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 Posted 09/18/2011  10:30 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add yankee1227 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I LOVE my Intercept shield albums. I have 3 of em.
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I have never actually seen the intercept shield albums but I have read about them. I didn't think the extra protection was necessary, but what do I know. I love both the Dansco and Whitman albums, but I prefer Dansco. I have never had an album with sleeves yet where the coins were too loose or too tight. I guess it is the luck of the draw.
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Just Carl will be chiming in with some "Whitman Album" comments soon enough.....

And that is due to having well over 100 of them. I do agree that Dansco today is a better product than most others and they are basically consistant in their quality. Unlike most other brands today. Intercept Shields, as noted here already, are on the inconsistant side. Like Littleton though I just don't think Green looks great for coin Albums. I've only had one Intercept Shield and one Littleton Album and gave them away.
Oddly enough so many like Dansco due to the so called Rich, Leathery look yet most of the same people hide those Albums away. Coin Albums are usually not a display for all item so overall looks usually means little.
Whitman USED to be really great with quality and would be consistant in that area. However, I too must admit Dansco is a far better quality now. I just don't like the fact I can't get the slides out without some major problems.
And a Brownish Album just takes away the looks on a any Copper Coin making them difficult to see easily. And Silver too looks better with a Blue background.
And of course I have been getting all my Albums free for so long now that I actually have many Dansco's as well as Whitman. It appears that more and more people are selling off collections in Whitman Albums which is why dealers at coin shows come up with so many of them.
Yes I'm a Whitman person, mostly.
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I'm not 100% happy with any anything I've seen for storing and displaying coins. Albums have the problems discussed here (too tight or too loose holes, potential scratches from the slides, bad color choices, inconsistent quality...). I'm OK with them for low-grade coins, or coins collected from circulation, but they bother me for expensive coins.

I think 2x2 holders are a waste of visual space for small coins like cents and dimes. If you do the math, a page of 2x2s holding dimes is 90% cardboard and less than 10% coin! 1.5x1.5 are better, but the pages are all vinyl which scares me to death. Anyhow, cardboard holders look cheap and aren't as nice as albums or air-tites.

What I'd like is some sort of attractive three-ring page that holds air-tites, which I can put in a nice looking three ring binder. The air-tite cards/pages are a weird size and allegedly don't hold the capsules that firmly. And boxes aren't as nice for browsing through my collection.

Those edge-view holders and pages are OK, and I'd use them for larger coins, but again, they're too bulky for smaller coins.

I've been grudgingly going with a combination of albums and a 3 ring binder with 2x2s, but I'd like better options.
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I think 2x2 holders are a waste of visual space for small coins like cents and dimes. If you do the math, a page of 2x2s holding dimes is 90% cardboard and less than 10% coin! 1

Where there is a will, there is a way. If it's space your worried about, use the dollar sized 2x2's and put several small coins in each one. Then you could have 3 Dimes per 2x2. Jammed into those 20 pocket plastic pages you end up with 60 coins per page. And if you don't care about the reverses, put 6 in a dollar sized 2x2 with the backs to each other.
I wonder if you wrote to the manufacturers of those 20 pocket page setups and asked for possibly a hundred pocket page, then you could put coins in each pocket without the 2x2.
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