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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 144284, member: 2100&quot;]I would like to use albums for everything, but there are several drawbacks to that for me. </p><p><br /></p><p>First, related groupings of tokens often vary tremendously in size, and grouping by size would not be at all convenient.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the thousands of tokens I am after, I would also have literally thousands of $$$ in albums to store them all. I collect most types of tokens, so I am interested in essentially hundreds of thousands of tokens. There are well over 12,000 cwts, Rulau&#039;s catalogue has 1200 pages of pre1900 U.S. token listings (only about 120 on cwts), quantities of state merchant tokens will vary of course, but numbers in the 10,000 to 40,000 varieties per state is my guess for a typical range, transits and military are pretty large groups</p><p><br /></p><p>My cwts and a very few other types are somewhat consistent in diameter, so I keep those in albums. While Whitman used to make cwt albums, they are a little hard to find, especially in nice shape. I buy them when I can if the price is reasonable. I also use Danso generic albums and pages. Most albums for cwts are filled with cent pages and usually a nickel or quarter page at the back for the few larger sized ones. Typically I still have to do a little &quot;custom fitting&quot; with my dremel drum sander to enlarge the holes so the tokens will go in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most other tokens go into 2 x 2&#039;s just so they may be grouped together as needed. Some of the smaller or more valuable sub-collections will go into pages in a binder, such as for the counters, exploders, Bryan money, batteries and Hard Times tokens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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