 2x2 FITS. I can also add currency in the 8 1/2 x 11 inch plastic protector pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>One 3 inch binder can hold about 10 pages, which is 120 coins, with many more added pages of documentation.&nbsp; I have about a dozen albums, each with outside labeling showing which countries are therein. They can all fit into 2 regular cardboard file type carrying boxes. I dry the desiccant about once per year, I live in a damp area. Airtites are .50 cents to $1.00 each! And each airtite page is about $6.00 so as you can see, my method though on the cheap, saves hundreds of dollars, and - to date my coins are PRISTINE. We poor folk learn to live within our means! one way or another. Airtites are nice, special coin cases are nice too, but out of my reach. I just illustrated a cheap alternative.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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