US Satin Finish 2005-2010 Coins In Dansco Albums - With Pix!

billymac11 and I both faced the same challenge, but from different directions, and we came up with two very different solutions. He promised to document his solution when he gets done, but I think I have enough info and photos to document my solution. Hopefully he will add his photos later. He has some good ideas!

THE PROBLEM: From 2005-2010 there were satin finish strikes placed into Mint Sets, but regular business strikes placed into rolls and bags from the mint, and used for coins placed into circulation, had a normal finish.

THE SOLUTION: Create a Dansco album for 2005-2010 coins.

Obviously Dansco isn't the only way to solve this problem, but billymac11 and I both used Dansco albums for other parts of our collections so that made the most sense.

billymac11 created an album for the Satin Finish coins. I collect Mint Sets, so I created an album for the NON-satin finish coins, but we faced similar challenges.

Prior to this endeavor, my collection looked like this (the top row is coins):



I mostly collect Mint and Proof Sets, plus a few slabbed items to fill in the gaps, in Eagle Albums. But I have a Lincoln Wheat, Jefferson nickel and Type Set in Dansco albums.

Adding the 2005-2010 non-Satin coins:



I elected to use 3 binders, and used 1/4" Chartpak vinyl lettering on the spines.



I put pennies, nickels and dimes into a 5/8" blank album with a 5/8" slip cover. The 3 pages are simply blank penny, nickel, and dime pages. I liked the pre-printed denomination at the top of each page and the ports all of the correct size, but labeling the ports was a bit of work and blocking out the unused ports was a bigger challenge than I had imagined!

I used a Casio LABEL-IT! label maker with clear tape to create the labels:



I ordered several samples from fabric suppliers, but that idea was a dismal failure. I settled on using scraps from Dansco pages after an initial success. For quarters, I wanted the 2005-2008 coins ordered like the Statehood pages but Dansco didn't offer blanks with that port configuration so I decided to bite the bullet and buy a Statehood Quarters Album. I only needed pages 4 and 5, so I had 3 pages to play with and quickly determined the best solution for blocking out unused ports:



I did end up buying two additional pages from Dansco just to tear them apart to block out the rest of the ports, so this isn't the cheapest solution, but it does work quite well.

The quarters album is a 3/4" blank album and 3/4" slip cover with pages 4 and 5 from the State Quarters album, Dansco 7144 DC & Territorial page (available separately) and blank DC and Territorial page (available separately).







The page for 2010 is actually a blank page inserted upside down:



I knew I wanted to "erase" the pre-printed header from this page (which was now at the bottom of the reverse), and it seemed logical that using a scalpel to remove the black ink was a good idea, but it roughed up the surface and the coverage of the tan ink was better than expected, so don't bother with trying to remove the pre-printed ink.

Here is the title with a few letters removed with a surgical knife:



I mixed tan and brown paints to create the exact color I wanted:





The picture above really doesn't do justice to how subtle the obliteration is.

The third album houses Kennedy halves, Sacagawea dollars, and Presidential dollars through Lincoln. I learned that NO Kennedy halves and very few Sacawagea dollars were released to circulation 2005-2010, but there were circulation strikes available from the Mint in rolls and coins that were different from the satin finish coins provided in Mint Sets.

A 3/4" binder and slip case with one blank Kennedy half page, one blank Sacagawea page and two blank Presidential dollars worked perfectly:









Any and all discussion and/or critique is welcome!

It seems the deeper I dig the more complicated things get. There is conflicting information on which Sac dollars were actually released to circulation and now I hear that the business strike of 2010 quarters has a satin finish. Is that true, and if so, is it different than the satin finish on the Mint Set quarters? There is much to learn!