Question About Danscos

Does your Mercury album have blank holes at the end? My Franklin half and Washington quarter albums do. I used the extra Franklin slots for some proofs and the quarter album has Type B revs, a silver MS bicentennial, and a couple errors.

I totally agree.
Why clutter up your album pages with oddball coins?
Over-dates, errors, die problems... none belong in the
album's primary pages IMO. I would go so far as to say
that multiple varieties don't belong either.

The 'Micro S' is something that is right on the fence
in my mind. There aren't many like that though. Even
the 22 plain doesn't belong in an album IMO. Why put
a substandard strike variety in an album? I don't see it.

Good post.

Yes there are several blank slots at the end. I put the micro s in one of them and hand lettered it. I love the idea of labels that you apply. Why didn't they think of that?

I've thought the same thing.

I recently bought the most recent page for Lincoln cents, starting at 2008, and realized that there are only 3 spaces for 2009.

With the changes and multiple designs for 2009 I want to show all of the possible reverse designs, so I probably want 12 holes. I think I'm going to return the page and just use a undated page and use a label machine to mark the dates.

does anybody know if it's possible to remove the lettering that Dansco applies to the pages?

if so what would you use?

I'm thinking Goof Off might work, anybody tried it?

Obviously you haven't looked at the latest Red Book. More and more small mint marks are being found in the Mercury dime series. I presently have over 3,000 Mercury dimes and large and small mint marks are common.
As to the problem of slots for odd ball coins. Whitman does that too. They at times are worse. The older Merc albums had no place for the 42/41. Then the next ones came out with the 42/41 and then the 42D/41 and naturally the 45microS. I've got a Whitman Album for Liberty nickels with a slot for the 1913 and just can't find one anywhere. All my Whitman Albums are full of stupid, dumb, idiotic slots for coins that shouldn't be there.
The problem is that although most people complain, no one tells the manufacturer. I've contacted the publisher of Whitman Albums and was basically told this is what collectors want. No one complains about those hard to find slots. Actually many do ask for more of those types.
The only solution I see is to have many, many poeple complain to the manufacturers of the albums. Or make your own. I've done that with Whitman. Order a blank cover, blank pages, sheets of the Gold presson letters and numbers and make my own albums.
I really like my 1916 to present Dime Album.

Sometimes I get the urge to buy blank Danscos and collect
the various denominations not by series, but by 'one a year'.
no mint marks, no separation of design. Start as early as
possible, and go from there to present. One a year.

I have a Merc dime folder, probably from the 1950s, that only
has a hole for each year Merc. It's an attractive idea sometimes.