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<p>[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2089634, member: 73555"]That cabinet-and-tray arrangement is the way they stored valuable coins from the 1880s through the 1920s, give or take, until the first Wayte Raymond brown albums, date unknown, followed by 2x2 manila envelopes and Whitman blue albums (late 1940s?).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since the coins were simply laid into little velvet or felt pockets, over time that led to what auction describers called "cabinet friction," the slightest wear on the highest design areas of otherwise uncirculated coins. That would not happen in a modern container like the OP's.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="doug5353, post: 2089634, member: 73555"]That cabinet-and-tray arrangement is the way they stored valuable coins from the 1880s through the 1920s, give or take, until the first Wayte Raymond brown albums, date unknown, followed by 2x2 manila envelopes and Whitman blue albums (late 1940s?). Since the coins were simply laid into little velvet or felt pockets, over time that led to what auction describers called "cabinet friction," the slightest wear on the highest design areas of otherwise uncirculated coins. That would not happen in a modern container like the OP's.[/QUOTE]
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