Coin Holders

I prefer an album such as Dansco, it allows both sides to be seen, keeps them in order, gives a quick overall visual that: 1. shows which coins are needed to fill the "holes", 2. displays the coins in a nice array without having to physically arrange the coins from a tray, 3. gives excellent protection, and 4. gives a sense of accomplishment as you fill the empty spaces finally getting that last one in place. JMHO, for me it is the only way to go; but I don't like steak sauce on my steak and many others do...matter of personal taste and preference. There are many other very good ways to do the coins, you just have to weigh them all and decide what floats your boat the highest.

I have a four year-old son. I bought him one of those maps that has cut-outs for the quarters. Whenever he does something like feed the cat or help clean up after his little brother, I give him another circulated quarter to add to the map. It helps him learn the states plus I can explain a little about the states by what is on the quarters.

The Dansco album would work nice. If you did do Airtites they do make a State Quarter album that hold the coin inside the airtite, but IIRC they're kind of expensive.

I was just looking around for coin holders my self and I cam across this website that explains what to use and why things might not be so good to use. Hopefully this might help ya a little. http://rg.ancients.info/guide/holders.html

great site imanange, thanxz for posting.

Absolutely,

Here's their site. Order a free catalog http://www.airtiteholders.com/



(sorry had to edit to add the link Doh!)

Thank you for the advice on the air-tite holders. I will order some.

As already mentioned you really can't beat an album with plastic slides and both sides of the coins are visible. They are made by Whitman, Dansco, Littleton and several others. Naturally they are more expesive but well worth it when you see the final results. Whitman Albums, as an example, can be purchased as quarter albums and you have the ability to add or remove pages. Most are similar. They look like books, can be put in a book case, prevent kids from constantly touching the coins, coins will not fall out, are easy to add new coins and so much more. 2x2's, plastic pages that hold 20, fit into a common 3 ring notebook binder but look like a school project. Air tights will make your kids loose interest as a general rule. Very young kids can and will change interest as fast as possible and anything that is to difficult is quickly dissmissed.
Please note that any of the binder or folder type setups for those quarters do not allow both sides to be seen, require a great effort to insert into the slot which means a nice big thumb print on the coin, occationally coins are pushed right through. Glue on the back of the slots also effects the coins.