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<p>[QUOTE="Stork, post: 2970269, member: 71642"]If the concern is more protection then you need more than a slab. Slabs are protective but are not airtight (unless things have changed recently). My slabs sit in Coin Armour bags/Intercept boxes/both for that reason. </p><p><br /></p><p>More cost effective and more protective would be Airtite capsules. You can order in various sizes and some come with foam rings for fit (not sure I'd use those either). THEN you'd be sure to have the 'best' seal. </p><p><br /></p><p>OTH, for display etc, a serially numbered set of slabs would be kind of cool and more uniform than variously sized airtites. Not sure if NGC or PCGS has a better following for these, but IIRC there are a couple error types (de-lamination???) that one of the two would not slab but the other might depending on the coin. Then I'd keep the slabs with some sort of Intercept product.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Stork, post: 2970269, member: 71642"]If the concern is more protection then you need more than a slab. Slabs are protective but are not airtight (unless things have changed recently). My slabs sit in Coin Armour bags/Intercept boxes/both for that reason. More cost effective and more protective would be Airtite capsules. You can order in various sizes and some come with foam rings for fit (not sure I'd use those either). THEN you'd be sure to have the 'best' seal. OTH, for display etc, a serially numbered set of slabs would be kind of cool and more uniform than variously sized airtites. Not sure if NGC or PCGS has a better following for these, but IIRC there are a couple error types (de-lamination???) that one of the two would not slab but the other might depending on the coin. Then I'd keep the slabs with some sort of Intercept product.[/QUOTE]
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