Dansco Albums Tone Coins?

In my opinion, coin flips in storage boxes are cumbersome to look through. Albums are a much easier way to view (flip through) my collection.

With that being said, it could be argued that 2x2s and 20-pocket vinyl pages in three-ring binders are better and cheaper than Dansco/Whitman/Etc. This a good point, but I get more enjoyment from them in a Dansco. After all, it is only myself that I need to please.

(I should add that I do have coins in 2x2s and I keep them in Dansco albums with twelve-pocket pages.)

That probably cannot be said enough.

just carl... just telling like it is.

You obviously never met some people that have old cars sitting in their garages and hardly ever take them out. I knew one person that bought a car, put it in his garage, kept it clean and it just sat there. Oddly enough with cars, there are a large variety of people. Some never wash, wax or anything to a car. Others baby them as if they were alive.
Same with coins. Coins are a hobby or a business and all of the participants do things differently. Why there are some people that don't even collect coins.

Interesting that upon Googling my question about whether Dansco albums lead to toning, I should find a new thread! I am considering moving to these, but it would be a huge and costly task. The issue is, I do like to visit my collection from time to time, and the regular pages fall apart with repeated handling. The work involved in a format switch isn't an issue, it is perhaps the most enjoyable (obsessive?) part for me, encapsulating and organizing everything.

I collect world silver, and put smaller ones in 1.5 x 1.5 flips. Larger than 37mm or so along with anything unusually thick or heavy goes into 2.5 x 2.5 flips. A page of twenty 20+ gram coins eventually wears out the page if I handle them too much. The 30 pocket pages for 1.5"ers hold up, while the 12 pocket pages for the big 2.5" mounts are pretty floppy. So the appeal of Dansco is the rigidity and expected durability of the pages and binders. I wouldn't, however, want to find years later that everything had started to tone.

Their pages for flips are an option, because merely being smaller means one page weighs less and has less size to flop around and break. Plus my coins are already in flips, at some point I have to stop buying supplies and re-doing what I've done (ahem, a few times so far). The albums seem more space-saving than regular binders, which are not made for heavy stuff and bow if I'm not careful. I ended up putting most of the the collection in boxes, which makes for compact storage (very important given the confined space they're stored in), but isn't at all exciting.

With the concerns I've mentioned, I'd appreciate your thoughts on whether I should make a switch and if so, whether to go with their traditional pages, the vinyl pages for flips, or something else entirely. Thanks!

Please forgive me for taking so long to get back to this thread. I have never seen that before, and it is a neat product! Perhaps one or two would be warranted for what I most enjoy looking at or might want to show others (though I'm not in the habit of doing that right now.) Thanks for the tip!

Looks good to me.