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Dansco Rant

erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 28, 2024 6:52AM in U.S. Coin Forum

I know they have had issues recently with production. Hopefully, they are up and running now. However, why would they produce an album and leave off coins? Example, the new Women's quarter issue with proof has PDS business strikes. Additionally, there are proof and silver proof issued. The silver proof quarters have been left off. Why??? Is there an album that has the PDS business and the two proof versions in their composition? Littleton omits the "S" business strike.


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  • steve_richardsonsteve_richardson Posts: 161 ✭✭✭

    I got the Whitman album for business strikes, and added a couple blank quarter pages in the back for the proofs. It’s kinda awkward, but works well enough for me. I like having the clad and silver side by side. Really shows the difference in color between the two metals.

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They have to guess - ahead of time - what people will collect. The silver proofs are far far more expensive than the circulation strikes. Dansco is likely assuming people will collect the clad varieties. I would guess that - given no names - the Littleton album was issued ahead of the subjects even being identified and they had to guess what the mint would make.

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
  • NeophyteNumismatistNeophyteNumismatist Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BStrauss3 said:
    They have to guess - ahead of time - what people will collect. The silver proofs are far far more expensive than the circulation strikes.

    I mean... more expensive, sure. "Far far..."? Well, that may be a bit too "far". All of them are affordable in raw, uncirculated condition.

    I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.

  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like Dansco and have used their albums for years but it's as if they make the albums based on what someone's cousin thinks should be included. Their seated liberty albums are a disaster.

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 34,248 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They've always had multiple versions of series, some with proofs, some not.

  • WALLEWALLE Posts: 253 ✭✭✭✭

    I found the same problem when the Innovation dollars came out, so I started buying blank pages and binders and just made my own, that way I can custom it the way I want. Dansco still never came out with a S/W page for the ATB quarters. I'm refining the pages as I go along.









  • The_Dinosaur_ManThe_Dinosaur_Man Posts: 949 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The most recent modern series are terribly confusing and impossible to predict. S-Mint Uncirculated and W-Mint business issues are awesome but should have been retrofitted with earlier designs. Same with the reverse proof and enhanced uncirculated issues.

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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "S" mint business strikes are NIFC's however and are not generally found in circulation, even though you can find one occasionally. Making it confusing as to what the album should be made for. Novice collectors generally just want to find them in circulation. I do agree that Dansco should make them in various forms, as the do for proof and non-proof versions of albums.
    SO we could now have:
    1. Circulation stikes only
    2. cicrculation with proofs
    3. circulation with NIFC's
    4. circulation with proof and NIFC's
    AND****
    O, Heck, I DONT KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT! :#

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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nancy Dansco and the case of the mysterious missing trime.

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's also difficult when you need to guess what the mint will do at the beginning of the series being issued.

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")

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