Albums for Slabbed Coins

I have some surplus pages like this which I never used, and two binders I bought for the purpose. Sent you a PM.

Though those Lighthouse brand pages are sturdier and more popular with a lot of folks, I switched to Eagle brand pages because they suited my needs more. (But the Lighthouse albums are superior, so I use Eagle pages in a Lighthouse album.)

The reason I do this is because the Lighthouse pages, which fully enclose the slabs, have to be dismounted and popped open to rearrange the slabs in them, whereas the Eagle pages allow you to pull individual coins out or put them in without having to dismount the page from the album.

There is a tradeoff there. For longterm durability, you're probably better off going with the Lighthouse pages, since the Eagle ones tend to suffer from plastic fatigue on the bands which hold the slabs in their otherwise-open slots. (Or so I've been told- I've never had a problem with that myself.)

I keep my slabbed coins in a double-row Intercept box inside my safe-deposit box for 95% of the time. I just have the albums for a more appealing display option when I'm traveling and doing show-and-tell. So I personally prefer the Eagle pages for this, as they make rearranging slabs within the album a bit easier. And when I'm doing show-and-tell, a person looking at my collection can take a single slab out of the album to look at it without having to dismount and pop open the whole page.

If your coins are going to live in the album all the time, however (if you have a big enough safe, for instance), I'd go with the Lighthouse pages.

Some of this was covered in a previous thread I posted.

 

Either Lighthouse or Eagle brand slab pages will hold PCGS, NGC, newer ANACS, and ICG holders.

Eagle also used to have white foam U-ring adaptors which allow you to fit old small white ANACS holders into the pages snugly. Those might be hard to find nowadays, however.

I like my hybrid system with the Eagle pages and Lighthouse binders. I explained my reason for using the Eagle pages above, but I must say the Lighthouse binders are way nicer and come with slipcases. The Eagle binders, by contrast, are Spartan and lack slipcases, and you could get a comparable if not better binder more cheaply at an office supply store. Buy their pages, if you prefer them for the reasons I mentioned above, but don't waste your money on the whole binder setup.

For someone else, I would probably recommend going Lighthouse all the way except for buying some of those Eagle brand small ANACS adaptors, if you can find them. They would likely work OK inside the Lighthouse pages.

 

The Lighthouse brand pages, since they fully enclose each pocket, can also be used to temporarily hold a raw coin in a regular flip while it awaits certification, for example. Sure, it would rattle around loosely in there, but it wouldn't fall out because the whole page and all nine pockets are snapped shut.

By contrast, the Eagle pages have open pockets with just a clear band across them which holds the slab in place. This suits my personal needs better, but you couldn't put a regular 2x2 flip in there and expect it to stay- it would just fall right out of the open slot.

Pictures of an Eagle brand album with Eagle brand pages here, since the ones on their own website aren't so great.