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The Mint is throwing spaghetti at the wall so fast the publishers would never be able to keep up.
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I was going to question your expecting them to have a fixed FDR page when we are still waiting on a fixed ATB album and a new 7070!  Go for the blank pages, that is what I have been doing since around the turn of the century.  |
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JBuck...
It's funny, I thought to myself today "Now I just need to buy a blank page to
take my FDR Dansco into the future." As soon as that crossed my mind, I started
to remember I had already bought a page late last year. I dug out my Dansco,
hoping to see a blank dimes page, and sure enough it was dated. I have been
going through some health issues since last year, and I have just been "accumulating",
and not "assembling". That's how I have been buying stuff and forgetting about it.
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Having an "album centric" collection is a relatively new thing for me.
I have been collecting for nearly 40 years, but I have only been taking
my modern coins out of the mint packaging and setting up Danscos for
less than 10 years.
In today's climate, with the mint throwing curve balls left and right,
it seems that staying with OGP would have been the ticket. But I like
the albums. They have really grown on me. I just hope I live to see
Dansco catch up to the mint's wacky ways.
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Congrats for your courage to break out the MOD dimes and Silver Kennedy set and throw them in an album.
I am always paranoid when removing a coin from one of my Dansco albums when I find an upgrade roll hunting that the slides will scratch the coins.
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I have purchased several of each of the "popular" sets over the past couple years.
This way I will have my JFK album full (but for gold), and I'll have sets still in
OGP. Same with the CC set and the "enhanced" golden dollars, and this MoD set.
I got the albums full, I got one perfect OGP set of each put back, and I have a
couple to either sit on or rehome at my own discretion, depending on the aftermarket.
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Bedrock of the Community
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As the owner of a large collection of Dansco albums, I understand what your feeling. But Look at what Dansco's point of view might be. - Collectors want albums now. -- Make tens of thousands of albums for them, Send those albums out to retailers and keep some in stock for future orders. Then .. oh no .. the mint just put out a coin that makes all those albums .... not exactly what collectors want. What should Dansco do, recall all those albums and make new albums ... only to have the problem start all over next year .. when the mint decides to make another coin that is not planned. The Roosevelt dime album for example. Dansco put out the replacement page in 2013, here we are in 2015 and that page may not be what all collectors want. Some may want the MoD dimes .. some do not. Either way Dansco put out a product less that two years ago, and the mint put out the new dimes ... ======================================================== I think this has been discussed before. In my opinion, all we can do is wait for a series to end, or a album get to a point where Dansco can make a replacement page. Then hope they will put out a new product that will make the collectors happy. |
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This is exactly why I prefer keeping Mint Sets and Proof Sets intact and store them in Eagle albums for modern issues. I did have to put together a couple of Dansco albums for the 2005-2010 non-satin circulation strikes, but that wasn't too bad.
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GR58,
I was just blowing off frustration.
I know what you say is the heart of the problem, and Dansco has no hope of making anyone happy in this situation.
I'm just venting over an impossible problem.
Blank pages are the way to go now.
Takes away the nice look of preprinting, but oh well.
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Bedrock of the Community
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ratio411 I do understand your frustration .... I also have albums that I would like to put coins into, but there is no hole. Of course there are some that have a hole that I don't like, like the 1922 no D Lincoln. I also have some where I use blank pages. And I have a vision of how I would like it labeled, have the label maker. But that also takes some skill to get all those labels on correctly and straight. Even on my blank page custom albums. I have some where I put coins in the pages and before I label them, I am changing what coins I want. One album I did have labeled and spent a hour peeling labels off of two pages, because I changed what coins I wanted. This coin collecting is hard sometimes .... |
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No problems with Whitman Albums. I just keep adding blank pages and use their press on numbers on the pages.
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I have gotten a little behind the assembling as well.  As you indicate, this can be a good thing, to better handle the US Mint curve balls. I have gotten used to the blank pages because there is a pattern that allow me to know what is where without having to see the dates on coins. It is one reason why I want keep my dimes and half dollars in the OGP instead of the albums. Time will tell. I have changed my mind before. |
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This is nothing new. I have a Whitman Kennedy half dollar album copyrighted 1964 and printed in 1964 which has coin openings dated 1964, 1964-D, 1965, 1965-D and the rest of the page has blank holes. Whitman did not know when they printed up this album for the new Kennedy half dollars there would not be a D mint mark in 1965. |
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Quote:
Blank pages are the way to go now.
Takes away the nice look of preprinting, but oh well. I've seen some nice implementations where folks print coin labels on transparencies, then cut them to size and punch holes, then insert them in front of the appropriate album page. I imagine it takes some fussing but it produces a nice look. The transparencies might move around a bit when flipping through pages but it's an option. I'd like for the album companies to offer a custom solution where you could supply them with the labels you want and they print it for you at a premium... maybe a build-it-yourself thing like Shutterfly where you do all the design work and they just print it out. Not sure if there's a business case for such a thing but it would be nice! Edited by CelticKnot
05/12/2015 6:15 pm
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Quote:I have a Whitman Kennedy half dollar album copyrighted 1964 and printed in 1964 which has coin openings dated 1964, 1964-D, 1965, 1965-D and the rest of the page has blank holes. Whitman did not know when they printed up this album for the new Kennedy half dollars there would not be a D mint mark in 1965. Little things like that make you smile.  |
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