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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 2015715, member: 19065"]First you have to invite the Man of Steel over to your house and have him pry open the shipping container, and manage not to damage the OGP lying unbeknownst immediately below a few millimeters of micro-corrugated cardboard. Then, by prying out the coins, with something like a dull plastic knife, as if playing surgeon, so as not to dent the paper-board surrounding the faux-velvet coin capsule death-grip, you gingerly wedge and lift, wedge and lift, ala The Karate Kid training methods, until lift-off... President Kennedy rockets off into the air and crash-lands on the table or floor around you... What a thrilling experience it is to open this set... </p><p><br /></p><p>And don't you just love that squishy plastic nub that supports the contraption they devised to present these coins? That poly-whatever-ish thing has got to be bad news for long term storage, prone to dry rot over time and perhaps gas-off things your coins ought not reside with. The overall poor OGP design is further exposed by the inclusion of the plastic-foam sheet inserted between the closed boards of the sets separating them from the possible denting-action of the coin capsules that could occur during shipping/storage. Bravo![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 2015715, member: 19065"]First you have to invite the Man of Steel over to your house and have him pry open the shipping container, and manage not to damage the OGP lying unbeknownst immediately below a few millimeters of micro-corrugated cardboard. Then, by prying out the coins, with something like a dull plastic knife, as if playing surgeon, so as not to dent the paper-board surrounding the faux-velvet coin capsule death-grip, you gingerly wedge and lift, wedge and lift, ala The Karate Kid training methods, until lift-off... President Kennedy rockets off into the air and crash-lands on the table or floor around you... What a thrilling experience it is to open this set... And don't you just love that squishy plastic nub that supports the contraption they devised to present these coins? That poly-whatever-ish thing has got to be bad news for long term storage, prone to dry rot over time and perhaps gas-off things your coins ought not reside with. The overall poor OGP design is further exposed by the inclusion of the plastic-foam sheet inserted between the closed boards of the sets separating them from the possible denting-action of the coin capsules that could occur during shipping/storage. Bravo![/QUOTE]
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