Coin Prices Vs Album Prices

If you're willing to spend a little more than the typical Dansco album, you could purchase a blank Dansco album with millimeter pages, large enough to fit your coin locked in a Kointain holder. That would be the best of both worlds.

I have to say, I do really like the storage method in Gardmaster coin albums. Rather than a push-in followed by a slide-over like Dansco (which can scratch coins very easily), the albums have a strip of non-pvc pouches, which slide into each row on the page. Good visibility. No pushing to get the coin into the hole, good protection.

It depends what you are collecting. All my high end coins are in a mahogany cabinet - but then they aren't going to be affected by exposure to the air or toning issues or minute rubbing issues against the velvet but that's because they are all older coins where the pursuit of a "perfect coin" isn't an issue. For anything modern, say 1900 onwards, and super high end, some form of encapsulation might be best.

@ Tom Goodheart
I think you nailed it by saying there's an urge to complete these albums. I really am that way. I can pick up a used Dansco album at a coin show, and then it starts working on my psyche. Gotta fill it.

I sometimes think we all try to hard to preserve each coin. actually even entire Albums. So many purchase rolls of coins and put them in plastic tubes, seal the tops, place in an air tight box or container. Myself, I keep most of my coins in Wiitman Classic Albums and those inside Zip Lock Plastic bags. Of course to add a coin means one step further in doing so. Oddly enough so many of us attempt to fill an Album to completion and yet the end result is an item of much less value than each coin indiviually. By this I mean if you add up all the approximate values of the coins in an Album, you'ld find not a chance of selling it for that. But to try to sell each coin separately, you'ld come out way ahead.
As to your statement of why not a better way to store and display valuable coins? Why bother? Placing valuable ocins on display in possibly 90% of the country is like saying here is some money, please take it. Regardless of if an Album is worth $1 or $1,000 or even more, still can't put it on display in most places. With todays crime rate, even difficult to show a coin sollection to your family, friends or neighbors. So if you could find a fanastic Album, one that shows all your coins and in airtights, now what? Where would you show it? Who would you show it to?
This problem is true with guns, knives, stamps and most collections.
Maybe I'm more pessimistic than most but where I live, someone even stole my neighbors gate. It was a chain link fince type and the metal brings money. Placing coins on display is OK for a museum but just not practicle for most of us.

I agree with the 'need to complete' statement. Don't think I'm going to buy any other albums. Maybe just focus on selling off some other coins that I don't wish to keep. I'm not really doing it for an investment so if I'm not looking at the coins, really what is the point?

I think maybe having a minimal amount is probably best.

Yes, the State Quarters, the National park quarters... lots of choices for those. That is not a bad thing, since people who are collecting those coins are doing so for the fun of collecting, and not for investing. It's good for the hobby.