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New Member
United States
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I am insterested in different viewpoints regarding the best all around coin album used by collectors of classic U.S. coins. I am looking for something that not only has a space for each year of the coin but also a space for each mint mark as well. Thanks to you all for your thoughts!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm not sure if you know this, but...this forum is the 'Dansco den.' Most of the collectors are here use Danscos and swear by them. Since I do not collect by series anymore, I have a few partly filled albums. Danscos do have the greatest variety of titles for the majority of US coins collected by date and mintmark. |
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New Member
 United States
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No didnt know that.....I have however read alot anout the Dansco 7070 on this site. I have looked at it and it appears quite nice However my questions remains as to whether or not each year with all the mint marks of that year can be displayed in a Dansco albumn. I have about three to four thousand different early US coins that I am in the process of inventorying. I thought it would be nice as a new collector to have as close to complete set put together using the highest quality coins I have then use the rest to Consign, sell, or trade for the others I might need to fill the remaining openings. I am completely new toCCF and seem to be constantly getting chewed out for posting something in the wrong location or the wrong thread. I swear I am not doing it intentionally! I'm Only looking for some friendly advise from other collectors. If I am in the wrong forum wont the moderators move me to the correct one? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The Dansco 7070 is the type album, which has one space for each type of coin 1800 onward. To have spots for all dates/mints there are other albums. For example, Dansco 7113 holds all circulation issue Jefferson nickels from all mints. Dansco 8113 includes all circulation issue Jeffersons plus proofs. Some of the albums include some spots for varieties, though not every variety. For example, the Buffalo nickel album has a spot for the 1918/7-D over-date and the 1937-D three-legged, and the Lincoln Cent albums include several small/large date varieties and the copper and zinc varieties for 1982. |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I still appreciate the idea of putting all of my little gems in 2x2's and mark all of the details relating to the coin.
You can shuffle the coin to anywhere in the album that suits you, and all of the details relating to the coin go with it.
If you are collecting a fixed set that is defined by Dansco, that's OK. If you want to stray outside the square, e.g. varieties and errors, that can become awkward.
I am an obtuse collector: I only go after the rare ones, the ones in top condition, the errors and the varieties, forget the common ones.
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'The rare coins become rarer, the common ones stay common' (remark made by a coin dealer)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Staying on the Dansco bandwagon of sorts, you can also purchase blank albums with pages of a certain diameter hole and label as you go. I have done that with the proof Lincoln Cents to cover the early proofs and a 38mm to house the more recent dollar Commemoratives. If you ever were to need additional pages, you could also order just the single page. That's my  . Paleoguy |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yeah this is the Dansco People Place. Of course there are those Whitman people, like me here, but usually ignored since considered left over from the old days. It is getting so bad here that many members don't even say Album, they just say in my Dansco.  There are many organizations that make coin Albums and Folders. Whitman USED to be the biggest name for all of those. However, due to changes in company ownership, their quality went down, down, down. I used to be a completely Whitman person but starting to change to Dansco also. The latest Whitman Albums I get are really poorly made compared to Dansco. There are others like Littleton, Intercept Shield, etc. but most have problems of one type of other. Oddly enough many people just like the rich leathery look of a Dansco cover which has nothing to do with coins. On a book shelf a Blue Whitman, Green Littleton, etc just does not look professional either. Danso Albums are growing in type and variety more and more, unfortunately for us Whitman People, so even us will and should start to change. I presently have well over 100 Albums and almost all Whitman but then too, from back when they were made well. Times change you know. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I swear by Dansco albums. I have a Dansco album for almost every American coin ever minted by the United States mint. I have a type set album that covers a sample of the oldest American minted coins that I can not afford to collect the entire series of. They are quality made. They safely store the coins in a library type setting, that allows them to be stored, and shown to others in an easy,professional type display. They are not cheap. They are in fact expensive.I currently maintain 34 Dansco albums, each for a different variety of American coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
609 Posts |
I only have 1 Dansco album and 1 Dansco folder. I love em, they look great and dont tone your coins like some of the other albums. Other folders I have are whitman and littleton. I hate the green color on littletons, plus the coins just fall out of their slots. Not reccomended. The whitmans are really good, I think. I would reccomend them to someone who didnt want to spend more for a dansco. Oh, I've got a US Mint album as well. They are OK, but dansco is best. Overall, get a dansco  |
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Valued Member
United States
309 Posts |
Unfortunate for Whitman albums, personally I think silver coins look much better against the blue whitman pages, but quality is lacking.
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New Member
United States
43 Posts |
Well it seems as though Dansco is the hands down favorite. I think I'll take a look at them and decide if they might work best for my collection if not I may just go the route mentioned by sel 691 using the 2x2's and putting them in the plastic holders and perhaps buying a nice leather office binder to store them in. Anyway thanks everyone very much for all your opinions this has been a really helpful thread for me!
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Moderator
 United States
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Count me among the Dansco fan base. I have been using them for over 26 years now. Dansco offers a lot of options for customization, so anything you want to collect should be able to find a home. They even have an option to hold 2x2s in a clear plastic twelve pocket page.
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Valued Member
United States
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Dansco for me also. However I cleaned out my 7070 and put the coins back into airtites. I normally buy books and piece out the coins I dont want. When I hit 250 posts I will be posting a few dansco albums for trade/sale.
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New Member
United States
43 Posts |
Well I think Jbuck Sold me since you can get the 2x2 clear plastics for the Dansco as well. I think that give me the flexibility of the best of both worlds. I really appreciate the time you each spent giving me your words of wisdom on this topic. So now I guess all that's left to do is start checking out the Dansco website for available options. Again A BIG THANKS to you all!!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2200 Posts |
I just bought the Dansco 7070 because I love type coins and wanted a suitably formal presentation for them. But I am a Whitman man at heart, and still use them for the common circulating coins. I like how my dad used Whitman albums when he was a kid in the 1930s; I see no need to change that tradition!
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Posted 07/11/2011 12:57 am
