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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Randy Abercrombie, post: 4636310, member: 92655&quot;]Well..... This is entirely a personal perspective..... Filling Whitman books is fun and rewarding. If you are filling books with average quality coins that won&#039;t break the bank, I see no harm in it at all. I still have cents, nickels, Roosevelt dimes and state quarters in Whitman books....... Secondly, understand that the Mercury dime book that I had problems with was started in the 1960&#039;s. I filled the last holes in that book in the early 2000&#039;s. That was when I began noticing the black toning. It was quite literally a forty year process.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think all new numismatists should complete a few Whitman catalogs. It&#039;s a rite of passage, but more importantly you learn a great deal about collecting while you go through the process. So I am an advocate of filling Whitman catalogs. By the time you start collecting more expensive coins then you will also be more well versed in coin preservation as well. So don&#039;t think this is an overnight phenomenon. It isn&#039;t. By all means, fill some Whitman&#039;s. I don&#039;t know of a better way to learn coin collecting. If you have some pricey specimen&#039;s then relegate them to 2X2&#039;s or something similar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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