Dansco 7070's Are For Novices

Seems a bit like a unique combination of a 7070 idea and an 8100 album. Not bad! I like the idea of getting to the "meat and potatoes" of the collection, and I'd think this would be fun to complete.

Custom transparency -- brilliant! In many ways it's a better solution than the Presto-Magix approach I described on some other threads.

That does make the set fun to track down and there is plenty of variety in it.

Trent, very nice indeed! I'm big on the transparency thing for custom made albums. I did them for all the 2005-10 satin coinage and some custom type albums to complement my nowhere-near-complete 7070.

Yours looks very neat and crisp. A great presentation!

Wow, trent, very cool idea and very professional-looking with the transparencies. Did you print them yourself?

Thanks for the feedback guys. For the transparancies, I got the idea from a different thread on CCF. Those things are expensive! I had no idea. A pack of like 25 costs something like $40-50 USD. I ended up going with a 6-pack on Amazon and being very careful.

I also used transparencies to to label a blank page for SBA proofs and to complete my Dansco P&D Nickel album which ended its dates in 2005. I used the transparancies to continuing the labeling the blank holes all the way through 2015.

To layout the transparancies it takes a good amount of time. It took me at least an hour per coin denomination. I used MS Word to layout a table of coin holes and the spacing between them, then made the tables grid lines invisible when printing. The trickier parts were accurately accounting for printer margins and forcing Word to keep my column widths/heights exactly where I wanted them (It likes to auto adjust things). And lots of test prints on paper.

Yup, one could go many different ways with an album like this and I guess if I really wanted to I could stretch it out into three pages. But I wanted to make it something I could accomplish within a year or so and kept it toward coins I wanted to collect. I guess the overall goal was a quick snapshot of the history of the ~19 mm small cent. As previously mentioned, the inspiration came from someone else on CCF who did one of these for the various designs, compositions, finishes, and mint marks between 2008 and 2010. I just extended it back further trying to hit the first and last year of any significant change in design, and where possible get all P/D/S/Proof versions of it.

Obtaining even what I have so far was pretty tedious for me. For my main collection I've been trying to assemble PDS sets from mint sets, but then getting additional copies of MS cents which I already have has been getting old quick. I'm now looking forward to working on the IHC's and Flying Eagles. Unfortunately they probably won't be in MS like the most of the wheats, LMCs, and Shields.

As for doing this for other denominations, NO, I am not planning that. I quickly learned from doing this that trying to keep two versions of collections going and documented is tricky. So once I'm done with this I'm going back to working on my BU 'normal' collections which I haven't had time to work on.

@billymac11 If you posted what you did on CCF a couple years back, perhaps you're collection was the one which planted the seed in my mind. I remember someone doing something with satins. Maybe it was yours with the white label maker labels?

Edit: I guess I can't post zip files. I guess I'll try to contact people by email on here if they express interest in the word docs.

@matt, your email is blocked on ccf. Contact me.

I like this a lot. Well done.