Dansco Albums Tone Coins?

Dansco albums still have their place in numismatics.

They were originally conceived with the idea of a collector completing a date / mintmark collection with coins taken from pocket change. Lots of people still do this.
For such collectors, it matters little if the coins tone a bit when stored in these albums over a period of decades.

It is reasonable to expect that Dansco have improved the quality of the materials used in their products over the years, as the collectiong fraternity become more interested in the preservation of their coins, and the storage approach used. It is also reasonable to expect that Dansco would not want to change the concept of their very popular products much, because that is what a lot of collectors have become familiar with.

I collect World and ancient coins of all types, and so Dansco products are inappropriate for my collecting approach. Mylar 2x2's and poypropylene album pages are more suited for me, and I think preserve the coins better.

My coins show no signs of toning, and they are in Danscos. Have been for several years now.

Dansco albums are fine, as are Whitman.

However, the album will not prevent toning if you keep them in an environment that can cause toning. Keeping the albums in Ziploc type bags, as suggested above, will help.

Ok, so what's the benefit of having the coins in a nice album, if you then stash them away in ziploc bags and hide them in storage? Might as well just use coin flips and storage boxes at that point.

It's the environment around the album that determines if the coins
will tone or not... not the album itself. They are not air tight.

Now this is a human idiot thing. We do stuff like this with almost anything we like. For example look how we all wash, wax, clean our cars then take them out in the rain and/or snow.
Look at how many people brag about Dansco Albums looking so rich and then hide them away.
So many people want an eating type Silver ware set and it just sits there, hidden away on a shelf.
So many of us have STUFF sitting on a shelf, never to see daylight, and yet there it is.
Same with so many coins. They are put in Albums, the Albums in a Zip Lock bag, then into a safe or safe deposit box.
Why not just bury them in the back yard?
We are all a bit nuts about something. Why not coins?

Just as a funny point, I don't see how washing and waxing and then going out in the weather is one of the human idiot things. People wash their car to remove mud/salt/debris so that is doesn't damage the paint/metal. People wax their car because they are going to be out in the weather so that they protect their cars finish from environmental damage. Yes it makes it look nice and shiny but it also protects the finish. Of course after washing and waxing you are going to get more debris on a car from driving it but that is why you maintain it regularly to stop it from building up. To say that is a human idiot thing is kind of silly.