Dansco Albums Cause Damage?

I don't know by damage what you are referencing. The only conceivable way I could see that you could damage your coins in a Dansco, is by scratching them when you slide the covers in place. In my opinion, Dansco offers excellent protection

I was thinking the covers you slide rub the coins causing damage. Do the coins fit snugly or do they rattle around?

The pages of the album are thicker than a coin so the plastic slide should not make contact if the coin is properly placed in the page. I have quite a few proofs in my 7070 type album and none of them have slide marks. Also, for the vast majority of coin series the album holes will fit snugly. For early coins that were not struck in collar(they have a slightly variable diameter) they tend to fit a little loose and are made for the largest diameter possible. That can be fixed by fashioning a little shim from a 2x2.

Is it true that Dansco albums damage your coins?

Yes it is true. And also with Whitman Albums. This happens when you put the Albums in a fire, place outside in the rain and snow, bury in a pile of compose or even store in your stoves oven. If you place one on top of a Bar-B-Que grill and light the grill, the coins may also be damaged.
I've been putting my coins in Whitman Albums for as long as there has been Whitman Albums. Many people I know use Dansco Albums. I've got over 100 Albums and as long as they are in a normal to decent invironment, nothing will harm the coins. It is not the Albums that may damage, tone, tarnish, corrode a coin. It is the outside elements such as reactive gasses that may get to the coins that do that. Of course if you constantly pull the plastic slides back and forth hundreds of even thousands of times, that too will effect the coins.

Coins may tone/tarnish is albums, but it isn't the albums that do it. It is simply the air around the coin that does it. Coins can corrode in albums, though, but only if you stick a sheet of PVC into the slot.

I have heard other people mention that they scratched their proof coins when sliding the plastic window back on, however I have never had that problem yet. As long as your careful and just slide the covers slow, you should be OK.

I have a lot of coins in Dansco albums and the only damage I have ever observed was to my wallet. It seems that an empty hole in a Dansco album will cause a strange phenomenon where my wallet to become dislodged from my pocket and cash will fall from it into the hand of a coin dealer. Has anyone else experienced this? Maybe I should call Robert Stack.

Jim

I am a new member and come across this wonderful site by accident looking for answers on my coins in the Dansco albums. I have scanned one of my Kennedy halves showing the haze that I mentioned but realized that I do not know how to attach it to this message. Can someone tell me how to do that?