Advice needed on Dansco album slides

keez

I've seen pics of coins in Dansco albums on this forum that looked like the slide was not present. I wondered if you think it's best to keep the coins in the albums with or without the plastic slides over the obverses. Do you get concerned about them making slide marks across the obverse of the coins. Thanks in advance.

Shamika

<< <i> I've seen pics of coins in Dansco albums on this forum that looked like the slide was not present. >>


People remove the slides to take better images. Otherwise, the slides stay put.

pontiacinf

holy smokes greg marguli did an excellent post about this subject a few years back....seems he was in search of a specific date of kennedy for years in hi grade. he could not locate one above a "66" range...this went on for many years (not sure of the date, but it was a tuff one to make. long story short he found this set in a dansco that had the exact coin he was looking for, and it appeared to be 68+ until he took a loupe to it, and saw the marks from sliders.

now I know i butcherd his story, and no way could I ever wish to tell a story as good as he did, but man the way he did tell it, its still stuck in my memory today

i miss his evil threads

Shamika

Baley

When sliding the slides, one must push the thick coins (nickel size and larger) away from the front slide, slide that slide, then push it back away from the back slide, and then slide that one.

I leave my slides in place except when changing coins or taking photographs.

mirabela

I don't put anything valuable in my dansco in grades above 62 or so. The risk of slide marks can be reduced but never eliminated. I've got sort of a dummy set of low-grade commemoratives in there, for instance, because I don't want to subject my front-line set of them to this sort of damage.

topstuf

When I finished a row in the 7070, I put a staple through the end of the page and both front and back slides. When I didn't do that, I used the Whitman plastic page end protectors that kept the slides from moving.
Edited to add: It also helped if I took the thing to a show. I had more than one dealer look at the book and the first thing they did was SLIIIIIDDDDEEEEE the thing open to see the surface better. NOT with a staple they didn't.

INXS

My slides only get slid once and thats after all the holes on that row are filled then I carefully slide it back and it stays that way.

mirabela

Yeah, fasten them in place like topstuf said. I use a little piece of tape once section is done.