Posted 08/20/2023 9:51 pm
Dansco albums?- reasonably nice overall presentation and protection for a complete set of coins.
As one who tends to study individual coins, I prefer 2x2's in archival 20 pocket album pages, presentation is not so important for me, and OK for an incomplete set;
On the 2x2's I write
- condition
- price paid and when acquired
- provenance.
If the set was near completion, I would then consider a Dansco Album, but all of the previous acquisition history would then be lost, or have to be presented attached to the Dansco.
I also have to agree with machine20's comments,
unless the 'stars' of the Liberty collection were presented separately.
One way out of this problem is to not collect a date/mm set at all, in lower grades, only collect the 'stars' for reason of superior condition common dates, or scarcer dates, or whatever other reason.
When it comes to selling your coins decades later,
most collectors would be interested in acquiring individual coins from your collection, (not the whole set), so that they can build their own sets, and not to bother with coins they already have.
My attitude to this is to collect representative 'stars' only, because they tthe coins that are most in demand.
As one who tends to study individual coins, I prefer 2x2's in archival 20 pocket album pages, presentation is not so important for me, and OK for an incomplete set;
On the 2x2's I write
- condition
- price paid and when acquired
- provenance.
If the set was near completion, I would then consider a Dansco Album, but all of the previous acquisition history would then be lost, or have to be presented attached to the Dansco.
I also have to agree with machine20's comments,
unless the 'stars' of the Liberty collection were presented separately.
One way out of this problem is to not collect a date/mm set at all, in lower grades, only collect the 'stars' for reason of superior condition common dates, or scarcer dates, or whatever other reason.
When it comes to selling your coins decades later,
most collectors would be interested in acquiring individual coins from your collection, (not the whole set), so that they can build their own sets, and not to bother with coins they already have.
My attitude to this is to collect representative 'stars' only, because they tthe coins that are most in demand.
