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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;adric22, post: 1586619, member: 38146&quot;]I while back I posted a picture of some of my 40% Eisenhowers in a different thread.&nbsp; Somebody asked what those little spacers were and I explained they were little plastic tokens that came with them from the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I&#039;ve been pondering this for a while and I&#039;ve been thinking it would actually be nice if there were &quot;spacers&quot; available for coins like Silver Eagles.&nbsp;&nbsp; There would actually be two benefits.&nbsp; The first and most obvious benefit would be that they would keep the coins from scratching each other up inside the tubes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second benefit is somewhat more difficult to explain as it may only apply to certain people with personalities like mine.&nbsp; I&#039;ll try to explain below if you can survive reading this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect quite a few different types of silver coins as bullion.&nbsp; For a long time my strategy has been to put the coins in tubes and attempt to fill the tubes up over time.&nbsp; I&#039;ve managed to fill quite a few tubes.&nbsp; But since money is limited to around $100 per month, I tend to gravitate towards the less expensive coins, because I can fill tubes more quickly and thus I <i>feel </i>like I&#039;m accomplishing something.&nbsp; So you might think I&#039;d want the cheapest silver coins, which would be pre 1965 dimes.&nbsp; But the tube for dimes requires 50 coins.&nbsp; Plus the coins are small so I don&#039;t have a huge sense of accomplishment.&nbsp;&nbsp; As such, the type of coin I&#039;ve been most successful in collecting has been the 1965-1970 half dollar.&nbsp; The reasons are simple:</p><ul> <li>They are only 40% silver, hence much cheaper to buy.</li> <li>The coins are large, so it feels like I&#039;ve accomplished more.</li> <li>The tubes are designed to only hold 20 coins - so I can fill them up even faster.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>So, I have a tube of American Silver Eagles.&nbsp; But so far over the years I&#039;ve only ever managed to buy 10 of them.&nbsp; My tube is only half full.&nbsp; At this rate it may be years before I fill it up.&nbsp; It is depressing for me to buy those because they are expensive and I know I won&#039;t manage to fill the tube for a long time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I recently began buying the 40% Eisenhowers and I realized that if I kept the tokens as spacers, the tube fills up pretty quickly.&nbsp; I finally filled it to the top yesterday and it was only able to hold 12 coins (and 12 tokens).&nbsp; So I have a great sense of accomplishment. And since I paid around $12 a piece for those, that is about $144 worth of silver.&nbsp; Not bad.&nbsp; While granted, a full tube of ASEs would be worth around $760, the sense of accomplishment is still about the same for me.&nbsp; But I could fill up 5 tubes of Eisenhowers or a single tube of ASEs.</p><p><br /></p><p>So.. bringing me back to the spacers issue.&nbsp; If there were some kind of ASE spacer, that would be cool.&nbsp; I could protect the coins further, and reduce the size of the tube to 10 coins, which would create more easily obtainable goals for me, thus helping to encourage me to invest.&nbsp; I suppose if they made smaller tubes for ASEs that might also help.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I searched around on Google and didn&#039;t find anything specifically mentioned for this purpose.&nbsp; I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for something that could work, even if it wasn&#039;t made for this purpose?&nbsp; It would just need to be plastic and roughly the same size as an ASE.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or - if maybe there was some easy way I could make them myself?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh... and I guess there is a 3rd benefit of spacers... they just kind of look cool:</p><p><img src="http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk277/adric22/IMG_0590.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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