Started Another Dansco State Qtr Set Today

I am trying to stay focused I just want to complete a 7070 just once LOL then I can worry about upgrading. I have done very good my last 4 coins or so have all been for my 7070 (picked up my 3 cent silver piece yesterday a 1861 in Fine, I was tempted by a Seated Liberty quarter, dime and Half Dime though but that was the nicest trime they had in my budget and didn't want anyone else grabbing it, I am trying to stay around the $50 coin unless I see something that really catches my eye like I saw a nice XF and AU Type 1 Standing Liberty quarter I'll save up for). If I ever finish then I'll look at upgrading some of the coins. My next purchase won't be for my 7070 I had her order me a Whitman Classic 20th Century type album for my little boy and I'll grab him the Franklin half he needs when I get it. First coin in that book will be a franklin as that was the very first numismatic coin I ever bought as I started with silver rounds until I saw the Franklins.

I have done well they have a Boy Scout commemorative that I really want for $39 but I keep putting it off for the 7070 coins.

I've gotten my 1932-1998 Quarter set whipped into pretty good shape, proofs and all. BUT, every time I saw the sorry looking 32-D and 32-S in that book, I cringed. Like you guys, I had a lot of trouble justifying hundreds of dollars for a single coin.

My solution so far... I packed up my 32-D and 32-S for safe keeping, and plunked REPLICAs into my Dansco album. Ha-ha! Those coins don't stand out like a sore thumb anymore. Yes, they are like "placeholders" but I know I have the actual coins stored away.

Your collection, your rules.

My mercury collection, come to think of it, also has a replica: the 1916-D. Obviously, right?

Not quite as nice a set as my quarters, but in this case I simply will never own that coin. And yet, I must fill that hole.

Those are all my Dansco's laid out except for the second Ike album. That one is up for sale, so I left it out. Now, all of these are not complete, but a lot are. Including the evil Statehood set. LOL AND, this is only MY set. This is not including VACookeys.

I have no complete sets and only two danscos currently going. The 7070 and a Sacagawea. I do have a Whitman album for Presidential dollars, a folder for Statehood Quarters and a 20th century type album to replace the folder I had on that one.

I just did a page for modern commemorative halves that when its complete I'll throw it in the back of the Dansco just bought the 89 Congress and 91 Mount Rushmore. They don't make a lot of modern commemorative halves seemed silly to do an album for just 2 pages but then again my Sacagawea is just two pages (but I will just buy the extra pages when we get there).

That's two great shots. Is this going to be the "new normal" shot of a collection?! It sure is eye catching and also fuels my own OCD. I might have to do one too. Not all Dansco's, though.

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.