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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Maxfli, post: 2826622, member: 69089&quot;]I think we&#039;re talking apples and oranges here. I should have been more precise in my earlier comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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).</p><p><br /></p><p>For people who collect series, particularly US series, the direct fit capsules (plus the pages to hold them) may be a workable solution.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not for me, because most of my raw coins are world coins, and I don&#039;t do series, which means I&#039;m working with a lot of different sizes.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Using the capsules with foam spacers, I&#039;m able to get all of my world coins into just two sizes of holders: &quot;I&quot; size for crowns, &quot;H&quot; size for everything else, all the way down to 16mm threepence coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which in turn means that I only have to buy two sizes of the Lighthouse coin capsule pages: those that hold &quot;H&quot; size capsules, and those that hold &quot;I&quot; size capsules.*</p><p><br /></p><p>When I have a few minutes, I&#039;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&#039;m trying to explain:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.jpscorner.com/airtite-black-ring-coin-holders.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jpscorner.com/airtite-black-ring-coin-holders.html" rel="nofollow">Black Ring Air-Tite coin holders</a></p><p><br /></p><p>*With some of the coins in &quot;H&quot; size Air-Tites, I have to double ring them to get an exact fit . . . mainly 23mm and 25mm coins because &quot;H&quot; spacers aren&#039;t offered in those sizes. But I consider that a reasonable trade off for being able to standardize everything in the &quot;H&quot; size capsules and capsule pages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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