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Valued Member
United States
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Early Dansco albums had the cardboard containing a sulfur content. This was corrected around 1990 or so. The older albums caused minor toning on the edges, more noticeably on larger silver coins. Current day Dansco albums are fine for most collectors. The albums will absorb moisture if not properly stored. This may cause spots on copper coins. I was a dealer for many years, and have seen many collections in Dansco albums. They might be the best albums made today.
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Moderator
 United States
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I definitely believe that where and how you store your Dansco albums will have more affect on the coins than the albums will. A Dansco is not going to stop high humidity or dirty air.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I also appreciate people following up on this. I hail from the PA shore of Lake Erie, so not having humid air was a very rare thing indeed. This is likely why I gad so much trouble in the past even when I thought things were stored airtight.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
650 Posts |
I live in Kansas, so humidly is not a problem.
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Valued Member
 United States
68 Posts |
For better or worse, and I hope for the safety of my coins, better, I have decided to go with
Air-Tites in a CAPS album. Protection and a great looking display for my coins seems like a
winner in my book. The ability to customize the CAPS album is another great selling point.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Recently I also went to wish.com bought 10 half dollar sized capsules for 1.90 including shipping, and am awaiting their delivery. I want to find a way to test them to see if they are safe plastic for coins or not. If so, it might make the Caps albums method a lot less expensive. I got the capsules. The half dollar fit only in the top half of the capsule  . Oh well, now I know. It is a shame these won't work though as these are very inexpensive per hundred. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Valued Member
United States
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Yep.. I decided to go the CAPS route as well. Definitely much more expensive and bulky then some of the other album systems, but it seems to be the best for long-term protection and flexibility. Only other option I am looking at are the Lighthouse Encap pages that whole capsules, but there doesn't seem to be any way to add any labeling or writing to those pages. I am getting a few to see if I can figure something out, but hard to beat the pre-made pages for the CAPS albums. And because they are standard 3-ring binder albums, I can add in a page or two at the end to hold some of my key-date coins in their "slabs". Will probably just put a little picture or some sort of placeholder in the slot where the coin should be and reference that it is in a slab. (Although, I plan to take most coins out of their Slabs to put them into the Air-tites unless they are something VERY special or valuable). Working on a Presidential dollar and a Roosevelt dimes CAPS album now to get myself 'Started', and then will work-up to more valuable albums. Will post some photos when finished. Michael |
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United States
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I look forward to seeing the implementation of these CAPS solutions.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Yes, please post photos when you have some. I have the CAPS ASE albums and am very happy with them for both protection and display. If you are interested there are some photos and further CAPS discussion here and here and here. |
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