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You might need to take a break between pages!
The energy from your excitement is getting transferred into the page turns! May have to agree with you... need to stop looking at my coins... Need to stop looking at my coins... |
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If you figure out how to do that, let me know. Asking for a friend.  |
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I figured if I get more albums I wouldn't look at each one as much, nope I just spend more time looking at all ;)
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I just spend more time looking at all What used to take two hours now takes all day.  |
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What used to take two hours now takes all day. I was born in 2000 and I get the reference.  |
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I was born in 2000 and I get the reference. Actually, that is rather impressive.  |
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Sammy Hagar I can't drive 55.. who would have guessed it :)
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Just found this thread. Was reading through and thought of an old thread I made showing how I solved the Dansco-no-pull-out-slides-easily problem mentioned in this thread: http://goccf.com/t/140384Simple fix. |
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That's a great fix for Dansco. After using the albums for over a year, I'm going to update my grading.
1) Dansco are still the best albums out there! They are well built and durable. They have some minor issues but overall still the best (if you can find it)
2) Littleton moves up to 2, for one major reason, they are better built than Whitman.
3) Whitman moves down to 3 and I'm serious tempted to not get any more. The major issue is the quality. Several pages are losing the blue. This started on the walking liberties but I've seen on pages that have heavy coins. They still have lots of good features but be careful with the blue pages coming apart. I would be reluctant to recommend them based on my experience. I haven't changed any albums but I can't say the Whitman albums will last long term.
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hjfacinto, I have plenty of your #3 ranked Whitman albums and while I really do like them, I agree with you, they're not the quality of Dansco. I like the look of silver coins against the blue and I like the embossed text labels vs. Dansco's script. I do have a couple of albums with pages that are delaminating at the corners from a bit too much flipping through and enjoying. I generally use Whitmans for "from circulation" collections. Expandable via Chicago Post rivets for page binding. Due to their superior quality I have a number of Danscos for the sets I am using for "proof & MS" albums. I like that you can get dust covers for these and that they use Chicago post rivets for page binding so that you can add pages. I don't like that there isn't a thumb-notch to ease in removing/positioning the acetate slides. I do have one unused Littleton that I received for free. I like the metal grommets they employ to reinforce the page holes. This is especially good on the album I have given it's an ASE album and the pages can get *heavy* when well-populated. I like the green color as well. Don't necessarily care for the "snap binder" page binding. Bottom line: I like them all. |
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I have both Dansco and Whitman Albums. I'm having trouble reading the labels in my Whitman dime album. Thinking or using a label maker to relabel the dimes. That's just annoying.
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I have Dansco albums, and have started replacing with Intercept Shield which in my opinion are superior, gimmick or not, they cost about the same and are made better sturdier and comes with the hard case, its not extra purchase like Dansco. I also like the pages they are like the litteleton but green instead of blue. I bought the first Intercept shield because the Dansco version couldn't be found it was out of stock everywhere. It doesn't have D-Rings the pages are attached in same way as Dansco.
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Its over 5 months since I last updated this and I'll stay with the above ratings. While I still really like the size and look of the Whitman albums, the pages falling apart still worry me. I did end up getting a Dansco for the Bison Nickels and a Dansco for the ASE and I appreciate the quality but they are very hard to find. If Littleton made the binders a little smaller I would actually get Littleton more but the binders take up so much space. All in all, I think all 3 binders are good. I'll revisit in a year to let you know how they are holding up. |
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