Question Re: Album Storage Of First Day Coin Covers

They look to be similar to the size of a mint set. If they are the same size eagle also makes sheets for mint sets that you can put in 3 ring binders.

http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/eag...int-set.html

Not usually associated with stamps, but you may want to try the Whitman web site. Request a catalog. Near the end of that catalog is many pages dealing with stamps by Harris. Nothing to loose and a free catalog.

Thanks to all for the feedback so far. The article that CelticKnot posted was informative, although like him, I don't think I want a solution that's one cover per page. Someone on another forum (CoinTalk) suggested the following:

http://www.mdstamp.com/index.php?ma...4c83eedd2240

They're PVC free, but I wonder if they're the right size for coin covers (I guess I'll measure when I get home to figure it out). Also, the description mentions the pages having black background inserts. I'd be fine if they we're removable so that both sides of the cover would be viewable, but I'm not sure if they are. I'll try to call the supplier and find out.

Someone else on CoinTalk pointed me to this:
http://www.mysticstamp.com/viewProd...sp?sku=DS950

This might actually be the album I have or similar to it, but no picture is included on their website, but I'm not for sure. Apparently, the album I have was made by Fleetwood, which was purchased by Mystic. THe link above is the only FDC album on he Mystic site that has a description that at least somewhat matches the album I have.

-Brian

CelticKnot -

I've ordered two of these in brown (trying to get them to look as close to Danscos as possible), and waiting for them to arrive:

http://www.mdstamp.com/index.php?ma...4c83eedd2240

I was planning to update once they arrived, and I had a chance to evaluate. I will mention that I did call the seller, and they did say the black inserts mentioned in the product description are removable, so that both sides of the covers are visible. We'll see.

-Brian

* bump *

Did your order show up yet? I was traveling all last week so haven't gotten anything ordered yet.

For CelticKnot and whoever else is interested...

So I ordered the Showgard FDC #6 album from the followin link:

http://www.mdstamp.com/index.php?ma...4c83eedd2240

First, a note about the customer service at Potomac Supplies... it's not great. I ordered on September 12 after calling the day before and talking to a representative who assured me that the albums work work fine for first day coin covers. Having not received it by September 28, I sent an email to inquire and told it was on back order, and would ship the following week. This was the first indication I ever received it was on back order. I finally received October 4, while I was out of town.

As for the actual product, my hopes were initially good when I took the album out of its packaging, as I liked its looks:



The album did come with black inserts in each of the pages, but they were removable:





However, as I began inserting the coin covers, it became obvious it would not work well. First, the pockets were not wide enough (left to right) meaning the covers stuck out of their pockets about a half and inch or so. Obviously, a storage solution not covering and protecting the covers is less than ideal:


Second, once loaded in, the left edges of coin covers would bump up against each other, making it hard to turn the pages, even causing damage to one of my covers in the form of a bent corner, again on account of the album and its pages not being wide enough.



That got me to thinking that perhaps the #8 size album would work better, but I doubt that would be the case, as the coins make coin covers too thick so that the album does not close. Below is a picture demostrating this problem with 10 covers still left to insert:




I'm trying to return, but the seller has fallen silent to my emails requesting a return. I feel a return in warranted in this case given the misinformation given to me by the seller when I inquired directly. No reasonable person could think that these albums are a legitimate storage solution for coin covers.

So it's back to the drawing board. I think at this point that the only reasonable solution is a 3-ring binder with D-rings, maybe a 3-inch binder is enough to hold the 56 State/Territories covers and enough to hold to 40-50 Presidential covers that we'll have once the series completes. I've seen these and wonder if they'll work:

http://www.amazon.com/Lighthouse-VA...p/B001GBGVXM

-Brian

jbuck - I'm sure you could do that, but it seems it would be aesthetically undesirable, at least for me. Perhaps a better solution is to get the #8 size and remove half the pages, but even then it's getting a little too thick, plus it gets twice as expensive and you have all of these unused pages. I think these coin covers are the type of thing made for a 3-ring binder type solution.