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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3035421, member: 112&quot;]Air-Tite holders, in and of themselves, will not protect your coins from toning. This is because they are NOT airtight, no coin holder is airtight. Air-Tites will slow toning down because they reduce air flow but they will not stop it. And even though they prevent direct contact with cardboard, that doesn&#039;t change anything either because direct contact is not the problem - air getting to the coins is the problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, with any cardboard album it is not the direct contact between the coin and cardboard that causes toning. The thing that causes the toning is the gasses that are put off by the cardboard. It is the proximity of the coins to the gasses that is the sole issue. And since the gasses can still get to the coins even though they are in an Air-Tite holder the coins will still tone.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Caps albums themselves, I looked everywhere on their web site and I can find absolutely nothing that says their albums are made of archival quality materials. Those materials include the outer binder, the pages themselves which includes what I assume is paper or cardboard and the plastic that covers it. Any and all of these things, if they are not made of inert materials, will put off gasses that are harmful to the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So simple answer, yes, you probably are misleading yourself. Is the Caps system better than regular coin albums ? Yes, without a doubt. But it won&#039;t stop toning, it will merely slow it down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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