Best Way To Store Half Dollars 1930-1980

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I have a bunch of half dollars that have just been in 2x2 row boxes. I took the best one from each date and put the 2x2 into binder pages. I like the look ok but it doesn't have the same feel of a Dansco/Whitman/library of coins albums. I was happy with this storage until I took a closer look at especially the Liberty Walking halves, they all have verdigris of varying degrees. I know they are in PVC free flips now, but it looks like before that, they were not. So they all have to be taken out and put through an acetone cleaning anyway. Just curious what to do with them after for long term storage (decades). options are
-put them back in 2x2's and back in the binder pages, it's kind of nice that all from the series that I have fit into one 3 ring binder with picking one from each date
- get albums for them, would probably do old library of coins ones for the Liberty walking and possibly dansco for the franklins and Kennedy's (open to opinions on this, I'm not opposed to toning, the MS coins are currently blast white)
If I didn't have to take them all out of their flips anyway, I'd just leave them and move onto another project. Just considering albums because I like the toning on some old quarters in have in LoC albums from the 50s/60s.
Thanks

You can do the same thing only with AirTite type of rounds and Lighthouse ENCAP sheets. I do 2x2's for cents, dimes, nickels, quarters and AirTites for my halves and dollars, and all of my BU Bullion sets. Slabbed coins are in a similar set-up.

Nice set you have there!

Edited by dsking
03/31/2023 12:31 pm

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That's another idea dsking. Do you have a picture of what they look like in ENCAP sheets? Do you do any sort of labeling for date/grade etc? My slabs are in Lighthouse Intercept boxes inside of an intercept row box, at least for long term storage of the nicer ones and just PCGS slab boxes for the others, I would like to see what they look like in binder pages though. Would be harder to store that many though in the safe using binder pages I think though.

I decided to move most of my miscellaneous 2x2 stuff (which are in Dansco albums using the 12-pocket pages) into blank Dansco millimeter pages. I have a plan, I just need the pages!

However, it seems like everyone is out of stock. It seems that Dansco has been behind on everything since their move to WA state...

https://www.danscousa.com/

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Do you have a picture of what they look like in ENCAP sheets?

Here are some examples:

http://goccf.com/t/331184#2830380
http://goccf.com/t/331184#2833032
http://goccf.com/t/419346#3606804
http://goccf.com/t/439874#3788651

ooh, I like the caps albums, I'll have to look into it more.
Thanks for all the links, super helpful!

Check your lcs (local coin store) for the pages that hold TPG slabs, that is where I got mine. Mine is one of the Eagle brand ones, and it works great!

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Thanks for all the links, super helpful!

My pleasure!

Dansco doesn't make an album for "S" business strike quarters. I bought a Dansco 7140 album and a label maker. I just got the albums today so I don't have pictures of mine yet. Use alcohol to remove the print on the sheets and make your own labels. You could use a Dansco 7166, EBay for around $40 and comes with 6 pages. There's a post on Modern Coins section about how to do this for the Innovation dollars.

I've never really looked into using air tites because there wasnt really a good way to label the coins etc, but with the caps album pages you can even make custom pages and add your own descriptions or coding system to the pages which is really nice. Looks like they currently offer custom pages in 3 sizes so I will have to look and see if those are the sizes I need. I won't get pretty rainbow album toning from them, but I have a dozen regular albums already. I have a complete Eisenhower dollar album including proofs that might be better suited in air tites then the dansco album. Fun, I'm excited!

Anthony, I have thought about doing that too, I did see you can buy blank pages but most seem out of stock right now. I will look into maybe doing that with all the dimes, I'm just done with everything in 2x2 row boxes, can't look at anything properly and everything gets out of order etc.

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03/31/2023 3:15 pm

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I have a complete Eisenhower dollar album including proofs that might be better suited in air tites then the dansco album.

I always love reading about a completed Ike set.

The Dansco 8176 Ike album was the first album I finished. I still have it as it was when completed 30 years ago. No upgrades or moving it to a different storage solution. I recently completed a second Ike set in PCGS slabs which is kept in a Lighthouse box. A third set is planned, possibly in CAPS or Encap album, or even in a Capital Plastics holder. Not sure yet.

jbuck, how fun! How have the Ikes faired in the dansco album? Are they still fairly white or are they toning?

For the most part, they look the same as they did when I put them in.

I should add some caveats... All my 40% coins have that cloudy/milky surface common to the cheaper ones. I suppose that has protected them from further toning. Some of my clad proofs have a nice bullseye toning that may have progressed since I bought them, but it is difficult to tell since I have no before pictures to compare and human memory is fallible. My Dansco albums have always resided in a climate controlled environment, which helps regardless of the storage method.

I admit that I was less discriminate with my purchases back then. Ikes were relatively expensive for my budget at the time, so I took what I could afford. The Dansco set is sentimental, so I could never upgrade them. This is the reason why I built the second set in PCGS slabs to compliment it.

Jbuck, I totally understand that. This one is strangely sentimental even though I didn't complete it myself and I did not inherit it. I bought it some 5/6 years ago off ebay for my son to play with coins with my dad (who was the big coin collector), a way for them to bond. So I bought it complete, in the album for about $160 range I think. I always write notes to the seller about where their items are going and I ended up striking up a really nice conversation with an older lady who informed me that the coins were her late husbands and they didn't have any children so she was selling things on ebay. She was touched about the story of my buying the set for my 8 yr old that she added sweet notes to him about how to keep them nice, and to not clean them. She also added a couple Buffalo nickels and some uncirculated quarter mint sets for him too. There is a real human factor about coin collecting and I will never forget that. So yeah, the ike collection is special to us and I feel quite attached to it. I think about that lady often and wished I had went back and looked at anything else she might have sold, but I didnt. I did keep all her notes and extras with the Ikes too.

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