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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2803669, member: 80804&quot;]Just a suggestion for those using the cardboard and mylar &quot;huggers&quot; that might make them more practical for some people to use: find a pair of pliers with the right sort of parallel opening between the jaws and make sure you clench the staples and flatten them, particularly on the back of the hugger, where the stapler has curved the ends. It&#039;s the bits of staple sticking up from the surface of the hugger that pose the worst danger to adjacent coins in storage boxes. With a pair of pliers it&#039;s easy to clench the staples down so they do not project above the cardboard surface at all.&nbsp; Also watch out for stacking coins with a smaller &quot;hole&quot; (&quot;dime size&quot;) next to those with with larger holes (&quot;crown size&quot;) in a storage box - the mylar is a poor protection against staple-scratching and the staples in the smaller-hole hugger are likely to be within the circle of mylar on the larger-hole huggers. </p><p>If you have a small-pointed knife - like a dulled scalpel - it&#039;s easy to get under the clenched ends of the staples on the back without trashing the hugger. Pry the clenched ends up to 90º. That will facilitate pulling them out from the &quot;top&quot; (front). If you do a careful job, you can re-use and re-staple the same huggers many times.</p><p>I don&#039;t much use huggers, except for modern world coins and US where there isn&#039;t a lot of additional information which needs to be written down beyond the date and a comment if there is anything unusual to note + a catalog number for world pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]654269[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For ancient and medieval coins - which are more of a specialty for me - I almost always use un-plasticized 2&quot;x2&quot;, 2-pocket, clear flips. I have a template in Word which allows me to cram a lot of information onto the fliptags/&quot;tickets&quot; that I print-out. Then, if I am adding photos of the pieces in question to my website/gallery, I can copy and paste the text I typed for the fliptags into the caption fields in the gallery (and vice-versa - perhaps with a little abbreviation and editing so it can all squeeze onto the ticket.) It&#039;s a great time-saver.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]654272[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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