Whitman Deluxe Album. Either way, Go to Brent-Krueger.com when you place your order - they have the best prices hands down.
Dansco. I buy from Vernon Coin Center since they are reasonable and located in Connecticut. They do have an e-bay store. But I drive over there and save the 6 bucks shipping. And I don't wait for the mailman. Recently I bought a Whitman Classic for IHC. Saved a couple bucks. But what a royal pain it is to insert coins. Plus the pages are "puffed up", and turning pages without being extra careful lifts the edges of the paper. Next time it will be Dansco, period. By the way I do have two green Littleton albums. One for Walkers and the other for Peace dollars. I am pleased with the quality of the Littleton albums. Not pleased with Littleton in general.
This is the albums I have been using for my Morgans and Franklins. They use the plastic slides so you can see both sides of the coin. ( now that I look, they are made by Whitman )
\ Surprized that you use a folder for any coins. If you mean the folders with slots for pushing coins into, note the back of those slots. That shinny stuff is glue left over from the manufacturing process. As to which album, here is my 2 cents. I use Whitman Classic Albums only. Several reasons. For one I agree that the Dansco looks more impressive on a shelf. I would never suggest to anyone to leave a coin album of any type in plane view. Just way to many, sort of, dishonest people out there. So if your not displaying your albums, then why pay more for the rich brown look. Yes there are also several other brands out there such as the Intercept ones but again, are you displaying your albums? Then there too are the Littleton ones and I'm sure most would say YUK to that company. There are numerous reasons I suggest Whitman. For one thing they carry a much larger variety of albums. They also carry a large variety of addtional pages for thier albums. They also carry a large variety of items for replacements such as the plastic slides, blank pages, Gold press on letters/numbers for those blank pages. You can add enough pages to an album to make it whatever you want or create your own version of an album. And they are all the same color, Blue. As to keeping your coins in perfect condition, the album is not important. I just put all my albums in zip lock plastic bags and push out as much air as possible. Any album in such a bag is safe from the elements. Except a fire of course. One of the nice things about Whitman is the availability. They are sold at most coin stores I've ever seen, many hobby stores, other stores such as Walmart books web sites, coin shows, etc. At coin shows I get to know the dealers by constantly talking to as many as possible. Many of these dealers buy such albums from people, take out all the coins and place in separate 2x2's. They make more money this way. Now just what do they do with the empty albums? I've asked. Most throw them away. A few dealers said I could have as many as I wanted. One dealer brought me two large boxes of empty albums and all free. I now have well over 100 Whitman Albums and most were free. Try asking at coin shows. Nothing to loose.
