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Valued Member
 United States
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Oh, thanks. I thought there was something that the coins went into before putting them in the Dansco book.
Yeah, I need those sleeves as well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm a Dansco fan, too.
Walkers don't fit snugly in my Dansco Walker album...wish they did.
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Moderator
 United States
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Some people have made shims to hold their large cents snug. I have thought about doing this, but have not yet. For now I try to be extra careful when I flip through my 7070.
Edited by jbuck
05/01/2009 2:03 pm
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United States
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I recently moved from folders to Dansco albums myself and love them.
My only complaint with them so far is that I wish the pages for cents and dimes were a bit thinner. Those coins can seem a little lost in the slot due to the depth, especially the dimes, if you push them to one side (front or back) its like they're down in a deep hole.
Oh yeah, and the sliding of the plastic back and forth is a bit of a pain. Dansco needs the thumbnail pull-tabs like whitman albums!
Given those complaints, I still think they look classier than the other brands of albums out there at the moment.
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Valued Member
United States
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I am a big Dansco fan, as well. I acquired all of mine as Christmas gifts. I just put them on my list to my family every year, until I had all of them that I wanted. It is an inexpensive gift for them to get you, while it is still something that you want.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My problem with all these albums are the sliding plastic things. If you want to add or replace one coin, you have to slide the thing past 4-7 other coins - thus risking contact and damage.
If there were an album which had the protection that the plastic offers but would allow you to slide it up and down to work with one coin at a time, I would be all over it!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with Kabiye_Lady that you take a chance scratching up your coins each time you have to add a coin or upgrade a coin. They are better than keeping them in the little folders and give a nicer presentation to your coins but I do hate taking that chance of damage when sliding the inserts out.
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United States
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The only album I have where the slides might come into contact with the coins is my Eisenhower dollar album because the coins are almost as thick as the pages. While Half Dollars are borderline, the pages are thicker than the coins in all of the other albums. The coins are thin enough to be well away from either plastic slide. |
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Canada
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I also use a Dansco for my Lincoln cents and think it's alright. What I love are the unisafe albums made by unitrade in Canada. I am not sure if they make the same type of album anywhere else but I do know you can buy a blank album here, and any additional pages you may need. I am sure it would not take much effort at all to make your own date labels to print off or you could just hand write it you have nice writing (which I dont) I prefer to be able to just pull the tab out and not expose any coins. And they have a thick paper in between each page to further help prevent damage from the coins clanging against each other when you turn pages. I believe they also make pages with a variety of pocket sizes so any type of album could be created. http://www.unitradeassoc.com/   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Malissa, thanks for showing those. One place in their catalog they refer to the strips as plastic, and in another they call them vinyl. I wonder if they are PVC-free?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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When I give the kids and grandkids numismatic gifts in the form of coin albums, it's always Dansco.
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Canada
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Malissa, thanks for showing those. One place in their catalog they refer to the strips as plastic, and in another they call them vinyl. I wonder if they are PVC-free? I believe the confusion is because the insert is a stiffer material and the outside page is softer. I guess it is plastic insert and vinyl pages. I do know that unitrade makes some pretty high quality stuff and like any other company out there, the older albums probably have pvc and the newer stuff would be pvc-free. I know I have been using for quite a few years now and have not had a problem even in the older albums I had. (though I switched them out anyway just to be on the safe side) |
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United States
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I cut small shims out of a 2x2 myself to make all my coins snug in my 7070 album. Its a pain to get them in there and stuff but I just can't stand having my coins spin around and flop around in the album so it was definitely worth the time
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I recently bought the new Dansco for Lincoln cents since 1909.
I like that they split up the wheats and memorial cents, so you get a few blank slots after 1958.
I like that they had the proper slots for 2009.
I don't like that they printed dates and mint marks for 2010+. They included 2010-P, 2010-D and so on until...2021! That assumes there won't be any change in the coinage, which is not a safe bet. I would have much rather just had numerous empty slots.
-wheatiefan
Edited by wheatiefan
05/31/2009 01:45 am
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