I know that there are albums for air-tites and slabs. But what if you already have your coins in a variety of different air-tites, and you want to keep same types together even if they're in air-tites or slabs? How about a DIY vacuum sealed album page where slabs and air-tites are placed together? Then everything is a custom fit. Any cull coins won't find its way to your album, and any coins you don't think you'll be keeping or you plan on selling can be put into a traditional album page for easy access. And, wouldn't this make it even more air tight and stronger? If you've ever vacuum sealed food before or have purchased vacuum sealed foods, they are very, very dense. You'll just have to make sure to three hole punch the vacuum sealed pages in the right spot so as not to leak the air, and size the vacuum seal right. The vacuum seal pages are pretty tough but you can always double up on another vacuum seal or simply put the vacuumed page in one of those large 8.5" x 11" three hole punched sleeves. Any thoughts?
If you have to add a coin somewhere in between two coins, how many sealed pages do you have to destroy to shift all of the following coins? Slabs are twice as big as airtites. How do they all fit on the page? I don't like the idea. Chris
Yeah, once it's sealed, it's sealed so that would be a drawback if you wanted to add coins in. I see it working for complete sets, but they already have neatly organized albums catering to that already. That said, I believe that vacuum sealed pages are reusable, so if you do have to move things around, perhaps you could put a tab/plug at the sealed location, unseal the page by removing the plug, add/shift around the coin(s), then re-vacuum the page. The air-tites can be placed in vertical columns of two next to slabs. If you run out of space like one would with a traditional album page, one would simply add another vacuumed page.
The only way I see around this would be to plan your set in advance so as to preserve holes, and reserve a slab-sized space for each coin. It wastes space but would require no shifting of coins once a page was filled.
If you already have the infrastructure to create vaccuum packs, it's trivial to create a new one. Supplies are cheap, cheaper than Ziplocks if you buy right. Were it mine to do, this system would be for stuff I knew I wouldn't be turning long-term anyways. The level of improvement over well-employed Ziplocks isn't really enough to offset the convenience.
What do you do when you want to take a high-quality photo of one or more of the coins? "Cheap" only applies when you have to buy something once. The more you have to replace the more expensive things get. It's similar to the old adage, "Measure twice, cut once!" Chris
To preserve the order of the other pages, many of which will be complete. When you fill a hole you only have to redo the one page the hole was on. It doesn't cascade pushing coins throughout the rest of the album.
You still have to spend more money. Suppose you have to do that 10, 20 or 30 or more times for each page. Chris
That depends on how many holes you have to fill. It's still fewer pages than shifting all the coins in the album 10+ times.
Yes that's the whole point. This is a DIY album, so I'm suggesting reserved spots like a pre-printed album uses so the pages don't shift...
All you modern coin collectors with your vaccum sealed coins. Why just a few minutes ago I was holding a 2,500 year old coin with my bare hand. If a coin can survive 2,500 years without vaccum sealing, yours can too. Enjoy your coins folks...but you can't do that if your coin is in an airtight capsule inside a 2x2 holder inside an album page, which is then placed inside a vaccum sealed folder so as to ensure your coin is forever sealed in layers of plastic and never seen, held, viewed, etc. You may as well collect pet rocks...at least you can hold those and actually enjoy them.
