Dansco Rant
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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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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They've always had multiple versions of series, some with proofs, some not.
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 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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Wow, it flew over my head that the Mint created business strikes for the American Women Quarters series. I just added my Silver Proof Quarters into the "-S Proof" slots thinking that was where it belonged.
If I had to guess, I would guess my thinking was Dansco's intention as well. Business Strikes are an obscure series. You only need to look up how many people make forum posts asking "Is this S mintmark quarter a proof?". Since Dansco albums are geared towards the general public, they will probably never put in S business strike ports.
I thought the Mint only made S business strike quarters for the ATB series. Dansco has not created an album that has ports for them, so I had to create my own album.
"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!
Nancy Dansco and the case of the mysterious missing trime.
It's also difficult when you need to guess what the mint will do at the beginning of the series being issued.
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