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Posted 01/19/2015 11:52 pm
Interesting that upon Googling my question about whether Dansco albums lead to toning, I should find a new thread! 
I am considering moving to these, but it would be a huge and costly task. The issue is, I do like to visit my collection from time to time, and the regular pages fall apart with repeated handling. The work involved in a format switch isn't an issue, it is perhaps the most enjoyable (obsessive?) part for me, encapsulating and organizing everything.
I collect world silver, and put smaller ones in 1.5 x 1.5 flips. Larger than 37mm or so along with anything unusually thick or heavy goes into 2.5 x 2.5 flips. A page of twenty 20+ gram coins eventually wears out the page if I handle them too much. The 30 pocket pages for 1.5"ers hold up, while the 12 pocket pages for the big 2.5" mounts are pretty floppy. So the appeal of Dansco is the rigidity and expected durability of the pages and binders. I wouldn't, however, want to find years later that everything had started to tone.
Their pages for flips are an option, because merely being smaller means one page weighs less and has less size to flop around and break. Plus my coins are already in flips, at some point I have to stop buying supplies and re-doing what I've done (ahem, a few times so far).
The albums seem more space-saving than regular binders, which are not made for heavy stuff and bow if I'm not careful. I ended up putting most of the the collection in boxes, which makes for compact storage (very important given the confined space they're stored in), but isn't at all exciting.
With the concerns I've mentioned, I'd appreciate your thoughts on whether I should make a switch and if so, whether to go with their traditional pages, the vinyl pages for flips, or something else entirely. Thanks!
I am considering moving to these, but it would be a huge and costly task. The issue is, I do like to visit my collection from time to time, and the regular pages fall apart with repeated handling. The work involved in a format switch isn't an issue, it is perhaps the most enjoyable (obsessive?) part for me, encapsulating and organizing everything. I collect world silver, and put smaller ones in 1.5 x 1.5 flips. Larger than 37mm or so along with anything unusually thick or heavy goes into 2.5 x 2.5 flips. A page of twenty 20+ gram coins eventually wears out the page if I handle them too much. The 30 pocket pages for 1.5"ers hold up, while the 12 pocket pages for the big 2.5" mounts are pretty floppy. So the appeal of Dansco is the rigidity and expected durability of the pages and binders. I wouldn't, however, want to find years later that everything had started to tone.
Their pages for flips are an option, because merely being smaller means one page weighs less and has less size to flop around and break. Plus my coins are already in flips, at some point I have to stop buying supplies and re-doing what I've done (ahem, a few times so far).
The albums seem more space-saving than regular binders, which are not made for heavy stuff and bow if I'm not careful. I ended up putting most of the the collection in boxes, which makes for compact storage (very important given the confined space they're stored in), but isn't at all exciting.With the concerns I've mentioned, I'd appreciate your thoughts on whether I should make a switch and if so, whether to go with their traditional pages, the vinyl pages for flips, or something else entirely. Thanks!
Edited by glarus
01/19/2015 11:55 pm
01/19/2015 11:55 pm
