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Coin Folders/Albums In Other Countries?

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I'm sure those of us who live in the United States are all quite familiar with Whitman coin folders as well as other folders and albums by other companies.

That got me to thinking--what is it like in other countries? Do they offer their coin collectors similar products to help them organize their collections?

If you live in another country, I think US citizens would love to see photos of what your collecting merchandise looks like... I know I would! Thanks.
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I know I would! Thanks.

I`m on board too.
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I have a few Whitman folders with Canadian coins in them. All my other non-US coins are in 2x2s, with a handful slabbed.
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I have seen Whitman folders also for Canadian, UK, Australian and New Zealand coins.
I haven't seen updated versions of non US Whitman folders in more than 30 years.
OK for less than MS coins, but IMO, not quite so suitable for MS+ coins.
Since I collect across the whole of numismatics, folders such as Whitman, do not suit my needs anyway.

I need to record when, and amount paid at the time of purchase on a flip, along with any required descriptive facts and catalog numbers, especially for coins struck before 1800.
If you need to re arrange your collection, all of the written information travels with the coin. No need for a separate data base.
I have a single and consistent display/storage system for the entire collection, which also includes hammered and ancients.
For these reasons, slabs are inappropriate for my needs as well.
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Lighthouse has these colourful albums for Canadian coins. The price has doubled from 6 years ago.
https://www.lighthousecanada.ca/kas...-albums.html

They now also offer U.S. coin versions
https://www.lighthousecanada.ca/kas...n-album.html
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The Whitman-Dansco-style cardboard push-in albums used to be all the rage here in Australia back in the boom years of the 1960s, when Australia adopted decimal currency, all the old coins were withdrawn, and everybody went crazy looking for "the $400 penny" (the 1920 penny is the flagship rarity of the Australian predecimal series).

As far as I am aware, such albums have not been made since at least the 1980s. There must have been a serious oversupply back then, because some dealers still sell them as-new. Here's a Dansco shilling album. Nobody to my knowledge has ever really tried to make decimal equivalents - there simply wasn't a big enough market to make dedicated products for it. Dansco allegedly used to make them at one point as they're still advertising their existence on their website, but I've never seen one. I think much of the demand, if it ever existed, was solely on US-based collectors, rather than local collectors.

The only year-and-date album organizers I've seen these days are people making pre-printed backing sheets for PVC plastic coin album pages. "VST" seems to be the brand everybody is selling, but the VST website doesn't have much in the way of pictures. Let's see if I can find a few for sale...

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/165249366298
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/324317478091

Personally, I'd rather not encourage people to use PVC albums (and yes, the VST website proudly boasts their pages are made from "Copysafe PVC", whatever that is suposed to mean), so yeah, no...
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The Whitman-Dansco-style cardboard push-in albums...
Just to clarify, in the USA these are referred to as folders. Albums allow both sides of the coin to be viewed.

https://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/pr...oin-folders/
https://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/pr...coin-albums/


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Dansco allegedly used to make them at one point as they're still advertising their existence on their website
To be clear, that is not the Dansco website. That is a dealer/reseller of Dansco products. The actual Dansco website is https://www.danscousa.com/
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This is an interesting topic, I look forward to seeing what else gets posted here

Really, nothing to add? If I find time, I'll have to research this myself.
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Leuchturm ("Lighthouse") and Lindner are big in Europe.
Hartberger is popular in The Netherlands with coin albums organized by Monarch and ruling period, see for example: https://en.hartberger.com/hartberge...s-sale-.html
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