Started Another Dansco State Qtr Set Today

Oh man, it's like coin nirvana! Here's the Danscos which are full or almost full. I started to bring out the Intercept Shield albums, which are my "A" set, but frankly, it was tiring and I was running out of steam. Some of them are still in the picture.



A couple neat things to point out, (I think so, at least).

1) I have two Euro books, because the Euro book is only designed to hold coins from the original members. I use a second book and a Brother label maker to customize a second book for all the new issuers of Euros.

2) I took a generic half dollar book, flipped the pages over, and started a collection of large UK Pennies, 1862-1967.

3) And, I took a blank Dansco, and put in assorted millimeter pages. In there, I collect various foreign coin sets, ie Aruba 5 cents, Australia 20 cents, etc.

I like some of your ideas jwguts as I really want to do a Canadian type set but can find any good albums for it.

My preference for Canadian coins is Gardmaster albums.

They're brown with gold embossing like Dansco, but a couple big differences.

1) They have a plastic or vinyl cover, unlike the imitation leather of a Dansco. That's the only thing I like less about these compared to Dansco.




2) They use a pouch and slide system, instead of a hole with a plastic slide cover. I like that a LOT more than Dansco.




I've also tried Uni-Safe, and they also have the pouch and slide system. They also seem to have better posts for adding pages. But I leaned toward the Gardmaster because they look better on a bookshelf.

My bank knows me very well, from going there so often.

I try to keep higher value sets, that are completed at the bank. And try to remember what coins I might want to upgrade. I also keep single row 2X2 boxes, for just better coins.

I really dont like those albums witht eh slide out pockets. Once they get older, the slide outs tends to stick to the pages. I had to take a pair of tin snips to the last set of those I dealt with. And the coins were not in that great a shape. I dont think it protected them at all well. Coins from the same collection kept in the same conditions in Whitmans version of the Dansco albums were just fine.

I just picked up the P&D National Parks Dansco album off ebay for $6.50 with free shipping talk about score now I can start the National Parks quarters.

I have been debating getting a Dansco for my Statehood Quarters but was in the coin shop and they have the two album set with the proofs complete for $175 that seems like the best value to me. I mean ok so I have all the P&D's if I blow $60 on two albums I'd have to manage to get all the proofs for $115. That seems unlikely as there are 100 coins (both silver and clad proofs) seems very unlikely I'd manage to go each coin for about a dollar a coin with the silver proofs. I could just sell my current set that at worse case scenario is $25 face value and just get the completed sets with proofs.

I must say that GR58 has been a great resource for modern coins and information about them. Recently he had provided me with a 1932-1998 Dansoc album nearly full with the clad coins including proofs. Back in the 70's I had decided to only collect silver and my quarters ran derelict for over 30 years. He has re-sparked my interest in the series and has been a great collaborator since I joined this sight.