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I am putting together a set of wartime nickels and was trying to decide how to store/display them. I didn't want to pay for a capital Plastics holder and I didn't want to put them in a blank Dansco album page so I decided to put them in a vintage Don Hirschorn Jefferson nickel folder 1938-65. I figured I would put them in this older album and then go ahead and fill in the rest of the holes since it wouldn't really cost that much to do so.     Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Nice start on the set.  Keep us posted on your progress. David |
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That looks like a very nice start to a set of War Nickels. Nice 50-d, I think I would invest in a nice Dansco. Very nice coins, looks like you are going for a premium set. The dansco would make for better presentation and preservation. |
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If you are going to do a BU set you might want to consider buying a Capital Plastic holder.  |
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Two things factored in my decision to go with the folder, first the Dansco album contains a lot more dates than I wanted, second, since I already had the folder and couldn't find a nice used Capital Plastics holder of any style and was unwilling to pay the extra for a new one I opted for the folder. However, I do like the one pictured with the Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi, OORAH! I would have positioned the holes a bit differently to better frame the central image. I am not a nickel set collector and this is the first time I ever began to put together any sort of nickel set and the folder will do just fine. When its done I'll seal it up in a comic bag and put it away. My current and future projects: 19th Century type set (BU) 27 coins, have 11 20th Century type set (BU) 23 piece set completed 20th Century type set (BU) 18 piece set, have 6 Seated Liberty major type set Half Dime - dollars (AU50-AU58) 40 piece set, have 7 Dansco 7070 (XF-AU) 6 holes to fill plus the gold page Jefferson nickel set 1938-65 (BU) Peace dollars (BU) Not yet started Walking Liberty halves 1935-47 (BU) Not yet started Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Note you said Album and that is a Folder. Big difference. I always strongly suggest not using Folders for long term storage of any coins. Please use the Search tab at the top for possible numerous topics on Folders and Albums.
For your coins you may want to contact Whitman Pubhlishing for a catalog of their products. They make mamy types of plasatic holders for coins and not in Albums or Folders. Or you could make your own Album for those with all the many types of flips and those pages that hold 20 of them.
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Note you said Album and that is a Folder. Big difference. Actually no, there is not. This Dansco album is copyrighted 1952 and is no different than the Don Hirschhorn folder of the late 1960's to early 1970's pictured in this thread  .  I don't use Whitman products, never have, it is probably unlikely I ever will. The whole point of putting the coins in this folder is that in five years or so they should have begun to tone and that is exactly what my goal is, to have a nice patina develop on an otherwise very drab Jefferson nickel. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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That is a Dansco 'folder'...
The generally accepted difference between 'album' and 'folder', in the
numismatic sense, is that albums are pages in binders with the coins
visible both obverse and reverse. Folders only display one side of the
coins, and are generally not in binder form.
The problem with folders is that they do not conserve the coins very well.
Many were made with materials that were harmful to coins.
Edit:
I notice that the old Dansco uses the word "Album" on the
front. It may have been accepted as an "album" before my
lifetime, but it is not what has been called an 'album' in
the last 35 years that I have been collecting.
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07/10/2012 01:34 am
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I like your idea Gyrene. I have several MS silver War Nickels with that nice warm golden tone. It is such an even overall clean tone not found elsewhere in my collection. |
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If you just want War Nickels, just fill up the whole album with War Nickels. That's what I did with a Kennedy album. Just filled entirely with AU/MS silvers. |
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In my experience over the last 40+ years collecting coins the terms album and folder have been used interchangeably for two the folders shown above and albums exclusively for the binders having pages with the plastic windows for viewing both sides of the coin. Quote:
The problem with folders is that they do not conserve the coins very well. Many were made with materials that were harmful to coins. That may be true but this folder is for Jefferson nickels, Jefferson nickels. Most of these coins aren't worth enough to worry about whatever effect the album will have on them. I wouldn't put silver coins in one of these old folders, or even the new folders being produced today because I want to see both sides of the coin. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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