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My intent was to refer the OP specifically to the Lighthouse coin capsule pages, not the albums.

The albums are the only items in that link where I see a reference to vinyl. My understanding is that the coin capsule pages are PVC-free.

 

this film box works great and fits well in my safe

 

I'll check out those Lighthouse pages. What I don't like is it seems like each page is for a very small range of sizes, so potentially I'd need a lot of different pages and had a lot that were half full or less. They're also quite expensive compared to the other plastic pages. A tip on those - I buy boxes of 100 standard pages on Amazon for $15, which is way less than any coin shop I've been to.

 

I'm curious what people's experience is with the sizing. Do they need to be exact? The link posted above only includes four sizes. I found some on eBay that seem to include some different sizes as well.

 

Double post. Stupid Wi-Fi.

 

I'm not sure I understand your question. Air-Tites come in four sizes, and the Lighthouse pages are made in four sizes to match the Air-Tites exactly.

 

There are 11 different sized pages on this site: http://www.lighthouse.us/epages/lig...s/leuchtturm_us/Categories/US/US_2258/US_2264

So I didn't know how exact I need to be when I buy them. If my airtite is one size and the page is bigger, will it not work?

 

I think we're talking apples and oranges here. I should have been more precise in my earlier comments.

There are two ways to do Air-Tites: 1) direct fit capsules, and 2) capsules that use black or white inert foam spacer rings to achieve fit.

I think the capsule pages you linked to are covering all of the options for direct fit capsules. And yes, as Doug noted, there are quite a few of those.

With the spacer ring option, you can fit virtually all coins from tiny ones up through crowns and silver eagles using just 4 capsule sizes: A, T, H and I (no idea why they use that particular nomenclature).

For people who collect series, particularly US series, the direct fit capsules (plus the pages to hold them) may be a workable solution.

It's not for me, because most of my raw coins are world coins, and I don't do series, which means I'm working with a lot of different sizes.

Using the capsules with foam spacers, I'm able to get all of my world coins into just two sizes of holders: "I" size for crowns, "H" size for everything else, all the way down to 16mm threepence coins.

Which in turn means that I only have to buy two sizes of the Lighthouse coin capsule pages: those that hold "H" size capsules, and those that hold "I" size capsules.*

When I have a few minutes, I'll try to grab some photos and post them. In the meantime, check out this link and see if it sheds some light on what I'm trying to explain:

Black Ring Air-Tite coin holders

*With some of the coins in "H" size Air-Tites, I have to double ring them to get an exact fit . . . mainly 23mm and 25mm coins because "H" spacers aren't offered in those sizes. But I consider that a reasonable trade off for being able to standardize everything in the "H" size capsules and capsule pages.

 

Thank you for the information you have provided throughout this forum. This is my first day visiting the site — although each page says my membership is, mysteriously, showing that it's still awaiting confirmation — and I am prompted to ask a few questions that are germane to this particular thread.

1. I was gifted a 1986 or 87 Silver Eagle and a near-perfect Walking Liberty Half about thirty years ago. The two coins were sandwiched between suitably large slabs of plastic, and each coin is placed side-by-side in a frame of what appears to be a foam-like material then the slabs look to have been sealed shut. After many years of sitting in a desk drawer, I find that the two coins have some sort of oxidation on them. If I thought I had enough privileges to post a photo I would be happy to do so. I assume that the value of these coins has been effected by this, is that right? Is there anything I can do to prevent further oxidation short of smashing the presentation piece?

2. That got me to checking a number of my ASEs, nearly all of which have been put into Air Tite capsules. Many of these, too, I have found to have turned color, mostly on the rims, so I wonder what might be going wrong here.

3. I have a few rolls of ASEs in their original government rolls. These have never been opened, but I can see from close exam through the opaque tubes that there is NO oxidation on the edges. Any suggestions for keeping these from turning?

Thanks

 

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Nice post. I see the LA is Louisiana not Los Angeles. Welcome to CoinTalk. Consider going to the main Forums page and making a post in Introductions. I also notice that your Profile Page is "locked".

 

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

 

Aye, there's the rub... as many times as I've pushed that button to resend the confirmation email I go check incoming mail and spam for something from Cointalk and there's nothing there... nothing at all.

I saw a post of yours about sending private emails, but I, apparently, don't have enough privileges to send PMs, or at least I cannot find anything about sending them. As member Kentucky notes, he found my profile page locked. I can't speak to that. Will look for other approaches tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

 

I've seen those on coins I bought but didn't know the story behind them. Thanks for the explanation.

 

I called myself reading all the responses to your question, so if I repeat what someone may have already said, I'm sorry.

I know that the Modern Silver Commemoratives, that come from the US Mint, in the OGP's, are in the protective air-tite capsules. What I can tell from your question is, you are wanting to know if you can remove the coin from the air-tite capsule, place it in a 2X2, (with the cardboard and very thin plastic), and then place the 2X2 into one of the plastic sleeve pages that hold 2X2's mylar flips, etc. correct?

I also noticed that you mentioned, that when the commems arrive in the OGP's, you would store them in a drawer, and it would basically more time consuming, and cumbersome to view the coins, when you wanted to. As far as the toning part of your question, the coins will most definitely tone, (change surface originality), once removed from the air-tites and placed into the 2X2's.

This is where someone may have already mentioned what I'm going to say next, and why I made my initial comment. Why would you want to take the coins out of the original air-tites, place them into the 2X2's, and then put them into the album sleeve pages? Why not just take the coins straight out of the OGP's, in the original air-tites, and place them, (as they are in the air-tites), into the album sleeve pages?

You don't have to buy any air-tites for the coins, if the coins already arrive in the air-tites. If it's a question about storage for the OGP's, after the coin has been removed, you have many choices for their storage, (if you want to keep them). If you don't care about the OGP storage boxes or COA's, you can EASILY sell them on E-bay.

I hope this will be helpful.

 

I hadn't been aware that there were pages to store airtites, but someone did mention it and I'm going to look into that.