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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I use the large brown uni safe albums for my Canadian coin collection. It is a nice folder and I like the way everything has room to show off each coin that is placed in it. My only argument against these albums is that they are set up for rare dates where only 3 or 4 coins are known to exist and then leave out major varieties that everyone could actually find. Not a real big deal. There are ways around this but just wish they would include more dates and stop adding years that are impossible to attain. Hate empty slots. My 5 cents. I hand this thread over to you fine folks.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3486 Posts |
NOT a fine "folk" but an honest collector adds:
I have my four, Barber Collections in Dansco Albums. My other coins are in 2X2 holders or in flips.
And a (very) few in slabs.
I admire any person who chooses to create his or her own "album," thus
bypassing the dictates of the makers of 'standard' albums.
But:
A chacon son gout - to each his own.
Now, I, too, pass this topic on ...
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New Member
Canada
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Did you take a look on the Lighthouse album, I have the penny one and I can tell you is it well made.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2805 Posts |
I use those blue Uni-Safe albums. They're probably made of solid PVC, but they don't list any varieties (I'm not very into varieties...) and they know when to call it a day (no dot cents!). Plus they're cheap. I love mine, but it has its limitations - I'd never put a 1948 silver dollar into a bendy plastic hole... (but I might do that to a 1947 ML one day)
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Valued Member
Canada
99 Posts |
Do the blue uni-safe folders have PVC for sure? I would be surprised seeing as all the coin stores sell them yet everyone knows PVC and coins is a big no no. I used to have stuff in the folders but not for long. Once I got more serious I took them all out of the folders and used 2x2s. I figure these are the safest way to store and preserve the coins.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I just use regular binders with insert pages so I can keep 2X2s, flips, slabs and capsules all in the same place.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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I was kind of wondering the same thing. The uni safe album I use was the album in this area that I found that I really liked. Now I'm questioning how safe they are for long term? I was thinking the same thing. Why is it so widely used if it was bad for the coins. Dang, now I have more to look up. BRB. LOL.
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05/12/2013 11:38 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Used to use the Brown Unisafe until last month. I decided to get albums for Dimes and Quarters which were not in albums. I ordered Gardmaster. Like them so much I bought new ones for my pennies and nickels and passed my Unisafes down to my son.
Gardmaster looks like Uni-Safe. Even the same brown colour. They are a little cheaper than Unisafe. But that is not the main advantage. The dates are on a separate page behind the plastic sheets. I understand the need to customise though. My one album has a spot for a coin worth $10,000 yet has no space for a common "no crown" design. I am customizing the sheets with a template in Word with a table with "invisible" rows and columns. It still needs minute fine tuning but I've almost got it.
I found the best prices through Collectors Supply House and Gatewest Coin. Collectors is more money but no mail charges over $40. Depends how much $ you order to which is better.
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05/12/2013 11:38 pm
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Valued Member
United States
467 Posts |
I used to keep my raw coins in UniSafe brown albums but I didn't like the way that large cents, nickels and twenty-five cents had to be forced into the slots and how difficult it was to remove a coin for whatever reason. So, I switched to Air Tite capsules, except for silver five cents. Air Tites are OK but they don't display well either, and they are bulky to store.
Then, I bought a Gardmaster silver five cent album because the printed dates were more in line with what exists in reality as collectible dates and varieties, plus the album is of considerably better quality that UniSafe. I also bought some extra pages to store varieties that aren't printed in the album and for keeping spares once I upgrade. I'm thinking of purchasing more Gardmaster albums for small cents and dimes.
Does anyone have experience with Gardmaster albums for nickel five cents and twenty five cents? Do you have to force the coins in and are they hard to remove?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I like the blue Whitman albums. Wish I could find more of them at a *reasonable* price. I only have one, for dimes.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I use Staples private label binders. My personal one is a one inch (it's been culled majorly), and I use others for sales.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Response to:
Does anyone have experience with Gardmaster albums for nickel five cents and twenty five cents? Do you have to force the coins in and are they hard to remove?
They are not too bad. I have those albums. I use coin tongs.
The large cents are tougher to deal with as I think they are slightly bigger than quarters. On the other hand, how often am I upgrading a large cent? It is not like the quarters where I might find one in change better than one that I already have.
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Valued Member
Canada
370 Posts |
I started out my collection with the brown uni-safe albums. But as noted above they are great if you plan on inserting the coins once and leaving it, if you are constantly updating your albums with new coins than it can be a pain. Plus I find that the plastic is scratched very easily by the edges on some coins, ie: 25 cent.
I only use them now for coin series that I collect just for fun, pennies, dimes, quarters, 50 cent (nickel), nickel dollars and toonies.
The series that I collect and keep updating, nickels and loon dollars, I have switched to 2x2 flips.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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They are both ok and do not [hopefully have any pvcshave had them for ten years no problems so far but the layout is not great. I had a really hard time finding the 1915 5o cent piece as it is not real. I am playing with excel to come up with a better format to add and edit to suite. Would like to see yours.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I am using Word using the table format. I have considered Excel and am quite comfortable with it too but will keep on with Word - I am kind of busy for another month and have not had a chance to fine tune it.
It is better to set your custom paper size in page setup and then cut your sheets to that size rather than print on 8.5x 11 and try to cut it down later. That much I do know.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Plus I find that the plastic is scratched very easily by the edges on some coins, ie: 25 cent. This was the biggest irritation for this album...which is why I started this thread. I'm still considering just changing the sleeve to the ones for the dollar but then I'm worried the quarters would seem so lost. |
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