Dansco Album Prices!!!
erwindoc
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When are the prices for these album going to come down? They are still through the roof for new ones and used albums are priced at what the new ones to be.
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I would suggest probably "never".
Everything costs twice as much as it did 4 years ago...adjust expectations accordingly.
I've bought several used albums(Dansco and others) on ebay in the last couple of months and got fairly good deals, yet one I wanted I lost today which went, like you say, for more than new price in the past. If you are not in a hurry, just watch ebay and you might find what you need at a reasonable price.
Jim
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Littleton albums ( the nice ones with the slide in plastic covers). Safe paper quality built. I won a twentieth century type set album very( $11 ) reasonable. My new dime albums are awesome. Replacement plastics available.
I know dansco but one thing the Littleton Roosie album includes that dansco doesn’t unless you pay twice the cost is the silver proofs.
I shall say this is only my opinion but for the cost of the one dansco Roosie album , I have both the complete Roosie albums and the type set album. As suggested watch eBay and good luck. If nothing else they will work until you get lucky with the dansco hunt.
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I have been listing used dansco albums on my website for years, and the last 2 years they have been flying off the site. There is a huge demand for used ones right now. I don't see the prices coming down anytime soon
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Never would be a pretty safe guess. I searched for a long time and finally over paid for a used Mexico type set album.
The 7070 has gone crazy, especially the gold page.
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If you like them pay for the prices as I do - I find it funny one may bitch about 30$ to get a coin , but bitch about 3 dollars for an album to put that coin in...............
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Where can I get a Dancso album for $3.00?
Please son don't ask stupid questions......
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
But if you've got a $3 coin and it costs $80 for the album...
Good night Jim.............
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Everything except the cost of my labor to my employer
Well, hidden in the bad news is the good news that people are actually collecting coins the old fashioned way.
@erwindoc The February Knoxville show should have a supply dealer. They
may have what you need. At the monthly in September I picked up a few albums
along with a couple of spare pages. There have been a couple threads within the
last year talking about the Dansco issue. Labor is the biggest issue I believe.
Once prices go up on an item, don't ever expect them to go down again. Makes me glad that I don't use albums.
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A few years ago (maybe six or seven), while visiting my daughter in NC, we went to Wilmington. I saw a coin shop, and we stopped so I could check it out. He had a good inventory, but what amazed me, was almost a third of the store was filled with stacks of albums - different types, but hundreds and hundreds of them. All without coins (there were some with coins, but they were in the display cases). I wonder if that shop is still there. Cheers, RickO
What's stupid about it??
You made a statement that people bitch about paying $3 for an album. If you mean $3 more, it's a lot more then $3.00. It's more like double or triple what they were just a few years ago. I am not saying that it is a bad thing. They cost more not only because they are in short supply, but also all the new collectors that came along during the pandemic. More demand, lower supply always means higher prices. $80 for a coin album almost seems criminal. Inflation also adds to cost.
Years ago, when I sold coins in an album to a dealer, they never factored in the cost of the album, they only paid me for the coins, and I guess it is the same way today. They sold the used albums for a big discount just to get rid of them.
Inflation.
You can always find used albums at a good price.
Maybe Ill just go back to 2x2 cardboard/mylar flips and plastic (PVC free) folders
Post a want list on the BST...you never know.
The fact there hasn't been another company that makes cool coin albums, besides Littleton, shocks me.
The New Ultimate Custom Dansco US Type Set Album.
The older Library of Coins is neat albums too.
They're the ones I use for my primary typeset as they include all the types- Dansco restricts some.
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Years ago, Dansco made custom albums- very pricey thou, but not as much as today's regular albums. I do not know if they will ever recover enough to make custom albums again. For Canadian coins, Lighthouse Vista makes very nice albums.
I have some posted on BST but no takers.
Why? They are expensive to make with a limited audience.
Name is Joe.
But it is a real observation. For someone collecting circulated Lincolns, he might have $30 with of coins and need to spend $80 for the album. Sure, he can buy a $5 Whitman folder, but that wasn't the question posed on the thread.
$3 gets you a used folder these days.
I've just gone back to chucking them into an old cigar box.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
Limited audience?? Um ok.
The New Ultimate Custom Dansco US Type Set Album.
This is your segue to taking orders for your awesome custom albums! Not joking, just trying to encourage you if that's something you'd think of doing.
Haha. You wouldn't believe the amount of messages I get on here and Instagram about making custom albums. The labor is just too long and exacting since I did it all by hand. I still haven't made my new gold page cause it takes so much time out of the day.
The New Ultimate Custom Dansco US Type Set Album.
@Bullet01 Well, I won't bother messaging you about a custom Indian head cent album with varieties, LOL.
If there was a potential for significant sales, somebody would attempt to provide a supply. The fact that there aren't suppliers entering the market would seem to indicate a belief that the demand isn't large enough to make the effort profitable.
How many albums of each type do you think they sell in a year? It's not like people buy a new one every year. You buy a 7070 and you keep it for 20 years. In a publishing sense, it is a very limited audience.
Consider, some people have slabbed collections, some people use 2x2's, some people use cardboard folders, so what percentage actually buy the Dansco type or Whitman deluxe? It's really not that many people.
I have a Dansco Large Cent album- I suspect that one is not that common- might be a retirement project
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Albums have to be made to very exacting specifications - off just 1mm in diameter and the coins going to flop around. I imagine that the dies for cutting the holes have to be replaced regularly.
I just repurposed an old loose leaf binder that had been used for Baseball cards. The pages have nine slots that will hold the clear double coin flips installed flat. This will do nicely for the Kennedy halves from circulation that I am doing. Easy to replace with the better coins I may find to replace the ones in the slot. Cheers. I did order a Whitman for the best ones.
Cheers.
Indeed, mind lapse. I should remember/relate as my dads name was JOE!
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Randy at Chief Coin & Supply (Oshkosh, WI) has always had a good selection of both new & used folders, albums, etc from a wide range of manufacturers. I got a bunch of new & used Whitman blue folders from him years ago when I branched out from just U.S. coins to some Darkside countries' pre-decimal varieties. Back then, I don't know if he even had a website, as I had to call/write for an extensive printed pricesheet. You might want to check out their website to see if they still have good availability & prices.
Where are these Dansco's being made today?....or are they being made?
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
There's a coin show this weekend in Annondale VA, not too far from DC. So what is a "good" price to pay for a used 7070 & &100? Around $40 with all pages? I have not had luck with Ebay.
They moved their operations to a small town in the state of Washington.
According to a previous post, a stones throw of the Canadian border.
They are back in production, but having supply chain issues and staffing
issues. As with everything, patience is the key word.
I think the Whitman equivalents are at least as good.
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As good as the quality is on Whitman albums, there is something to be said for the Dansco albums that just feel good in hand that other companies don't process.
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Dansco is still the 800 pound gorilla of bookshelf albums. We've carried them for 34 years. Whitman's bookshelf album dsn't come close in terms of build quality or variety of titles. The problem is Dansco's owners are independent as heck. If you call to ask for status updates you're essentially told "You'll get them when you get them". They will go years between rounds of production on certain albums: the 7070 Type and the Merc Dime albums come to mind, along with update pages for albums for current series... and then they decide to move their facilities from California to Washington state, right before Covid first hit. So- between the move, getting their production facility set up, Covid shutdowns, material shortages and finding local employees I'm amazed they're releasing much of anything right now. They've raised prices across the board for new product as well-when the new product finally comes out, that is. Problem is that collectors tend to be monogamous when it comes to how they display and store their items- so they're either going to wait (im)patiently for new product or go into the aftermarket and pay significant premiums for NOS or used albums.
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