LIBRARY OF COINS ALBUMS

TWODOGS

I just picked up a "General Dollars" album. It has 36 unmarked holes in 4 double paned pages. Made in 1959. The perfect home for all those uncirculated odds and ends in my Morgan/Peace hoard. If it's anything like my Library of Coins album for half dollars, the coins should be rather pretty a few years down the road.

Baley

second thread tonight i get to use these pics









same c. date as yours, 1959, but might have been manufactured in the 60's.

TWODOGS

Very nice. Mine's Vol. 27. Yeah, they could have been made in the 60's.

SarasotaFrank

I have a type set one - I think vol 58. Haven't used it and bought it with a bunch of type coins in it. None of them developed any color, and as best as I can tell, they were in the book for about 40 years.

TWODOGS

<< <i>I have a type set one - I think vol 58. Haven't used it and bought it with a bunch of type coins in it. None of them developed any color, and as best as I can tell, they were in the book for about 40 years. >>

Huh. My Kennedys have some nice blues, reds and golds developing.

291fifth

<< <i>Very nice. Mine's Vol. 27. Yeah, they could have been made in the 60's. >>



Library of Coins Albums were introduced in 1958 and discontinued in the early 1980's. They were very well made and remain my favorite albums. Many were originally sold by department store coin departments. They were more expensive than the Whitman Bookshelf albums which had a more general distribution.

dragon

Library of Coins albums are cool for sure and a collectable in their own right. Although being so old, they may not necessarily tone your coins anymore because whatever chemicals were used in the cardboard when they were made may no longer be present I've been told. I've also been told to smell the album pages, if they have no odor, chances are the pages will not tone your coins, or it will take a very long time. Regardless, they are still cool as coin albums go.

dragon