Plugs For Unneeded Holes In Dansco Albums

I actually do like the pleather idea to simply obliterate the hole as if it had never been there and may incorporate that into my projects. But let's not make any references to scrapbooking - my wife might make fun of me....

And the label-it looks absolutely fine. It keeps it looking "professional". After all, these albums cost a boatload of money (in my world at least!) and they need to look "just right" after the investments in the actual coins.

Carl,

Cutting a plug from a scrap page could easily be done with an arch punch that is used to cut leather, gasket material, etc. But if you cut the plug out, you will have a piece of pleather that goes over the top window, then a cardboard slug that goes between the windows, then another piece of pleather that goes outside the bottom window. If pleather is covering the windows, why bother putting the slug in? Then I thought, why even cut the pleather to fit inside the hole? Just make it big enough to slide behind the desired holes, in front of the window, and there is no need for any adhesive. If I need to add more ports later, all I have to do is trim the pleather inserts to expose more ports.

Why would I need to add more ports? If they redesign the dime and put a 90% silver version in the Mint Set one year but release a clad coin into circulation, similar to what they did with the 95% copper Lincoln, I can add that circulation coin that is different from the one in the Mint Set.

I agree that it's annoying when albums with an end point (like Lincoln Wheats) have additional ports, but an open-ended series, like Roosevelt dimes, should have additional ports for future issues. The project I'm working on is using blank pages to create what I want, so I can't expect the number of ports to be accurate.

I looked at Whitman albums and I like the ability to buy the gold lettering to make your own pages. I just don't like the break point for pennies. I prefer to change albums at the end of Wheats. The Whitman Nickels album breaks at 2003, which makes as much sense as 2004 or 2005, but it has blank holes at the end just like Dansco. If I attempted this project with Whitman albums I would face exactly the same problem, except I would be searching for blue material instead of beige, and I would use the Whitman gold lettering instead of a label maker.

Personally, I would get a coin of the same series and lathe down the faces to plug the hole with. Shiny and professional if done properly - sort of like making your own coin blank.

Could be hard with silver as you'd have to wreck a silver coin - perhaps a clad issue lathed down and plated with zinc could work (this is really easy to achieve at home).

Excellent! I am hoping for the best.

Carl,
What you are describing is exactly the thought process I went through at first! I finally decided that finding dowel rods of the correct diameter would be the best answer since I have a mitre saw with a laser guide so I can cut thicknesses the size of coins. Then all I had to do was find a paint that closely matched the color of the album page and that would be the answer.
But then I started thinking about "blanking out" the ports from the OUTSIDE of the windows. There is only a thin layer of fabric outside the windows, so cutting circles should be easy. But then I thought, why cut circles at all?!? Why not cut a piece of matching fabric larger than the port and slide it behind the opening but in front of the window.
I hope to get the material samples soon to test my theory!

Billymac,
That is exactly the plan!
I received the albums yesterday.
I have samples of pleather ordered to find the best match.
I have already done a preliminary test with a thin piece of cardboard and it looks promising.

For my Large Cent and IHC Danscos, I bought a white cardboard box from OfficeDepot, and just circled a coin, and cut it out. I then wrote the information on it like "1877 IHC PCGS VG08" on the outside, and plugged it under the slide.