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<p>[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 939577, member: 24633"]Gee, I thought they were the same size. Do you mean that I filed the edges down on all of my half dollars to make them fit, and it was all for nothing?!!!</p><p> </p><p>One word of caution........About 10 years ago, I purchased the AirTites with the black accent ring for 30 Morgan dollars. Three years later, I removed one of them to take some photos, and I discovered that the edge of the Morgan had turned completely black. When I checked the others, all of them had turned black. I sent them in to NCS for conservation along with one of the rings for them to examine. NCS was unable to come up with a cause for this.</p><p> </p><p>Maybe the early accent rings had some sort of die or chemical that reacted with the silver. I don't know. I mention this because if there are any of you using the black accent rings, I'd suggest that you check your coins from time to time just to make sure this doesn't happen to your coins.</p><p> </p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 939577, member: 24633"]Gee, I thought they were the same size. Do you mean that I filed the edges down on all of my half dollars to make them fit, and it was all for nothing?!!! One word of caution........About 10 years ago, I purchased the AirTites with the black accent ring for 30 Morgan dollars. Three years later, I removed one of them to take some photos, and I discovered that the edge of the Morgan had turned completely black. When I checked the others, all of them had turned black. I sent them in to NCS for conservation along with one of the rings for them to examine. NCS was unable to come up with a cause for this. Maybe the early accent rings had some sort of die or chemical that reacted with the silver. I don't know. I mention this because if there are any of you using the black accent rings, I'd suggest that you check your coins from time to time just to make sure this doesn't happen to your coins. Chris[/QUOTE]
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