CAPS Coin Albums

Hi, I have been using them for a few months, and so far I think they are great. Well worth the money. Here is a link to my review of them

https://goccf.com/t/240742#240742

Why do you hate dansco? The only reason your coins could have been ruined is if you have not been storing them properly. It's not on danscos side that the coins were damaged.

My oldest Dansco albums are right at 31 years old. Never a problem, never a complaint. However, I will add that I do like the CAPS albums.

I wouldn't say Dansco tones coins but for most of my proofs they are changing around the edges. I too like blast white coins.

I've got a complete set of BU blast white Washington quarters and I've bought all new proofs from '64-'98 because of the Dansco albums. All the statehood and above are okay so far but I really want to get them out of the Dansco albums soon.

Plus my biggest problem with Dansco is it's nearly impossible to get update pages for their albums.

With the Caps albums you can even customize your own pages. Like in the back of all my Dansco circulating coin sets I've got a blank page with all the proofs from '50-'59 and I can now make pages from caps for those proofs that show the year and Proof.

To Cilrah: The Washington quarter CAPS Album #2094 has spaces for proofs 1950 to 1964.

I have been thinking about buying them, but have not taken the plunge. I am considering the Kennedy Caps Album because of the reasons you mention-- and because I will then have spots for my 2014 variety types from the special set. However, I do not want to include the 3/4 oz gold coin and the Caps Album lets you make custom pages, so I can do whatever I want with that last page. For these reasons I like them.

But because they are so expensive I am not considering them for my circulated coins or even my less expensive BU coins such as Roosevelt and Jefferson.

After the Kennedy, not sure what I consider the value trade off, maybe my BU Franklin set or various quarter series or type. Not sure any other BU set I own would be worth enough to justify the expense of the album.

Capsules are an execellent way to preserve and store coins.
Albums are a very good way to present a series of coins. If coins are to be added to the series, the annotated album system is a bit too inflexible for some collectors, when it comes to presentation.
Neverthless, a cap album is an attempt to answer both needs, (preservation and presentation).

Slabbed coins don't fit into either of these systems, but slab albums DO exist.

Some sorts of collections don't lend themselves to any of these preservation / display systems, for example, ancient or hammered coins where the individual coin holder can take the details of the coin contained therein (2x2's).

Which of the system(s) you end up with has to be a personal choice, which is largely dictated by the type of collection you have.

I see that Eagle even has 40 pocket albums for mint sets.
That would be a good 'nudge' the U.S. Mint to produce mint set and proof set cases of a standard size.

Singer, my understanding is that the ogp capsule for the modern commemoratives do not fit into the Caps Album. They would have to be transferred to an airtite and then placed in the album.