This thread will be dedicated to the handcrafted albums I have been making since the 2020-2021 period. It is my intent to share newly crafted albums here, along with articles, podcasts, or videos talking about the albums. Related projects may also be posted and public requests can be made in the comments.

If you have ordered or received one of my albums, you are welcome to share it in this thread as well.

Due to the fact that I am among the few individuals making such products, my production methods are private and are not up for discussion.

A Brief History of the Albums

This whole project began with a singular quest to have an album for Seated Liberty Dimes, a venture that I spent three years on prior to the eighteen-month endeavor to create my own first album:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1066141/i-made-my-own-album-for-seated-liberty-dimes

From there I branched out, making albums for Nickel Three Cents with Proofs, Half Dimes, Bust Dimes, and Indian Head Eagles. A couple of these were inspired by fellow collectors.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1069679/more-homemade-albums

A Proof Only Lincoln Cent album followed for my personal collection:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1079969/homemade-albums-for-proof-lincoln-cents-and-gold#latest

More albums would come along, as well as the first serious customer requests, including orders for Large Cents, Gold Sovereigns, a Queen Victoria type set, a Newfoundland collector's set, mint-specific sets for Carson City and West Point, Innovation Dollars with Reverse Proofs, and quite a few more.

During this time period, I learned the hard way that coin diameters listed in various reference materials, particularly for World coins, are often inaccurate. As a result, new requests for world coin albums can not be completed until actual measurements made by digital calipers are obtained.

At some point I began developing a website for the albums and my photography portfolio. The website is built to allow users to choose various components of the desired album from the dates and varieties printed inside to cover designs. The programming has been a headache at times but also is most necessary to provide the service of customization. I do not believe there could have been another method outside of building the website from scratch to achieve this goal.

https://www.donahuenumismatics.com/

In October 2023, I gave a talk at the EAC Regional Meeting at the Manchester, NH show and presented the albums. The talk was later published in one of the club's regular magazine issues.

In 2024, I developed the first pocket-sized albums for smaller sets. These have proven to be much more popular than I had anticipated. Early 2025 would bear witness to the first albums produced in languages other than English.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1114081/some-pocket-sized-albums-to-show-long-post-w-photos

In July 2025, an article about the custom albums was published in CoinWeek:
https://coinweek.com/collector-turns-passion-into-innovation-the-story-of-donahues-coin-albums/

In December 2025, I was a guest host on the American Coin & Currency podcast to talk about the albums:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s0LdPJkxiA

As of this initial post, I have created 100+ handcrafted albums.

A List of Available Albums

TEMPLATES - Fully Customizable with dates, mintmarks, varieties, etc.
-- United States
1) Half Cents
2) Large Cents
3) Indian Head Cents
4) Proof Lincoln Cents
5) Two Cent Pieces
6) Nickel Three Cents
7) Shield Nickels
8) Liberty Nickels
9) Buffalo Nickels
10) Jefferson Nickels

11) Silver Three Cents
12) Half Dimes
13) Draped Bust and Capped Bust Dime
14) Seated Liberty Dimes
15) Barber Dimes
16) Mercury Dimes
17) Roosevelt Dimes
18) Seated Liberty Quarters
19) Barber Quarters
20) Standing Liberty Quarters
21) Washington Quarters
22) Capped Bust Half Dollars
23) Seated Liberty Half Dollars
24) Barber Half Dollars
25) Walking Liberty Half Dollars
26) Franklin Half Dollars
27) Kennedy Half Dollars
28) Seated Liberty Dollars
29) Trade Dollars
30) Sacagawea Dollars
31) Native American Dollars

32) Gold Dollars
33) Liberty Head Quarter Eagles
34) Indian Head Quarter Eagles
35) Liberty Head Half Eagles
36) Indian Head Half Eagles
37) Liberty Head Eagles
38) Indian Head Eagles
39) Liberty Head Double Eagles
40) Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles

-- Australia
41) Half Pennies
42) Pennies
43) 3 Pence
44) 6 Pence
45) Shillings
46) Florins
47) Half Sovereigns
48) Sovereigns

-- British West Africa
49) Shillings

-- Fiji
50) Pennies
51) 6 Pence

-- German States, Prussia
52) 2 Mark

-- Germany, Third Reich
53) 1 Pfennig
54) 2 Pfennig
55) 5 Mark

-- Great Britain
56) Farthings
57) Half Pennies
58) Pennies
59) Silver 3 Pence
60) Brass 3 Pence
61) 6 Pence
62) Shillings
63) Half Sovereigns
64) Sovereigns

-- Ireland
65) Farthings
66) Half Pennies
67) Pennies
68) 3 Pence
69) 6 Pence
70) Shillings
71) Florins
72) Half Crowns

-- Newfoundland
73) Cents
74) 5 Cents
75) 10 Cents
76) 20 Cents & 25 Cents
77) 50 Cents

-- New Zealand
78) Half Pennies
79) Pennies
80) 3 Pence
81) 6 Pence
82) Shillings
83) Florins
84) Half Crowns

-- Switzerland
85) 1 Rappen
86) 2 Rappen
87) Half Francs
88) Francs

TYPE SETS - Select pre-organized type sets
-- United States
89) Two Cents & Nickel Three Cents
90) Gold Type
91) Carson City Mint Type Set
92) West Point Mint Type Set

-- Canada
93) Atlantic Canada Type Set

-- Great Britain
94) Queen Victoria Type Set

-- Newfoundland
95) Newfoundland Collector's Set

POCKET ALBUMS - Select pre-organized type sets in a pocket-sized album
-- United States
96) Flying Eagle Cents
97) Two Cent Pieces
98) Twenty Cent Pieces
99) West Point Mint Quarters
100) Susan B. Anthony Dollars
101) Classic Head Quarter Eagles
102) Classic Head Half Eagles
103) Gold Commemoratives
104) Copper-Nickel Cents
105) Carson City Mint Type Set
106) Charlotte Mint Type Set
107) Dahlonega Mint Type Set
108) New Orleans Mint Type Set

-- Belgian Congo
109) Pachyderm Coins

-- Canada
110) Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, & New Brunswick

-- Fiji
111) Half Pennies

-- Germany, Weimar Republic
112) 4 Reichspfennig

-- Greenland
113) Greenland Type Set

-- Hawaii
114) Hawaii Type Set (available in both English and Hawaiian)

-- Newfoundland
115) Small Cents
116) 2 Dollars

-- Puerto Rico
117) Five Coin Type Set (available in both English and Spanish)