Better But Not Best Coin Albums

I agree with collect4fun, I switched to 2x2 for my circulated collections and I have Dansco albums for my uncirculated coins.

I know nothing about albums and actually made a thread asking people what I should do. A lot of people suggested Whitman albums? Said better than Harris but not as upper crust and expensive as dansco.

Personally I would choose and album binder pages any day. Seems fancier, and not so reminiscent of collecting pokemon cards.

I like using albums also. For my main collection I use Dansco albums almost exclusively. That said, I also sell a bunch of stuff on ebay and one of the things I've found is that if you put "set" in the auction title you'll end up with a higher selling price.

I also have found that sets sold in old albums tend to end up with a little higher return. I love the old Blue Whitman albums, and folders. You can pick these up at coin dealers for next to nothing. Sometimes you can pick them up on ebay for cheap, but that's been harder to do recently.

At one of the stores I go to the price for old folders is around a buck and the price on albums is around $3. The same place also sells partial sets in albums and folders for next to nothing. For instance I just picked up 2 Jefferson nickel sets in folders. One had $1.75 face value in it, the other had $0.85 in it. So that's $2.60 face along with 2 folders. My price was $3... Tell me that wasn't a good deal...

Every time I go there I'm tempted to buy out his partial lincoln sets. He's got about 15 of the 1941+ sets in old whitman folders averaging about $2 per set...

I use a mixture of Danscos, the intercept shield Whitmans and regular folders and also have 2x2s in binders of my better dupes. Common, low grade coins go in rolls or in plastic containers or in those cloth bank bags. I don't particular like the folders because you can only see one side of the coin and brand new folders are a real pain to get coins into, especially if they are nicer. I like Danscos the best, but they sure are pricy. So far, though, I haven't had to buy a single brand new Dansco- buy them used, or buy a low grade collection in the Dansco and move my coins from the folder to the Dansco.

I am a lot like others when it comes to this and I use a combination of everything. My nicer coins are slowly going into dansco folders or airtites, secondary lower grade sets go into whitmans and others go into rolls or 2x2's. Some of my sets that I have been collecting for awhile are in 2x2's and these are the ones that I want to put into dansco albums because I seem to always misplaces a couple of coins and they get inserted into the back or rebought. It seems with the dansco albums I have had less mistakes and can easily replace a coin if a nicer one comes along.

springcypress brought up a great point about buying partial sets, a fair amount of dealers have these sitting around and you actually end up paying for the folder and getting the coins for free. Just this week I bought a harris penny set (1909-1940) that had 70 out of the 90 coins for $6, how can you pass on that even if most of it is vg8 or lower. The 1916s was in vf20 condition and paid for the set by itself.