Albums for UK coins?

cscoins

I've just returned from England where I've picked up a nearly complete set of post-decimalisation 1GBP coins and I'd like to put them in an album. Can anyone recommend a good album like Dansco or Intercept Shield to keep them in? My searches have turned up nothing so far.

TIA!

wybrit

I don't think there are any albums for post-decimalisation coins, good or otherwise. Sylvestius, have you heard of any on your side of the pond?

Sylvestius

I haven't heard of any. Although i must admit i've not seen any predecimal albums over here either. I know they exist but us Brits don't tend to use them. We tend to either use plastic envelopes, 2x2s or coin trays/cabinets. Airtites are used by some but are not encounter much.

AndyBruce

Personally I would use a coin tray.

Thanks

Andy

Sylvestius

And i use a cabinet. For coins where the surfaces matter (i.e ones that will show cabinet friction) i keep them in airtites and then put them in the cabinet.

I have a handful of coins in 2x2s that have arrived but have not yet been freed.

1960NYGiants

I use a Canadian Wholesale Supply blank album for my Canadian Provinces set. Album #49 and selected pages. Available here.

Hope this helps,

Gene

cscoins

Thank you all for the excellent advice. Its interesting that collectors on either side of the pond keep their treasures so differently.

Steve27

About a year and a half ago, I was in the UK. I asked for albums at several coin shops, and all they had were the binders with plastic pages that hold roughly 20 coins per page of any size (i.e. nothing like a Dansco).

Sylvestius

<< <i>About a year and a half ago, I was in the UK. I asked for albums at several coin shops, and all they had were the binders with plastic pages that hold roughly 20 coins per page of any size (i.e. nothing like a Dansco). >>



Yep i used to have those except mine were cheapos with PVC, didn't find that out till it was too late...eek.

I gave up with that idea very swiftly, soon after.

SYRACUSIAN

If the diameter of these modern pounds matches the diameter of a US coin,(for ex. nickel) then I'd use blank Dansco pages of this denomination, just without the lettering.



Sylvestius, I too discovered these albums late, but I can assure you that they are one step ahead of the albums used in Europe, both visually and practically. Placing the coins in matching slots beats the 2x2 system IMO.I can tell that you're not very open to new suggestions, a true coin collector.



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drjules

Hey nice album. I have the 20th century silver type set version. Here is a good supplier of books and holders

GBIE

Dr J

Sylvestius

Well they're not exactly a new idea to me Dimitri i've seen them around on the internet for a few years now.

I don't use 2x2s i tried them but i've noticed that they are unsuitable for the conditions in my house. In the summer months you can imagine how a rather large and poorly insulated Victorian house gets rather humid, and since the old sash windows are painted shut and the weight ropes have bust you can't open the windows either to reduce the temperature, although in the winter months they let all the heat out. I had some zinc German reichspfennigs (only low grade scrappers) that had been sent by someone as part of a trade. I'd had them about three weeks and you could see the coins were beginning to sweat inside the film, i broke them out pretty quickly but they were a little on the damp side.

So i don't use any type of storage where plastic comes into contact with the coin (airtites excepted, i like airtites).

The Dansco type albums i dislike because the coins can tone in them, the last thing i want is an album that induces toning on copper/bronze or silver. There's no point buying BU bronze coins if they're gonna turn. I don't like toned copper much.


At present i am using the oldest method in the book the mahogany cabinet method (as the British museum uses), i've had it about 4 years now and i've had no problems, i find the cabinet actually seems to keep alot of the air moisture out. Aklthough i do worry a little about the old problems of cabinet friction and wood resin seepage. The hammered coins i feel perfectly happy with them in the cabinet because the surfaces usually don't matter as much.

With my BU Washington Quarters though i have many of them in airtites in the cabinet. I think perhaps coin trays might be better for those.

SYRACUSIAN

You're right Syl, the cabinet is the ultimate form of storage, even slabs look good in it. But it's a bit too much to ask someone to spend a few thousand $$ to store a couple of dozen modern one pound coins.

A wet climate and a Victorian house, sounds like a toning factory, I think I'd like it very much there.

wybrit

The last time I was at Philip Cohen in downtown London (20 Cecil Street, near Leicester Square tube), he had a pile of Whitman folders in the shop. You could have all you wanted for £2.50 apiece. Some of the less common ones like the florin and halfcrown folders were available.
Granted, that was over five years ago...

The one pound coin is 22.5 mm in diameter, which is approximately the same as the Victorian copper farthing. It is not the same size as any more modern British coin from the £sd era or as any modern US coin. Maybe there is a New Zealand folder for modern coinage? The $1 in NZ is 23.0 mm.