Received Today: Intercept Shield Lincoln Cents Album Omg!

I dont know why that album of mine is like that. I got those two as a gift from my uncle, he has nothing but intercepts(has to always have "the best") He also has one thats loose, not the Lincoln cents but some other kind. The only other kind of album I have are whitmans, because I like the blue color with the silver coins. The intercepts seem more heavy-duty than the whitmans, but the loose coin problem is kinda irritating.

Looks exactly like a Dansco to me. I will have to see if I can find any around here to look at in hand.

Ah... it goes well beyond "looks." From the Intercept Shield website:

"All coin albums are lined with Intercept Shield. They are constructed of acid and sulfur-free, high-grade materials. Until now, it has been virtually impossible to keep your valued coins out of harm's way. Corrosive gases in the environment can be found anywhere, and everywhere. They are produced not only by some of the most natural things on earth: such as vegetation, ocean surfaces and wetlands. Even worse, the most common and most potent of these gases - sulfur and chlorine are two of the major causes of metal corrosion.

Before Intercept technology was developed, the three available methods of corrosion protection were volatile corrosion inhibitors (VCIs), activated charcoal and protective oils. However, they all had inherent flaws that could, under certain conditions, lead to marring or corrosion of the metal surfaces they were meant to protect.

The patented Intercept Shield â„¢Technology uses a totally unique approach to protecting metals from corrosion. Unlike volatile components or oils, it will not coat the metal's surface. The way Intercept Shield â„¢ works is by acting as a sacrificial corrosion agent. In other words, when corrosive gases come in contact with the Intercept Shield â„¢ material, they are instantly neutralized.

The Intercept Shield â„¢ reacts with the gases in a permanent and irreversible chemical reaction, thus actually cleaning the environment around the coin. So ingenious is the technology, that it is statistically improbable for any corrosive gas, including ammonia and ozone, to migrate all the way through the Intercept Shield â„¢ material without being neutralized by an active corrosion reaction site."

http://www.interceptshield.com/products.html

Les

Just Carl will be chiming in with some "Whitman Album" comments soon enough.....

I'm mostly a Dansco man myself.....But I do have a Whitman album with the sleeves that is very nice..... and very BLUE too ! ...

LoL I was thinking the same thing.

I LOVE my Intercept shield albums. I have 3 of em.

And that is due to having well over 100 of them. I do agree that Dansco today is a better product than most others and they are basically consistant in their quality. Unlike most other brands today. Intercept Shields, as noted here already, are on the inconsistant side. Like Littleton though I just don't think Green looks great for coin Albums. I've only had one Intercept Shield and one Littleton Album and gave them away.
Oddly enough so many like Dansco due to the so called Rich, Leathery look yet most of the same people hide those Albums away. Coin Albums are usually not a display for all item so overall looks usually means little.
Whitman USED to be really great with quality and would be consistant in that area. However, I too must admit Dansco is a far better quality now. I just don't like the fact I can't get the slides out without some major problems.
And a Brownish Album just takes away the looks on a any Copper Coin making them difficult to see easily. And Silver too looks better with a Blue background.
And of course I have been getting all my Albums free for so long now that I actually have many Dansco's as well as Whitman. It appears that more and more people are selling off collections in Whitman Albums which is why dealers at coin shows come up with so many of them.
Yes I'm a Whitman person, mostly.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If it's space your worried about, use the dollar sized 2x2's and put several small coins in each one. Then you could have 3 Dimes per 2x2. Jammed into those 20 pocket plastic pages you end up with 60 coins per page. And if you don't care about the reverses, put 6 in a dollar sized 2x2 with the backs to each other.
I wonder if you wrote to the manufacturers of those 20 pocket page setups and asked for possibly a hundred pocket page, then you could put coins in each pocket without the 2x2.