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<p>[QUOTE="Victor, post: 189743, member: 5454"]Just a couple of things. First, I sold the AHS albums and no longer need to find the capsules I started this thread for. As it turns out, the only ones that fit that album have to be bought from American Historic Society and they have to be bought with a coin inside. What a giant ripoff. I found that an airtite is just a tad smaller than the opening in the album. I thought of using a small dot of superglue on the backside of the capsule to hold the smaller Airtite in the openings. You would never see it because this album only shows the obverses. You could still pry the front half of the capsule open if needed even when the back half is glued in. Anyway after much fiddling and numerous perplexing phone calls to American Historic Society, I have sold out and I'm done with it. What a wild goose chase. So just a warning to anyone not to buy coins from AHS. </p><p><br /></p><p>Second, I was told by two different dealers that the mint has their own size capsules. That means an Airtite or Kointain type capsule won't fit the mint box. I do not know if this is true and never checked it out.</p><p>So dreamer, you may have to find a used one from someone who has sent the granite lady coin out.</p><p>It is funny that there are so many sizes of capsules. You'd think that they would make them all the same.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor, post: 189743, member: 5454"]Just a couple of things. First, I sold the AHS albums and no longer need to find the capsules I started this thread for. As it turns out, the only ones that fit that album have to be bought from American Historic Society and they have to be bought with a coin inside. What a giant ripoff. I found that an airtite is just a tad smaller than the opening in the album. I thought of using a small dot of superglue on the backside of the capsule to hold the smaller Airtite in the openings. You would never see it because this album only shows the obverses. You could still pry the front half of the capsule open if needed even when the back half is glued in. Anyway after much fiddling and numerous perplexing phone calls to American Historic Society, I have sold out and I'm done with it. What a wild goose chase. So just a warning to anyone not to buy coins from AHS. Second, I was told by two different dealers that the mint has their own size capsules. That means an Airtite or Kointain type capsule won't fit the mint box. I do not know if this is true and never checked it out. So dreamer, you may have to find a used one from someone who has sent the granite lady coin out. It is funny that there are so many sizes of capsules. You'd think that they would make them all the same.[/QUOTE]
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