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Hello, Im working on a custom dansco with all three nickel sets in one album. Iv been thinking about this for a while. With winter setting in I ordered two blank dansco 7117's(one is for canadian nickels), and some transfer paper, to print my own dates, and try to add to the binding to label the album as well. These sets will just be circulated grade coins, so dont expect any "moe" ms 67 low mintage shields  . Any low dollar varieties I should add for any of the three series? So far I have decided to not include a spot for the 3 legged buffalo, and have decided to add a spot for a racketeer nickel in the liberty series. With the liberty series that should give me only 2 empty spots for that page. Im open to suggestions on this project, I am still in the development stage, at this point the album is ordered and the transfer sheets, I'm going to start working on the lists of coins and mints to include soon. Edited by halfhunter
01/15/2013 7:52 pm
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Sounds like a good idea. I've combined a few sets just to keep the Danscos to a minimum. I have my Barber,Mercury and Roosevelts all in the same book. Also Peace and Morgan date set in the same book, plus a few more. I do need to come up with a good labeler though. My write a date on a sticker idea looks like crap.
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I like full pages... on the V-nickel page, be sure you have the '83 cents and no-cents varieties, then there is a high leaf and low leaf variety of one year (can't remember!!) I think that will allow you to fill that page (if you put in a racketeer nickle -- which is a great idea).
There are some buffalo varieties that are affordable - 1938 D/D, as I recall.
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I've been doing that for a long time only with Whitman Classic Albums. I order blank covers and blank pages. Then the press on Gold letters/numbers. I've made Flying Eagle/Indian/Lincoln Cent Albums. Liberty Head/Buffalo/Jefferson Nickel Albums. Liberty Head/Mercury Dime/Roosevelt Dime Albums. Similar with Quarters and Halves. None with Dollar coins. I didn't start with Sitting Liberty Dimes or Quarters due to the extreame scarcity of those. They are fairly easy to make if you leave out all the error types and/or proofs. Just normal issued coins. My Cent one is getting rather big so I went to a Place called Office Max and found those little things that fit into the slots to make the Album bigger. Same ones that come with most Albums but a lot longer. I've been thinking of making one really massive Cent Album with all proofs where possible. I wonder how big that would be.
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"moe" ms 67 low mintage shields You kill me!!  Edited by Moe145
01/15/2013 10:23 pm
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Hey Blues your labeling sounds similar to my canadian penny "pencil labeling" system. Hey Carl, post a picture if you can. Id be real interested in seeing your album cover with the letters on it. I bet that nickel album is heavy. I know my jefferson is my 3rd heaviest behind kennedy with proofs and lincoln cents. As far as empty spots go, the shield page is gonna be pretty empty. You have 35 spots per page, so I'm doing one page for shield,one liberty, two buffalo Here is what I have so far Shields 17 out of 35 spots 1866 1867 Rays 1867 No Rays 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 I have removed the 1877 and 1878 proof only. I'm wondering If I can make it look clean, and cover the bottem holes with something, then do a transfer of mintage numbers on it to make the page look clean, then I could add a reverse for the last spot. There are 6 rows of holes, the first 5 rows are 6 spots, and the bottem row is 5 spots. ------------------------------- Liberty 34 spots out of 35 1883 racketeer 1883 no cents 1883 with cents 1884-1912, 1912 D, 1912 S I could do a reverse spot for the last hole in this one at the bottem of the page. ----------------------------------- Buffalo nickels 65 out of 70 spots 1913 1 and 2 1913 d 1 and 2 1913 s 1 and 2 1914-1917 ,1914-1917 d and s 1918, 1918d, 1918/7 d, 1918 s 1920, 19120 d and s 1921,1921 s 1923 1923 s 1924-1929, 1924-1929 d,1924 s-1929 s 1930, 1930 s 1931 s 1934,1934 d 1935-1937,1935-1937 d,1935-1937 s 1938 d Could do a reverse on one spot, leaving me with 4 empties for now. Still open to ideas, I'm really wondering if I can do something to make that bottem half of the shields page to make it look clean. Edited by halfhunter
01/16/2013 08:19 am
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I love the idea of combining nickels series, especially y if I can see both front and back of coin!
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Half hunter any update to your sets? Would love tomsee pics if you have any.
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I made an album like this too, combined the three series into a 7117 and everything. I also included a racketeer nickel, and in the last slots on each section, I put a reverse space. Glad to see I'm not the only one with time on my hands to come up with this stuff.
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in the last slots on each section, I put a reverse space Remember that there's no law about how you display coins in your album. Decide what you like/works for you. For example, one of my buffalo albums has all the Philly mints with the obverse facing forward, all the branch mints with the reverse facing forward. |
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I have thought about the same thing, almost.
I would create a 5 page album.
Buy a "Nickels" binder, then buy the pages from each album.
The Sheild album has 2 pages, the Liberty album has only 1 page, the other is blank, so no needed, and the Buffs have 2 pages. Total 5 pages, already printed, in one album.
It's a little more expensive this way, but would work perfectly.
The only part I question myself on is the 2 Sheild pages, sometimes I think it would be better to use 1 blank page in lieu of the 2 Sheild pages... The Shields only use 2 pages because there are fewer holes by design, AND the Shield pages have a lot of "variety" coins, like overdates and such, which I don't generally care to collect. So, this could be narrowed down further to just 4 pages if I was to accept the 1st page not being pre-printed.
If you want the 1st page not to have so many holes, use a blank millimeter page. Find the mm that fits the nickels, and buy 1 page. The mm pages have far fewer holes per page.
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07/18/2013 08:24 am
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Just looked it up out of curiosity, and the 21mm page has 16 holes. Sounds like it's short one hole for the Shields... I also looked up the Shield pages, and it's only 1 page, not 2. The second page is in the album 6110, but it is blank, just like the 2nd page in the Vs. So it's just a 4 page album using preprinted pages. They are about 7 bux each, so that is 28 bux, plus the blank nickel album. 6110-1 is the part number...  Edited by ratio411
07/18/2013 08:46 am
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Sorry I missed this post. I did complete the album. Its not the best. I will get some pictures up later on this evening.
For the shield page I skipped the proofs, probaly should of skipped the other 3 ears after those with the less then 100,000 mintage.
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I LOVE that idea! (i may have to use that)  |
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    Sorry not the best puctures. But the blank dansco nickel album works real well for this project on these 3 sets. Nickels are not really my favorite coin, but you can do alot of things with this project. I skipped all the proof year only shields, all though there are plenty of slots for them if you wanted to include those. I'm missing 1871,1875,1876, 1879-1881. I should have not included the 1879-1881, being this is a low end set.I will add the other 3, one of them is tough, but not to bad. Liberty nickels, I added the rackateer,(top left), and am missing the big 3, 1885,1886, 1912 s.I will add those wont be to bad in ag. Buffalo's I'm missing 1913 S 2, 1915 s, and 1921 s. Not a bad project. But a nice little set. I am a few coins short of completing the nickel run from shields to current, skipping the heavy hitting proof shields and buffalo varietys. |
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