How Long Have 2x2s Been Around?

foodude

When did people start using the paper 2x2s? I've only been collecting since '71 and they were around then from what I can recall.

kranky

I have some coins I put in 2x2's in the mid-60's.

Baley

Oh, I think coin collectors have been folding coins inside little squares of paper for centuries. The advent of little pre-made envelopes (for whatever generic use, not limited to coins) probably dates back at least a hundred years. I think that 2 x 2s specifically made for coins dates at least to the 1950's, if not earlier.

mgoodm3

For quite a while, at least since 2001, if not longer.

dorkkarl

heck, i remember when 2x2s were in 2 separate parts, the cardboard part, then the cellophane that you had to insert yourself.

that sucked.

also dates me, i guess....

K S

mgoodm3

i had a '64 Roosevelt in a two piece 2X2. That coin might have been in the 2X2 since 64.