My understanding is Dansco makes their albums to be "safe" for long term coin storage and purposely build their pages to be less reactive. If you were trying to album tone your eagles I don't think a Dansco would be the album of choice.
If you want an album that may induce toning use a Littleton album. They have a tendency to create some killer blue rim toners on ase's. If you do not want toning then dansco is as safe as they come. Here's an example of a Littleton album toned ase...
I have a few in a Dansco along with a bunch of silver rounds. After more than 15 years they have a little yellow toning around the edges. A person could probably speed up the process by taking the pages out of the album and storing them in a worm humid place. Giving each one a quick dip before putting them in the pages would also speed up the toning process. Be ready for anything. They may just turn out ugly.
Old albums had chemicals in them that would induce toning. This was unintentional, but sometimes attractive. New albums are made with archival materials, and should not tone coins.
I have a Dansco page with some 40% Kennedys that's just laid in a cardboard box for maybe 10 years. It's slow, but some have developed some rainbow rim toning.
Absolutely, don't do it. I had to take all my Silver Eagles out because they were toning. I put mine in airtite holders, then into a Caps Album made for airtites. You can find Caps Albums at Capsalbums.com, or go to Valleycoin.com to buy Caps Albums.
Absolutely, don't do it. I had to take all my Silver Eagles out because they were toning. I put mine in airtite holders, then into a Caps Album made for airtites. You can find Caps Albums at Capsalbums.com, or go to Valleycoin.com to buy Caps Albums.
Correct. CAPS albums are regarded as the best protection. However, they are very expensive at about $60 for both books of all ase years PLUS another $50 +/- for all the airtites. And the mint capsules that proof and burnished come in do not fit so you have to put them in the separately sold CAPS airtites as well. Also, CAPS albums are HUGE, very large and thick compared to a dansco or other albums Now, about your dansco. It's gotta be the atmosphere where you store them.more than the compunds in the cardboard I have a high quality with proof set right now stored in a littleton album because I want to induce toning rather than prevent it. Sure, it's a gamble as the colors can turn out crappy but I like to live dangerously
I think it's more correct to say that CAPS albums are inert. Intercept albums probably offer better protection because (except for the Intercept material), they're also inert, and the Intercept material itself binds to compounds that would otherwise cause toning. You could simulate this by putting your CAPS album inside some kind of large, thick plastic bag and including some sacrificial copper cents.
I've had my ASE's in a Dansco since the early 90's with no appreciable toning. The toning that does occur is a muddy brown and it mostly occurs in the coins nearest the binding. The above has not changed much over the past 8 years other than to get darker with some blue highlights if you can make it past the feces brown.
I to had a set in a dansco album,started them in the begining "86" They have all "toned". Hate that word for this! I personally would not call these "Toned" I would consider these ruined by the chemicals leaking out of the material the book is made from and attacking the coin. It has nothing to do with the natural toning of a coin. At best Artificially toned, And UGLY!!
