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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 605626, member: 17753&quot;]<b>The follow up</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you all for your suggestions . . . if anyone&#039;s interested, here&#039;s what I did and the result.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, I looked to find a place to pop them open with a knife . . . it looked sealed all over.&nbsp; (But, perhaps I didn&#039;t look well enough).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, then, taking up on the vise idea, I took a C-clamp, and squeezed the corner until the hard plastic case broke (and _then_ it popped open!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Much to my pleasant surprise -- I didn&#039;t realize this (but then, I&#039;ve never owned a proof set before, much less tried to break one) -- but after you pop open the hard plastic case, the coins are _still_ in a blister-plastic kind of thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was thrilled because my biggest fear was what would happen when I touched the coins (even with gloves I didn&#039;t want to mark it).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the blister-plastic was stiff, but could still be cut with a scissors.&nbsp; I cut around each coin, slapped a 2x2 over it (which was overkill, I know) and then put bubble wrap around the 2x2.</p><p><br /></p><p>So . . . there ya&#039; go.&nbsp; Thanks, everyone, for your ideas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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