If you collect large cents, you have the option of using Whitman coin albums that provide one slot for each year, 1793-1857, not including 1815. However, there are many varieties of large cents, and Dansco sells an album that includes about fifty percent more coins. What do you use to house your coins if you want to collect ALL the varieties?
I'm starting a similar set with Half Cents. Why use an album to start with? I use 2x2 flips housed in a regular 3-ring binder. You can write a lot of information on the 2x2 paper inserts that go in to the flips as well.
Any typical 3-ring binder will do, for example...... You will need to get some plastic pages designed to hold 2x2 flips/cardboard...like The end product will look something like this......
I started collecting in a Dansco a few years ago. I gave up and now keep those coins in Airtites for fear of their degradation -- I feel like I'm in better control of the coin's micro-climate outside the album and in the added protection of the airtite.
I find that wrapping them in old underwear is more secure than a safe. :thumb: (my underwear, anyway)
I am using the same method as Texasjarhead, one change I might make is to use every other square to list the year/variety/condition next to each coin.
I would put them in airtites if there was an album that held them - that I did not have to build it. As it is yours are probably much nicer than mine.
Nothing wrong with this, unless you are going to take a stab at collecting the varieties. Dansco doesn't have an album with holes for all of the varieties. I guess if they made an album for Large Cents that didn't have the holes labeled, one could go that route.
Not sure what you mean by all of the varieties? But no it does not include a spot for every variety of every date. The dansco album has most major varieties included. I do wish there were a couple of other varieties in the book. My 1811/0 is in the back with the 1817 15 stars. Still completing just the varieties listed in the dansco is a lot of work.
That's what I meant. If someone wants to try to collect all of the varieties, then a Dansco album probably isn't the way to go.
2X2's in a 3 ring binder are the best way to go for varieties. You can choose exactly which ones to collect.
i don't like someone else deciding which varieties i should have in my collection. That's the main reason I don't like the albums for Large Cents. So, i keep them in a binder.
