Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PyrotekNX, post: 105566, member: 3918&quot;]I think you have binders and albums confused.&nbsp; Binders have 3 metal rings which binder pages snap into.&nbsp; They are commonly used for sports card collections.&nbsp; They typically are not heavy duty enough for coins which weigh much more than cards do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin albums are completely different.&nbsp; They have holes made in a certain size for a coin to fit.&nbsp; Albums have slides so you can see both sides of the coin.&nbsp; They are also not limited to the 2x2 size so you can fit more coins per page compared to binder pages.&nbsp; In the small cents albums, you can fit 30 coins per page instead of 9.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is where things get a bit complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are tring to put a set together, I would buy a high quality coin album such as Intercept Shield.&nbsp; There isn&#039;t enough I can say about them.&nbsp; They are by far the highest quality product I have used and they have anti-corrosion technology to prevent your coins from toning.&nbsp; They also have some drawbacks.&nbsp; You cannot customize their albums, at least not yet.&nbsp; You cannot update the album by adding more pages because the pages are glued in and they don&#039;t offer update pages.&nbsp; They are great for sets that will never change such as franklin halfs, walkers, barbers, indian heads, merc dimes, buffalo nickels, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are putting a set together that is still being made, which to be honest not many us coins are going to be around within the next 2 - 3 years.&nbsp; The Quarter program has been announced and will end in a couple of years, Nickels have already changed, Lincoln cents will change in a few years, the sackie golden dollar will change or be discontinued by 2010.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t heard anything about the rosie dime or the kennedy half yet.&nbsp; Then you should go with either a Dansco album or a Whitman Classic album.&nbsp; Both of them are customizable so you can add updated pages in.&nbsp; Whitman also sells blank pages and rub on decals so you can update the albums yourself without having to wait for an update.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whitman and Dansco have a program where you can buy an empty coin album and pick and match the pages you want to put in.&nbsp; Even though Lincoln Cents are still being made, I still would go with the Intercept Shield folder because it&#039;s the only one that goes from 1909-2007.&nbsp; The rest of the albums made for Lincolns are in 2 parts so you have to buy more than 1 album for the whole series.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the bulk of your collection, I would get 2x2 boxes for the coins you dont need/want displayed.&nbsp; You can get a cheap cardboard 2x2 box for about $2 and they typically hold about 100 coins each.&nbsp; You can always get a better 2x2 box.&nbsp; Whitman sells plastic 2x2 boxes which are much nicer than the plain cardboard ones.&nbsp; Intercept Shield also sells 2x2 cardboard boxes, but they have the anti-corrosion stuff in them like their albums do.</p><p><br /></p><p>For your proofs and highly valuable coins, I would get whitman 2x2 snaplock cases and store them in a plastic whitman 2x2 storage box. Their 2x2 are similar to grading company slabs.&nbsp; I believe they offer the best corrosion protection aside from having sonically sealed slabs.&nbsp; I would store proofs in these because it protects the coin faces from contact abrasion which breaks the lustre in proof coins.&nbsp; They are also quite a bit more durable than coinsafes.&nbsp; You can actually step on these without harming the case or the coin inside.&nbsp; That cant be said for cardboard 2x2s, mylar flips, coin albums and coinsafes.&nbsp; As of yet, there aren&#039;t any album pages made for the whitman plastic 2x2s, but you could probably put them in coinsafe pages; however I have not tried it myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Intercept Shield also sells snaptight 2x2 cases.&nbsp; They are probably the best quality made at this point, but at $3 each they are a tad bit expensive.&nbsp; If you have extremely rare and valuable coins you can put them in these.&nbsp; For &quot;Ultimate Protection&quot; you can put these into the Intercept Shield storage boxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I think the Intercept Shield stuff is a bit over the top besides their albums.&nbsp; For coins worth more than $5,000, then I would go that route.&nbsp; They are also great for storing coins that are highly susceptible to corrosion such as zinc, copper and bronze coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Full red cents are worth quite a bit more than toned ones are.&nbsp; A common year Wheat cent or Indian Head in full red is worth several times more than one which has been toned and has been circulated.&nbsp; For instance, a common year Indian like the 1893 in G condition is only worth $2.&nbsp; In MS67RED it&#039;s worth over $30,000 and going up!&nbsp; Sure it took over 100 years to hit that price, but it has a 3,000,000% markup.&nbsp; It is even worth several times more than a proof in the same grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is because of something called grade rarity.&nbsp; Certain coins at the time may have been extremely common.&nbsp; Therefore hardly anyone saved them.&nbsp; The rest were all circulated; it wasn&#039;t until many years later where people picked up on it&#039;s rarity.&nbsp; This is especially true for the 1914-d cent.&nbsp; There were more 1914-d minted than 1909-SVDB, but it wasn&#039;t considered to be rare until later when collectors were tring to find them.&nbsp; This is why the 1914-d is actually worth more than a 1909-SVDB in higher grades because there are actually much less high grade 1914-d cents than there are high grade 1909-SVDB because the SVDB was hoarded and saved when they came out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1909 Wheat cent was hoarded as well as the 1909 Indian which is why they are worth less than most other dates in the teens.&nbsp; So many were saved as a matter of fact, that you are about 10x more likely to find a 1909 in circulation than you are to find a 1910-1915.&nbsp; I have actually pulled a 1909 plain VG-F out of circulation within the last month.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have some coins which are in perfect condition now, but really aren&#039;t worth anything, it may be worth your time and money to store them away and keep them in perfect condition.&nbsp; Coins make a nice family heirloom, besides they will never be worth less than face value, even if they are obsoleted by some other kind of money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in