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********ADDED: I'll give away a "gently used" slide top to anyone that wants to enter their name on the Giveaway forum....go see!
Before TPG's there were these "slide top" holders for your coins.....still have a few dozen.
bob 
Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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Never saw those. Is it a Capital Plastics product?
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
Don't remember, nothing stamped or etched on them....maybe someone else remembers the source.
bob
When all the dimes, quarters and halves in circulation were 90% silver.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
When old green holders were new green holders.
“I may not believe in myself but I believe in what I’m doing” ~Jimmy Page~
My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947)
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
When you could get pattern coins in cereal.
I'm an ole dawg, but don't remember those.
….Teletrade bidding required a push button phone.
I did a lot of that. Still have a bunch of those coins.
I remember when there were a number of coin stores in my area. We had a good one close the other day after they had been the victim of an armed robbery. A few years before that they were broken into but the safes weren't opened. Damned thieves!
Louis Armstrong
I don't remember ANY of these things, lol. I DO remember finding a silver dime in a coin return on a coke machine at my church as a kid. The only silver I've ever found in circulation!
I remember buying CS currency from Grover Criswell. Got some great stuff from him too.
I remember going to the bank on the first day that the Kennedy Half Dollars were released.
..... stores gave Kennedys and Ikes as change.
I used to have those plastic slide holders, too!
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
I remember when coin shops had bid boards, really enjoyed those.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
10 cent Cokes, 2 cents for the returnable bottle.
Little department stores like Grants and Ben Franklin sold coins and supplies.
When my college had a protest over canned Cokes going from a dime to 15 cents.
Getting Buffalo nickels in rolls, and using date restorer on the dateless ones.
When Ike Dollars first came out and everybody thought they were cool.
The sky was not falling!
... and was conducted via VHS tapes sent through the mail!
And it would leave a nasty spot.
When prices on Classic Commems were going up
Chopmarked trade dollars were considered ungradable junk and sold for $16 each
A mercury dime had to have full vertical lines on the fasces to be graded FINE .......thats a long gone rule
Au-Unc coins bought through the mail were usually XF cleaned
Commems and Early Type
I remember when dimes, quarters, and half dollars in circulation were all made of silver. I remember when you could easily find buffalo nickels, Standing Liberty quarters, and Walking Liberty half dollars in change along with the occasional Indian Head cent and Barber silver coin. I remember when you could go to the bank and get as many Morgan dollars and Peace dollars for face value as you wanted to buy. I remember when gold double eagles were available for less than $50 each. I could go on but I'm starting to feel really old.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
$45 Saints.
I remember when the 1995 doubled die cent was discovered and it sent us all on a big treasure hunt. Probably the most fun the community had searching their change. Prices were high and the coins kept coming. (Of course, I didnt find one in the wild for another 15 years!)
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
I can honestly say that the OP's example is the first plastic slide I've ever seen!!
I do remember gold at $235/oz, and silver at $4 ...
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
I remember gold at $35 per oz and silver at $1.29 per oz.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
I remember when there were a lot more coin stores then there are now. you really had a choice
When roll searching produced decent results! I used to take my paper route money in the 70's and get various rolls from the bank, search them and fill my Whitmans. That was great fun as a kid...
K
Those plastic slide top holders were first used for Franklin Mint medals and were then marketed for coins as well. Most date from the late 1960s thru the 1980s.
I know I've had mine since the 60's for sure.
bob
I remember when PVC flips were the norm!
Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
The mantra was 'buy the coin, not the plastic'. Still true, but not nearly so much... now we buy the plastic and the bean.
Bought my first gold coin, a BU 1900-S $20, for $50 from Earl Schill in downtown Detroit on May 31, 1966.
Buying coins in department stores like Brandeis in Omaha.
Buying coins from a rotator case at Woolworth's.
They only had a book at the Woolworth's in my area. Rotator cases were for fancy stores, like the one in Boston.
We only had a Sproutz Reitz which had no coins..........ugh
i remember when no one had flown to space yet
........... as a YN I was given an MS 1950-D nickel as a present from my parents that they purchased from Dan Brown's coin store in Denver in the mid 1960's; and
......... taking a 3rd grade class field trip to the Denver mint in the spring of 1964 (may during the time period that the 1964-D Peace Dollars were struck) and being amazed looking at the display of gold and silver nuggets, bars and coins sitting in an old safe behind a wall of glass.
TTT
When "Coin World" had many times 2 sections and over 100 pages. And the 'Trading Post" section in the classifieds.
I have a proof set around here in a Capitol holder that was assembled by a drug store. Their name was embossed into the plastic.
I remember when my Grama would give the kids each a dime (always a Mercury Dime).
I remember everyone locating their silver when the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market.
I remember actual silver dollars used in Vegas slots.
I remember when....ahh crap, I forgot what I was going to say.
I remember when a roll of Lifesavers cost a nickel and comics cost 12 cents...and the only thing I thought to save were wheat pennies because they sure looked different!!!!!!!
I do not remember those holders... However, @PerryHall and I seem to have lived through the same period... likely the same age as well....silver dimes, quarters and halves were standard change...Gold was $35/oz... no one had yet flown in space - @keets ...Yep... I have been around the sun quite a few times on spaceship earth...That being said, no one has seen everything.... and I am always willing to learn new things. Cheers, RickO
I was working there then..........
The max for one section was 96 pages. Sections had to be in multiples of 24 pages. For the big shows we would two sections, maybe 72 + 48 or 96 + 48. Largest I ever saw was 192 pages.