Debating = Dansco 7070 "Not Worth" Completing?

It's all the thrill of the hunt.
To find the best coins at the best prices. sooner or later, all the holes will have something in them.
For Me personally, trying to fill any book, whether it be a type set or a specific set makes it all "goal oriented"
This theoretically keeps me focused on a goal as opposed to buying just to buy.
Oh...make no mistake about it, that will happen. (I know Me)
I guess that's the difference between collecting and hoarding. (I have enough hoards already)

I completed my 7070 recently after working on it for around 4 years. I didn't spend more than $300 for any one coin in it and am pretty satisfied with the way the coins look.

If you are patient (and want to complete it), it can be done.

Overall, I think it is ok to collect with the intention of some holes never being filled. I am working on a Lincoln Cent 7100 album also and am not sure I will ever fill the 1909-S VDB slot.

Best regards,
Ken

Perfect point by Curio Bill: how many people on this forum have Lincoln wheat albums that they know they will never fill!

I am always tempted by the 7070, but have not taken the plunge yet. I think it will be a great learning experience. I have no legit reason for not starting except for those nagging do-able sets I start and don't complete, plus hoarding to be done, etc & so forth, ad infinitum...

Yeah, it's all holes in the beginning. Haha.

After all this talk, I feel like looking into the 7070 again.

Ok I'm new here and this forum has been the most talk I've seen about the slider type album known as a Dansco or Whitman coin album. I had bad experiences with the albums made in 1970s, they trapped gases and toned coins badly. Since then I've never understood why a collector had to fill holes in a pre-printed album if they had advanced from being simply a novice collector. Once you get down the basics, collect what you like, there's no point in filling an album with coins you do not enjoy spending money on or have no intention of filling, which then becomes more of a chore than a hobby. Part of the great thing about coin collecting is the free form aspect of it, as someone said on another posting, it's as specific as a rifle shot, or scattered like a shotgun. But let me NOT belittle those that enjoy the goal oriented albums, more power to you! Happy collecting

Hmmm, interesting thoughts. I have a type collection, sort-of - got a bunch of different varieties of many denominations. I didn't realize there was a nice Dansco album to hold them. I may have to look into this. Thanks.

I had been saving my type coins in air-tites to place into an album in the future, after reading ianmprice's offerings on "down with the 7070"
I have again re-thought my collection. I have settled on the title of;



With coins now free of the air-tites and placed in 2X2 holders I have utilized a 60 slot Coin Album to house the 1/2 cent through 1 dollar set
not all "types", but each denomination represented.



More can be viewed here;

http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...hp?album=799

Or here;

http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...p?album=1002

I thought I was going to be overwhelmed with the 7070 album but when it did arrive I already had a big majority of the coins already in my collection to fill allot of the holes. There are some holes that are hard to fill on a small budget and some are hard to find at all in higher grades even if you have the money to spend but I really enjoyed working on it when I was filling the holes. I haven't added anything to the album in over a year now but hopefully by the first of next year I will be able to finally finish the album and then I will actually feel as though I have accomplished something