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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1087951, member: 26030&quot;]I thought I would buy 3 coin albums for my American Silver Eagle collection and see which one I liked best.&nbsp; Feel free to chime in with your own findings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the Album Photos below are stock photos of each Album for other series.</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1st Place:&nbsp; Intercept Shield </b></p><p>[ATTACH]108450.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>This album had the best outside finish,&nbsp; very slick and polished.&nbsp; The pages turned easily.&nbsp; The inside the color (dark green) was, by far, the best and provided the&nbsp; best contrast with the bright silver coins.&nbsp; I could not find ANYTHING&nbsp; wrong with this superb album.&nbsp; This Silver Eagle album had 1 slot per&nbsp; coin year, a format i prefer -- presumably to be filled with the bullion strikes and they were printed up to year 2012. </p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2nd Place:&nbsp; Dansco</b></p><p>[ATTACH]108456.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>This album was well made. The pages turned easily. However my biggest complaint was the drab brown color of the outside. And the sickly tan color of the inside.&nbsp; My silver coins just sort of faded away in the drab colored pages.&nbsp; This album also had holes for 1 coin per year for the bullion strikes, which i prefer.</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>3rd Place: Littleton</b></p><p>[ATTACH]108457.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>I didnt like the binder rings very much.&nbsp; The pages often got stuck when turning the pages.&nbsp; The outside color and printing was very nice.&nbsp; However the inside color, sort of an off-white didn&#039;t provide enough contrast for silver coins.&nbsp; Although I did like the color of the inside pages much more than the sickly tan of the Dansco.&nbsp; They printed holes for the 2006-2010 W mintmark coins -- a format that some might like, but I didn&#039;t.&nbsp; They incorrectly printed a hole for the 2009-W coin which was never struck.&nbsp; When I spoke to Littleton about this misprint, they suggested I replace page 3 with a blank page (not a very elegant solution)</p><p><br /></p><p>None of the albums printed holes for the proofs, which was fine with me.</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>So here is page 2 of my ASE collection in the Intercept Shield Album.</p><p>Excuse the bad blurry photo below ... i took it under dim kitchen lighting with my iphone.</p><p>The dark green color really makes the coins pop!</p><p>The Intercept Shield is hands down my favorite coin album.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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