How Long Have 2x2s Been Around?

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  kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭

  November 21, 2004 9:23AM

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

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  Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 21, 2004 9:24AM

  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.

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  mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭

  November 21, 2004 9:53AM

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

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  dorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭

  November 22, 2004 12:37AM

  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

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  mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭

  November 22, 2004 1:05AM

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

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