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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bacchus, post: 49819, member: 759&quot;]Regarding Air-Tites, both ring-type and direct-fit.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ring-types are available at just about every millimeter size over a range up to about 40mm, and there are bigger ones beyond that.&nbsp; There are a small number of outside case diameters (holder size A, H, T, I, etc.) with the much more varied sized inside foam rings that accommodate all the different sized coins.&nbsp; You buy the Air-Tite per the foam ring size, and then you can buy display cards or album cards to fit the case outside diameters.&nbsp; The foam comes in different colors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The direct-fit holders don’t have a ring and use the inside diameter of the holder to hold the coins in place.&nbsp; The outside diameters, again, are just in a few sizes (the same A, H, T, and I), but usually are a smaller case size than for the same coin in a ring-type.&nbsp; For a while the direct-fits were very limited, just ASE, silver dollar, half, and quarter, <i>I think.&nbsp; </i>&nbsp; Recently small cent, dime, and nickel were added to the direct-fit lineup.</p><p><br /></p><p>I realize you know all this, but I thought I’d use the opportunity to inform anyone else who might be interested.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the direct-fits look better, and I moved my ASE collection over to them.&nbsp; My type set I left in ring-types.&nbsp; My AGEs don’t have a direct-fit size, so I use the ring-types for them.&nbsp; <b>I suspect, </b><i>but don’t really know, </i>that the coins are safer in the ring-types.&nbsp; It seems to me that the foam ring must be softer than a direct-fit next to the coin edge, and I think might do a better job of holding the coin in place, preventing it from sliding around in the case.&nbsp; However, I can’t say that I ever detected one of my ASEs moving around in the direct-fit holder.&nbsp; And, if the direct-fit holders actually used a curved (perpendicular to the coin face) inside rim or something to grip the coin so that it can’t move, then the direct-fit might offer more protection in a situation where you dropped the coin on the holder edge, and a coin in a ring-type was able to momentarily compress the foam ring and thus slide a tiny bit.&nbsp; Just speculation on my part.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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