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No biggie but I collect 1959 Proof Cameo Lincolns.......

Swung by the LCS to rifle thru their Mercs and picked up 11.

I believe this is a 1921. It's thrashed, but I paid under melt so it's not like I'm losing much if I'm wrong

I found four 1931-S and a single 1931-D. Two of the S mints went back.

There were 7 1945-S micro S dimes and I bought them all. None are in particularly noteworthy condition.

EDIT: I found almost every coin in the series today. Of course the 16-D and 21-D were no where to be seen, but there wasn't a 1926-S either, plus the two overdates if you include those

Picked this up at my LCS today:

One of his later coin offerings. I told him when I ordered it to take the flip insert to the post office on March 15 and have them date stamp it. He ended up doing that with all of them.

@safari_dude said:
How about a chrome background? 🤔

Might be too sparkly.

About This Thread

This thread will be dedicated to the handcrafted albums I have been making since the 2020-2021 period. It is my intent to share newly crafted albums here, along with articles, podcasts, or videos talking about the albums. Related projects may also be posted and public requests can be made in the comments.

If you have ordered or received one of my albums, you are welcome to share it in this thread as well.

Due to the fact that I am among the few individuals making such products, my production methods are private and are not up for discussion.

A Brief History of the Albums

This whole project began with a singular quest to have an album for Seated Liberty Dimes, a venture that I spent three years on prior to the eighteen-month endeavor to create my own first album:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1066141/i-made-my-own-album-for-seated-liberty-dimes

From there I branched out, making albums for Nickel Three Cents with Proofs, Half Dimes, Bust Dimes, and Indian Head Eagles. A couple of these were inspired by fellow collectors.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1069679/more-homemade-albums

A Proof Only Lincoln Cent album followed for my personal collection:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1079969/homemade-albums-for-proof-lincoln-cents-and-gold#latest

More albums would come along, as well as the first serious customer requests, including orders for Large Cents, Gold Sovereigns, a Queen Victoria type set, a Newfoundland collector's set, mint-specific sets for Carson City and West Point, Innovation Dollars with Reverse Proofs, and quite a few more.

During this time period, I learned the hard way that coin diameters listed in various reference materials, particularly for World coins, are often inaccurate. As a result, new requests for world coin albums can not be completed until actual measurements made by digital calipers are obtained.

At some point I began developing a website for the albums and my photography portfolio. The website is built to allow users to choose various components of the desired album from the dates and varieties printed inside to cover designs. The programming has been a headache at times but also is most necessary to provide the service of customization. I do not believe there could have been another method outside of building the website from scratch to achieve this goal.

https://www.donahuenumismatics.com/

In October 2023, I gave a talk at the EAC Regional Meeting at the Manchester, NH show and presented the albums. The talk was later published in one of the club's regular magazine issues.

In 2024, I developed the first pocket-sized albums for smaller sets. These have proven to be much more popular than I had anticipated. Early 2025 would bear witness to the first albums produced in languages other than English.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1114081/some-pocket-sized-albums-to-show-long-post-w-photos

In July 2025, an article about the custom albums was published in CoinWeek:
https://coinweek.com/collector-turns-passion-into-innovation-the-story-of-donahues-coin-albums/

In December 2025, I was a guest host on the American Coin & Currency podcast to talk about the albums:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s0LdPJkxiA

As of this initial post, I have created 100+ handcrafted albums.

A List of Available Albums

TEMPLATES - Fully Customizable with dates, mintmarks, varieties, etc.
-- United States
1) Half Cents
2) Large Cents
3) Indian Head Cents
4) Proof Lincoln Cents
5) Two Cent Pieces
6) Nickel Three Cents
7) Shield Nickels
8) Liberty Nickels
9) Buffalo Nickels
10) Jefferson Nickels

11) Silver Three Cents
12) Half Dimes
13) Draped Bust and Capped Bust Dimes
14) Seated Liberty Dimes
15) Barber Dimes
16) Mercury Dimes
17) Roosevelt Dimes
18) Seated Liberty Quarters
19) Barber Quarters
20) Standing Liberty Quarters
21) Washington Quarters
22) Capped Bust Half Dollars
23) Seated Liberty Half Dollars
24) Barber Half Dollars
25) Walking Liberty Half Dollars
26) Franklin Half Dollars
27) Kennedy Half Dollars
28) Seated Liberty Dollars
29) Trade Dollars
30) Sacagawea Dollars
31) Native American Dollars

32) Gold Dollars
33) Liberty Head Quarter Eagles
34) Indian Head Quarter Eagles
35) Three Dollar Gold
36) Liberty Head Half Eagles
37) Indian Head Half Eagles
38) Liberty Head Eagles
39) Indian Head Eagles
40) Liberty Head Double Eagles
41) Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles

-- Australia
42) Half Pennies
43) Pennies
44) 3 Pence
45) 6 Pence
46) Shillings
47) Florins
48) Half Sovereigns
49) Sovereigns

-- British West Africa
50) Shillings

-- Fiji
51) Pennies
52) 6 Pence

-- German States, Prussia
53) 2 Mark

-- Germany, Third Reich
54) 1 Pfennig
55) 2 Pfennig
56) 5 Mark

-- Great Britain
57) Farthings
58) Half Pennies
59) Pennies
60) Silver 3 Pence
61) 6 Pence
62) Shillings
63) Half Sovereigns
64) Sovereigns

-- Ireland
65) Farthings
66) Half Pennies
67) Pennies
68) 3 Pence
69) 6 Pence
70) Shillings
71) Florins
72) Half Crowns

-- Newfoundland
73) Cents
74) 5 Cents
75) 10 Cents
76) 20 Cents & 25 Cents
77) 50 Cents

-- New Zealand
78) Half Pennies
79) Pennies
80) 3 Pence
81) 6 Pence
82) Shillings
83) Florins
84) Half Crowns

-- Switzerland
85) 1 Rappen
86) 2 Rappen
87) Half Francs
88) Francs

TYPE SETS - Select pre-organized type sets
-- United States
89) Two Cents & Nickel Three Cents
90) Gold Type
91) Carson City Mint Type Set
92) West Point Mint Type Set

-- Canada
93) Atlantic Canada Type Set

-- Great Britain
94) Queen Victoria Type Set

-- Newfoundland
95) Newfoundland Collector's Set

POCKET ALBUMS - Select pre-organized type sets in a pocket-sized album
-- United States
95) Flying Eagle Cents
96) Two Cent Pieces
97) Twenty Cent Pieces
98) West Point Mint Quarters
99) Susan B. Anthony Dollars
100) Classic Head Quarter Eagles
101) Classic Head Half Eagles
102) Gold Commemoratives
103) Copper-Nickel Cents
104) Carson City Mint Type Set
105) Charlotte Mint Type Set
106) Dahlonega Mint Type Set
107) New Orleans Mint Type Set

-- Belgian Congo
108) Pachyderm Coins

-- Canada
109) Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, & New Brunswick

-- Fiji
110) Half Pennies

-- Germany, Weimar Republic
111) 4 Reichspfennig

-- Greenland
112) Greenland Type Set

-- Hawaii
113) Hawaii Type Set (available in both English and Hawaiian)

-- Newfoundland
114) Small Cents
115) 2 Dollars

-- Puerto Rico
116) Five Coin Type Set (available in both English and Spanish)

Hi. Per a suggestion by @creg, I'm starting another group participation thread. He wanted to create a "virtual collection" where we'd all work on the same set together- virtually. I suggested the ever-popular Dansco 7070 Type set.

Here's how it works. Each day will be devoted to a slot in the album (one particular type, in other words), and we'll do them in order. So on the first day we'll all post pictures of our Draped Bust half cents, on the second day we'll all post our Classic Head half cents, then we'll do Braided Hair half cents on the third day, and then on to the Draped Bust Large cent, and so on. Get the idea?

There are 83 types to complete the album.

Each day we can award unofficial bragging rights to the person who posts the nicest coin, and also to the person who posts the nastiest coin. Anything from junk to Gems is OK, as long as it is of the correct type and has a readable date.

Ready? Let's go!

@ambro51 said:
The 1922 peace dollar is awesome

Thanks. That one shot a beam of luster-light out from a dealer case at the 2025 FUN show, which caught my eye from ten feet away. Sure, it's a common date, but a real lusterbomb. It's also the only OGH I presently own.