Album Collectors Unite!

FrattLaw · May 14, 2003 9:38AM

While I'm not about to abandon collecting certified coins, I am really liking the "old school" method of coin collecting!

I already have several albums sets completed (Dansco, Library of Congress and old Whitman) and several that I'm working on, but I just got a great package in the mail today!

Complete sets of Wayte Raymond Boards for a US Type Set, Peace Dollars & Roosevelt Dimes! All brand new, never been used. You gotta love WR albums. Just the history behind these and potential for the magical color showing up on the coins shortly before you die!

There's just something more natural about a coin in an album as opposed to a plastic slab. You can feel the weight of an entire set, the substance of a complete set of dollars is something. The ability to be able to look at several of the coins at the same time. None of the damn glare either.

I can still smell the sulfur on these boards! I'm thinking about getting a couple of more of the blank dollar boards and doing a Unc modern commem set. Imagine that, a complete modern commem set with WR toning. Granted it might take 20 years, but I'll wait!

Here's too albums!

Michael

jeffnpcb · May 14, 2003 9:45AM

I've transfered alot from old Whitmans to Dansco albums. 2 Lincoln sets from '09 to current, Mercury Dimes mostlt FB's about 75% complete, Franklin Halves, Jeffersons and two type sets. Alot of the quality coins, FSB's, FBL's and the top coins have all beeen cracked out. Have a few 5 gallon buckets of shattered plastic, but kept the labels in envelopes for future reference! I bought several Eagle slab books for alot of my Proof Cameo sets because I hate to break those out at the prices I paid for them.
But my Dansco's for lose coins are my favorites!!

nucklehead · May 14, 2003 9:56AM

With all due respect,make mine white.I saw for the first time at JamminJ's coin party his 'Intersept Shield'album full of Walking halfs and was quite impressed with the quality of those albums.I do own three Dansco though and like as well.

baccaruda · May 14, 2003 9:58AM

amen brutha! filling Danscos is the way to go.

ccr · May 14, 2003 10:02AM

I just ordered some Whitman folders and some Capital holders this week. Also considering dusting off and resurecting a Whitman `09 - `41 Lincoln that`s about 1/3 complete. I agree, coin collecting just isn`t complete without at least 1 complete album of raw coins. Whether it be Dansco/Whitman/Harris/Wayte Raymond.

Striker · May 14, 2003 10:03AM

I agree, I love the Dansco albums.

FrattLaw · May 14, 2003 10:10AM

You guys gotta try the Wayte Raymonds, there's something about putting old coins, in MS condition into old albums. Its sorta nostalgic. Maybe I'm just a sap for history though.

Michael

halfnut · May 14, 2003 9:23PM

I just tranfered all my sets to Dansco's from 2x2's and was shocked at how may sets I have. 12 sets with with 7 being complete. So now I have gone back to filling holes in them and taking a break from my 3 slabbed sets.

Steve27 · May 14, 2003 9:33PM

FrattLaw, do you have any pics of the boards?

Barry · May 14, 2003 9:44PM

I, too, like the Dansco album approach. It gives more of a sense of continuity than seeing a box-full of 2x2s.

I wonder how you album guys deal with the occasional slab (want those key dates authenticated) in your albums? I just put a little piece of paper in the hole with the coin's grade and slab company. Other ideas?

BlueCole · May 14, 2003 11:02PM

since i'm almost no slabs (i only have two) Most of my collection is in Albums--I've completed 4 or 5 (lincs, rosies, GW quaters, and jeff nicks) I'm also working on a set of BU rosies in a dansco. It looks awsome!!!

B.

dorkkarl · May 14, 2003 11:06PM

<< <i>I've transfered alot from old Whitmans to Dansco albums >>

i've transferred A LOT of coins from plastic to dansco. the coins appreciate it

K S

TommyB · May 14, 2003 11:33PM

I like using albums because it helps give me direction in what I need to collect. I used to buy almost anything that I liked, but now I have my "want list" of holes still open in my albums, and that is what I take to the shows I go to. It is fun clearing out the want list as I get them, and keeps me focused. I am using Intercept Shield albums. The only problem with them is that they are limited in what is available. I have complete JFK and ASE sets. Rosie and Jeffersons are almost complete, leaving me with LIncolns and Washingtons yet to go. I am getting to the expensive years of both of those, so it will take some time. They will be MS for the most part, with the more expensive dates in AU. The really key dates I will buy slabbed, and keep them separate. I like being able to take them off the shelf and looking at them.

oh yeah, my 5 year old enjoyed watching me work on these, so he wanted to get involved. So he now has his own 20th century type set we are working on. What more can you ask for?

morganbarber · May 14, 2003 11:47PM

I have Danscos for some of my better series, but I love the Whitman classic albums. To house old coins in antique albums just makes the set feel balanced and consistent.

MrEureka · May 15, 2003 1:08AM

You're all a bunch of dinosaurs!

On the other hand, I like the old albums too. I have boxes full of EMPTY gem BU Wayte Raymond and Library of Coins albums. One day, they'll slab them too and I'll make a killing.

Baley · May 15, 2003 2:00AM

you all know I luvs me albums~!

LucyBop · May 15, 2003 2:04AM

I just purchased a Wayte Raymond Winged Liberty album..... now, I need some brilliant dimes......

jadecoin · May 15, 2003 2:14AM

MrEureka, are any of those Wayte Raymond boards for sale?

- Jadecoin

Bigern · May 15, 2003 2:21AM

I went to albums about 6 months ago when the slabbed market was being driven by emotions rather than cool heads. I do collect SAC's and when I seen this week a 2003P MS68 on BIN for $450.00 I said I'll stick with my albums. This is an extreme but the average on these at auction is $150-$200, to much to pay for a coin that has been out only a month or so. I have since started a SAC album and am thinking of bagging the slabbed alltogether.

Bigern

MrEureka · May 15, 2003 2:59AM

MrEureka, are any of those Wayte Raymond boards for sale?

Sorry, I don't have any duplicates for sale.

IrishMike · May 15, 2003 3:08AM

I have two whitmans I purchased in 1959, one full with IHC's the other with Lincoln cents. My other IHC au/bu set is in the green bookcase album, intercept shield to further protect them. My walkers, roosies, mercs and Lib Nicks are in Whitmans with the sliders.

Clankeye · May 15, 2003 3:20AM

I'll bet those are a great pleasure to sit down and look at, Mike.

Clankeye

Baley · May 15, 2003 3:23AM

paigowjohnny · May 15, 2003 3:25AM

My Walker short set is in a Dansco, and I'm already cracking slabs to put the upgrades in.

Just bought the infamous Dansco type set album....have a slabbed large and half cent coming in which will be cracked out and added to the book.

Can't bring myself to crack my Morgans for a Dansco though.

northcoin · May 15, 2003 3:31AM

Barry - excellent question. (What do you do when you have some of your key date coins in slabs and want to complete an alblum?) Your idea about putting a note or post it in the hole referencing the slab may work but wouldn't it be nice if the album pages were subject to fitting into a 3 ring binder into which slab holding pages could be inserted as needed? Does anyone make such an alblum page? Maybe there is some way of adding three holes to the edge of a single page alblum by glueing on a strip of thin wood and drilling holes in it? It seems there are slab holding pages available that would fit in 3 ring binders.

IrishMike · May 15, 2003 3:38AM

northcoin, yes there are binders and slab pages out there for just what you are talking about. I see them advertised in Coin World. There have been some threads on here about them. I think Russ has some.

IrishMike · May 15, 2003 3:44AM

Maybe this is a generational thing, I don't know. I started collecting by grabbing pocket change and sticking it into albums. I grew up in a small town the bank let me search their cents, as did several merchants. It was more fun for me to find the coin rather than go buy it, even if the purchase was a nicer example. I still get a kick out of showing an unslabbed IHC to a serious collector of high grade cents or serious IHC dealer and watching their reaction or guessing what is going through their mind. They usually spend all of 2 seconds looking at it and have a blank stare or glazed over look. I find something of interest in every collectible coin I look at. It's just easier to view it when it's not encased.

paigowjohnny · May 15, 2003 4:49AM

I've got some of the slab pages...they're better than nothing, but don't dazzle me. They're made of rigid plastic and can very easily crack if you're not careful.

In my Lincoln cent Dansco, I cut a little piece of cardboard the size and shape of a penny and stuck it in the 09-S VDB, 09-S, and 14-D holes with a little note "ANACS" or "NGC". Just couldn't bring myself to crack those key dates for an album.

TommyB · May 15, 2003 5:20AM

Hey Baley, those are really nice!!

Album Collectors Unite!

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