Starting A Lincoln Album

Most people will tell you to get a Dansco but everyone has there personal opinion. I would just look though different types and see which you like the best and use it.

Get some 2x2's and a binder and some plastic pocket sheets-works better than a dansco and easier to do.

This is just one more opinion, but I will give you another vote for using a Dansco. If you want to avoid the proofs, get the Dansco 7100.

I perfer the Dansco albums. I have the Lincoln cents 1909 - date Dansco 8100 with proofs.
I started that album in the 1980's and have just one to go, 1922 no "D"

If I was starting over I would break up the sets. Do the Dansco wheat cents album,
then buy another album for mememorial cents. Also I would do proof coins seperate.
In the furture I will break up my Lincoln sets this way.

Look into Whitman also. I have many of them for Lincoln Cents and they look great for Copper colored coins.
Note that Dansco is a sort of Brownish and not much contrast for Copper coins. Whitman Albums are Blue.
However, you may want to really look into some of the other brands. United States Mint, Littletone, Intercept Shield, Harris and many more. Many think and may be correct that Dansco is one of the higher quality Albums but that too is sort of like if you own a Cadilac, then those are the best cars.

Not sure about many of the other Albums used for Lincoln Cents but it would be great if there was a real way to compare. For example, not sure if true, someone said there is no place for a 1955 Double Die in the Dansco Albums. Also, heard but not sure, no place for all 20 of the 2009's. Like I said it sure would be great if there was a way to compare what is required in all of the Albums.
For another example my Whitman Albums have slots for the 55, 72 ad 95 Double Dies. Also, a place for the 22 plain. all proofs from 75 up.
A discussion here not long ago about that silly 22 plain that should not be in the Albums.
If there was such a way to compare, possibly would be easier for jdavis18 and many others to decide what they want.
Another factor in choosing an Album too would be price. I wonder if there is a way to compare the average prices of Albums. Naturally that would be rather difficult since those prices can vary excessively due to where you buy them from.


Yes this is basically a Dansco Album forum. Us Whitman people are just not in good standing when it comes to Albums around here. On a serious note though. I do have several types and as to construction, I just have to agree that Dansco is much better. My only complaint about them is how difficult it is to get the slides out. Of course on the smarter side, might me a good idea to keep them in place as much as possible.

My 7100 has room for eight 2009 cents, which is correct for a circulation-strikes-only album. I don't know if the 8100 has slots for the quasi-proof satin finish coins. The only varieties it includes are large and small dates for 1960, 1970-S and 1982 zinc/copper/large/small but not the 1974 large and small dates for some reason. There is also (inexplicably) a slot for the 1922-plain error.

It makes sense to keep a separate binder for varieties, since there will be no agreement on which are worth collecting (there are hundreds or thousands of very minor doubles and RPMs that few people care about), and there are new ones being discovered on older dates all the time. Some of the "popular" varieties are also prohibitively rare or expensive for the vast majority of collectors.

You can also get blank cent pages which you can use to customize an album if you want to include specific varieties. I think somebody on the forum did that with the 48 different 2009 pennies or whatever.

Stepping up and casting my vote for the Intercept Shield album for Lincoln Cents w/proof only issue, 1909-2007. Not only is it very well made, it's deep green colour contrasts well against the brownish Lincolns.

It has a slot for the 1922-plain, large and small 60 and 60-D, large and small 70-S, 79-S type 1 and type 2, and eight slots for all the 82 issues (82 large and small date copper, 82 large and small date zinc, 82-D large date copper, 82-D large and small date zinc, and the 82-S). No slot for the 1955 double date, but the slot is near the bottom of the page and there are three empty spots for varieties nearby.

The album has 8 pages with 36 coins per page, and the album stops at 2007, but a second volume is set to be released soon, that will cover 2008 through 2016. The whole album fits nicely into a slip case. It's a classy, impressive album touted as "museum quality," and I have nothing but high praises for it!

Les