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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1251191, member: 112&quot;]No matter what you use, everything has its downside.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problems with 2x2s I have listed already.</p><p><br /></p><p>SaFlips also have their downside. The plastic they make them out of is hard and brittle. After being bent open and closed a number of times they tend to break in the middle. Also, the top edge of the storage pockets is sharp and it will scratch coins as you put them into or take them out of the flips. That&#039;s why dealers never use them. And they do not provide the same level of protection that a hard holder provides.</p><p><br /></p><p>Air-Tites have a downside too. They are not airtight as their name seems to imply. And there is the cost issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>But Air-Tites can be displayed just as easily as a 2x2 or a flip and they can stored in the exact same manner as either of the others.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the cost issue - think of it this way. What are the coins in your collection worth to you ? Is it not worth 50 cents to be able to safely store, and protect with the best protection there is, that coin and have that 1 coin holder last for the rest of your life ? If that coin had cost you 50 cents more when you bought it, would you have still bought it ?</p><p><br /></p><p>What you have to do when you choose a storage method for your coins is this. You consider all the issues as a whole, looking at the good things, and the bad things, a particular option offers you and comparing them to each other. </p><p><br /></p><p>If everybody sat down and wrote a list of the options, with the good things for each option on one side, and the bad things for each thing on the other side. And then compared all those options to each other. When you were done if you didn&#039;t see Air-Tites as being the best option - then you must be blind, IMO of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to each his own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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