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What are Whitman folder collectors supposed to do?
DBSTrader2
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I'm set in my ways. We have a ton of blue Whitman folders in various degrees of completion for US, Canadian, and several other countries that we have been filling since I was a youngster, and I don't want to turn to any other form of storage, like Albums, etc.
But I feel like the Whitman company has let collectors like myself down in the way they have been issuing new Canadian folders. The most recent quarters & Loonies left a lot to be desired. They had some mistakes (missing holes) or ran out of holes too fast, with no follow-up folders in sight. The last quarters folder barely got me thru 2010 & the Olympic coins! Not very good planning in my opinion.
Not only that, but they only chose to make a few new folders, and not for every denomination which needed them. Why not a Twoonies folder, for example? Plus, I'm running out of space in other folders as well. I have tried using blank US denomination folders in some cases before, but with limited success. There seems to be a very small size difference that allows the Canadian coins (especially quarters) to keep falling out.
Now I know that it's next to impossible for anyone, Whitman included, to keep up with the tons of Canadian varieties & regular vs special circulation coins, but usually they at least leave enough holes available for collectors to maintain the series until there's been time & stability for Whitman to issue the next folder in the series. So what am I & others supposed to do in the meantime to be able to display our collection, vs having them in a container awaiting a new folder? What do other people do, or are there hardly any Whitman folder collectors anymore?
I would hope the very LEAST a company like Whitman could do would be to issue a generic, blank folder full of holes for each denomination that would allow us to build the collection any way we want. Why wouldn't they?
Anyway, just venting, because I will soon be getting some newer coins & have no place to put these either..............
Any thoughts, suggestions, etc would be appreciated!
- - Dave
But I feel like the Whitman company has let collectors like myself down in the way they have been issuing new Canadian folders. The most recent quarters & Loonies left a lot to be desired. They had some mistakes (missing holes) or ran out of holes too fast, with no follow-up folders in sight. The last quarters folder barely got me thru 2010 & the Olympic coins! Not very good planning in my opinion.
Not only that, but they only chose to make a few new folders, and not for every denomination which needed them. Why not a Twoonies folder, for example? Plus, I'm running out of space in other folders as well. I have tried using blank US denomination folders in some cases before, but with limited success. There seems to be a very small size difference that allows the Canadian coins (especially quarters) to keep falling out.
Now I know that it's next to impossible for anyone, Whitman included, to keep up with the tons of Canadian varieties & regular vs special circulation coins, but usually they at least leave enough holes available for collectors to maintain the series until there's been time & stability for Whitman to issue the next folder in the series. So what am I & others supposed to do in the meantime to be able to display our collection, vs having them in a container awaiting a new folder? What do other people do, or are there hardly any Whitman folder collectors anymore?
I would hope the very LEAST a company like Whitman could do would be to issue a generic, blank folder full of holes for each denomination that would allow us to build the collection any way we want. Why wouldn't they?
Anyway, just venting, because I will soon be getting some newer coins & have no place to put these either..............
Any thoughts, suggestions, etc would be appreciated!
- - Dave
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You're not - I used to use them for GB coins and still use them for US Coins that my daughter and I pick up. We fill them with face value pieces.
I share your frustration when it comes to these folders.
For example, I had the original penny folders from 1909-1940 & 1941-?? (including memorial reverses & many undated holes). Then, rather than pick up from a certain date with a folder #3, I believe they re-issued the series with new folder #1 & new folder #2 splitting just the wheaties, and newest folder #3 starting with the Memorials. So I either had to buy all 3 folders & transfer everything over - - which is a pain with the "lock-in" feature of Whitman folders, or I had to leave a gaping bunch of holes in the old folder #2 & move just the Memorials into folder #3................... This happened with several US & Canadian series, if I remember correctly.
I've found some creative ways to use empty spaces or bridge-in old folders, especially with the Canadian half-dollar series when their size changed........
Lucky for me, I only found & pursued filling various "pre-decimal" folders for British, Australian, & New Zealand coins (and, to an extent, Mexican), but it's also interesting that, besides Canadian coins, Whitman never continued from there to produce any decimal folders for those countries. Is that a reflection on the reduced number of post-decimal-series collectors out there for those countries? Or a change in Whitman's retail philosophy?
- - Dave