Your opinions on Dansco Albums

Striker

I'm just looking for your opinions on Dansco albums. I've never used one yet and am thinking of putting my circulated sets into them. Believe it or not but I've been collecting for nearly 15 years and haven't ever used one.

Tootawl

I like Intercept Shield albums alot better. Not only do I think they provide more protection for your coins but they also stack easier on shelves or in a safe.

Baley

I am very happy with my Dansco albums. I have the #7070 for US type 1800- present, 5 pages plus the special order for the gold, and it works beautifully even for uncirculated coins, if you're careful.

Also the Ike dollars # 8173, with proofs, I'll attach a picture:



and here are a few single shots:





I recommend the Dansco albums but not for the ultra high grade coins that need a slab for protection!

Striker

I was reading in the description of them that they have acetate coverings on both sides to help protect the coins. Is the acetate stuff just one big sheet or are they fitted to the coins? Sorry to be asking this I really should know this already.
Are the Intercept albums pretty much the same concept?

lordmarcovan

I like Danscos, and use them for my Irish coins. (There are three different albums for the 1928-69 Irish pre-decimal coins, by denomination.) I am an old veteran of the Dansco #7070 type set album, having completed it once and almost a second time, on past occassions. (I might try it again sometime).

However, I would avoid using them for ultra high-grade coins, proofs, and so on. Intercept albums probably do provide better protection, but I've not had any problems with Dansco on circulated coins. For a long time, the #7070 was the only combined 19th and 20th century album one could find on the market.

One complaint I have is that the information they print beneath the ports is sometimes outdated or inaccurate. For example, the old #7070 I had listed many of the Classic Head and Capped Bust coins as "Turban Head", which might have been an old-fashioned nickname for them. And in the Irish coins, the two rarest have inaccurate mintages printed below the ports: the 1943 florin, of which about 35 are known, says "25 known", and the 1943 halfcrown (I have one!) has a surviving total of only about 500 coins, according to Krause and most other sources, yet the Dansco says "1,000 known".

Depending on what your sets are, you might do just as well with the Intercept or Whitman Classic albums, but there is certainly nothing wrong with Dansco for circulated material. I used them because they had the titles I wanted (the type album and the Irish coins). It's hard to find albums for non-US coins. What baffles me is that Dansco puts out albums for the coins of Fiji (!?!), but not for British coins, which are probably #3 behind US and Canadian coins!


PS- Baley: those are some pretty Ikes (sssh! don't tell anyone I said that- I'm known for scoffing at "Bald Guy Bucks", LOL). Did they pick up that peripheral toning from the albums? I've never been a big fan of Ike dollars, and usually prefer proofs to business strikes if I must mess with 'em, but I must admit that those you have there are quite attractive.

Baley

hi lordmarcovan, yes, the Ikes toned from long term storage, but only the clad ones! the 40%ers are still white as the day they were minted, outside of a little haze.

Also, as for the type set, I have a 2 part whitman type set album that not only includes the 20th and 19th century US, but the 18th century types as well! of course, those holes are still empty, and likely to stay that way, since any purchases of those types will most likely stay slabbed.

Striker, there's an acetate slide for the front and back, that stretches across a row of coins, and if they're little coins, one big piece will cover 2 rows. you have to be careful sliding them, plus sometimes the hole is a little big for the coin, so I insert a thin piece of inert plastic to help keep the coin from rotating, and very very occasionally the hole is too small (in the case of my bust half) so I had to press really hard to get it in, which would have bothered me if it was BU, but it was only VF/EF so thats ok!

Baley

here's how the dansco type set album looks when the coins are in it, IMO much nicer than flips, these are the quarters:

Baley

and here are some half dollars:





and here are some dollars:



It is quite a sense of accomplishment when you finish the dansco 7070!

but then you have to keep upgrading !

nwcs

I bought a whitman folder styled just like a dansco. I like it. I thought about the intercept shield one for this, but realized that I won't have any coins in it that individually are worth more than $5. It's a full 1909-1995 lincoln set. All the coins from 1909-1935 are circulated and all the rest are uncirculated. I don't have it done, yet, but I like the results so far. Obviously, I won't be getting coins like 1909S VDB and 1914D any time soon in any condition.

lordmarcovan

Dang, those pics made me nostalgic. I might have to see if I can find a Dansco #7070 while I'm at the show in Charlotte! Both times previously, when I sold my sets, I sold the album with the coins. This time, if I get another one, I'll keep the album, even if I upgrade and/or sell the coins. I'm 90-95% dealer now, and not really as pure a "collector", but if I play with the type set, I'll always have a reserve in case I sell out of a particular type of coin in my cases at the mall. I like to keep as diverse an inventory as possible, as close to "one of everything" as I can get, but I'm starting out small, and some type coins sell too fast for me to keep them in stock- Bust coins in particular have been hot in my mall venture.

Striker

Thanks everyone for you info on these.

Liberty

Tangental to the Dansco discussion....does intercept shield make a "type set" album? I picked up the IS album for my SQs and really like it yet I haven't been able to find a type set version.

I've yet to figure out what to do about storing displaying my growing type set collection. I've got a mixture of slabbed and raw coins. There's just no good way to see them all at once like you can with raw in an album but...I really don't want to put an expensive coin in one unprotected. *sigh* Dilemmas.

TommyB

I have been looking for an Intercept Shield Type Set album to no avail. I have e-mailed them and it is possible we might see it in the future. I prefer Intercept Shield albums because they have the nice protective outer casing, stack better like someone said before. And I really hate the brown Dansco color, it's really an out of date color.

ARCO

I love them but probably wouldn't keep higher priced Unc coins in them. I love to see my sets all at once housed in the albums.

Baley - That is a very nice Type set!

Tyler

ARCO

Baley that 1814 capped bust looks a bit out of place with the other Unc coins. Just go ahead and tell me how much to take that off your hands so that you can focus on perfecting that set. Yeah...just throw out a number and you can thank me later for helping you get what you deserve!

Tyler

mbbiker

The Dansco albums are nice but for circ. coins i use the blue cardboard whitmans for all my circ. coins.

Tootawl

<< <i>I have been looking for an Intercept Shield Type Set album to no avail. I have e-mailed them and it is possible we might see it in the future. >>


I wrote Intercept Shield back in November and this was their repsonse:

We anticipate the release of the album sometime in late spring of 2003. Thank you for your continued interest.

dorkkarl

several of my dansco's i bought in the mid 1970's. they still look brand new.

be extremely careful sliding the shields over the coins. i bend the page ever so slightly convex to ensure the edge will not actually touch the coins. best to leave them alone once you got them in there.

1 other hint, if your slides become scratched up, use car wax to buff out the scratches. ONLY WAX THE OUTER SIDE though.

K S

JoyofCollecting

<< <i>

be extremely careful sliding the shields over the coins. i bend the page ever so slightly convex to ensure the edge will not actually touch the coins. best to leave them alone once you got them in there.

K S >>



Amen!! For uncirculated coins, you may want to think about collecting the set and putting them all in at once so that you don't have to continually slide the plastic back and forth over coins every time you add a coin.

dorkkarl

totally agree. keep 'em in flips until ready to assemble the entire row. great advice, joyofcollecting!

K S

g097103

I like the Dansco albums. Almost all my collections are housed in these. The only thing I have slabbed is proofs. I would
reiterate the warning about the slides, I push the coin in below the level of the slide before I close it.

dorkkarl

1 other bit of advice i almost forgot. recommend you DON'T use cotton gloves to push the coin in, as i found that fibers sometimes get caught between the coin edge & the cardboard & trapped. drives me nuts to be scanning my album w/ a glass - & discovering a couple of these annoying fibers. i use a "nubby" glass rod to gently encourage the coins in

K S

BlueCole

I've got a Dansco for my BU Rosies, and i really lke it. Like other said, either wait till you get a full row (which is really hard to do!!) or puch the coins below the slide line. I use powder free latex gloves to push mine in, as the hole tend to be samll.

B.

NumisEd

DorkKarl,

You use a "nubby" glass rod to push the coins in? Car wax for cleaning the plastic slides? Hey dude, stay away from my coins!

Baley

that made me laugh

paigowjohnny

I've got a mostly BU Morgan date set, BU Walker short set, and some circ cents and Liberty nickels in Danscos. I really like them....but I think they're better for the smaller coins. The dollar coins...because of their size...there isn't a whole lot of room to spare in the holes.

Baley

yes, I agree with paigowjohnny, also, because the dollar coins are heavy, when you turn the page, sometimes you lift the paper cover and it gets separated from the center. have to be careful.