why don't any of the album companies make an album to take coins in airtites since so many collectors use them instead of having there coins slabbed ?
Because it would likely be too costly. You can make up your own DANSCO albums by buying the correct mm openings to fit the air tites. I think you can do the same with Lighthouse albums. What bothers me more is that the 3 major album producers do not do more for the very popular countries. Whitman did away with Canada albums and now only have folders. Plus they never made slip cases so I switched over to all DANSCO and Littleton albums. At the very least I think Canada and Great Britain should be represented in their lines as both are very popular countries to collect. They do, after all, still represent Ireland and Australia and Casino Chips. Even DANSCO has cut back production on quite a few U.S. albums but I have no clue why. They are always out of stock at major supply chains.
Some companies do make albums for Air-Tites. The problem is that like almost all other albums - the albums are harmful to your coins. This is because the albums are made with things like cardboard, paper, glues, and PVC laden plastics - all of which are harmful to coins. So the trick is not in finding albums, the trick is finding albums that are made of inert products that are not harmful to coins !
It's all about cost these days... You can always make your own digital coin album if you have the time and right software.
If the coins are in Air-Tites, does it really matter what the album is made of? The coin never comes in contact with the album. Technology has by-passed this field. We seem to be a mature bunch here, well past the age of pushing worn lincolns into cardboard. My favorite now is filling in my Dansco 7070, but it is still just a tarted up version of those old Whitmans. Why not a standard album size, of non damaging plastic, with cutouts sized for 2X2's in which you could snap Air-Tite's for each individual coin? It would take advantage of what exists, and solve most of the existing problems. You could easily swap coins, examine them, buy and sell, without chance of damage. I dont know. Maybe those more primitive methods are responsible for the toning craze? Dansco doesnt seem to be keeping up. They ignored a shortage of 7070's for years.
Dansco is a family-run business that takes the entire month of December off for Christmas. Yeah, you could reasonably argue that they aren't keeping up. Well... they are in the coin business after all...
https://www.capsalbums.com Someone had an article on this a while back. I really cannot wait to get my hands on one. They even do personalized items as well!
Dansco will personalize albums for a small extra fee. Wish I knew about it earlier so I did not have to use the gold foil.
Yeah, I found out about that little factoid after I had already hired a company to hot-foil stamp my own frankenstein Dancso airtite albums.
Yes, it matters a lot. Ya see, contact between the coin and the album is not the issue, contact has nothing to do with anything. The issue is gas, specifically the gas put off by the album and its components. All items decay, and as they decay they put off gasses, and it is these gasses that are harmful to coins. So the closer the coins are to the source of those gasses, the worse it is for the coins because there will be a higher concentration of those gasses in the air. And since Air-Tites are not airtight to begin with, and since the plastic they are made of is air permeable, all those harmful gasses still get to your coins. Even vinyl flips, that are infamous for depositing PVC residue on coins, that PVC residue is first put off as a gas and then that gas is what deposits the PVC residue onto your coins. Contact with the flip has nothing to do with it. Your coin could be laying outside the flip, but close to it, and PVC residue would still get deposited onto the coin. So albums that have any vinyl in the cover, or the inner pages - they put PVC residue on your coins too ! Just like the flips do. The one and only answer is to keep all materials that are not inert - away from your coins.
