Create your own Dansco Albums for world coins

Some have seen my Korean Dansco Albums.
Here is an update video of me adding the latest coins to these albums and completely filling four of them. I only have six more years to go, and the holes in all six of these albums will all be filled. Below the video, I'll include instructions for building such an album.



The albums you see in the video are homemade. You have to source the materials yourself and assemble them.

However, the materials should be easy enough to find at online coin supply retailers. I get my Airtite capsules from valleycoin.com.

To assemble these albums:

First, I use I use Airtite plastic capsules with black rings. I use the black rings (Airtites makes white rings, too) because the company's "direct fit" capsules will make the coins rattle, and anyway, there are no direct fit capsules that work with all the South Korean coin diameter sizes.

I place the One-Won, Five-won and the new (2006-present) 10-Won coins into Airtites' "A-Size" capsules. The foam rings need to be slightly smaller than the actual diameter sizes of the coins. For example, the One-Won coin is 17.2mm in diameter, therefore I use 17mm black foam rings for "A-Size" capsules. The 100-Won coin is 24mm, so you need to use 23mm foam rings.

Here are the rings and capsules sizes I use for these albums:
One-Won: 17mm rings in A-Size capsules
Five-Won: 20mm rings in A-Size capsules
10-Won: 22mm rings in T-Size capsules
50-Won: 21mm rings in T-Size capsules
100-Won: 23mm rings in T-Size capsules
500-Won: 26mm "non-standard" rings (available from valleycoin.com) in T-Size capsules

The Dancso coin album pages are two of these pages adhered together (I use Scotch Permanent Double-sided Tape ...make sure the holes for the coins line up perfectly when taping the coin pages together!). I use two pages stuck together so that the Airtite capsules fit into them. I use Dansco coin album-page millimeter sizes 32mm and 37mm. These millimeter-page sizes are the sizes of the coin HOLES in the pages. The A-Size capsules for the One-Won and Five-Won coins fit into the 32mm size Dansco pages. The T-Size capsules fit into the 37mm pages and the commemorative coin pages in my type set use 44mm Dansco coin pages.

I bind the pages (four double-sided pages, maximum) into a 1 and 1/4-inch Dansco World blank binder. I did the lettering on the albums' spines myself with gold acrylic paint and stencils in the "brush" font, and I had the front cover professionally stenciled by Litho Tech Custom Cover in Bloomington, Minnesota. You might want to ask a local lithographer if they have "hot foil stamping" ability, because that's how they do it. The font I used is a cursive font called "brush," which is similar to Dansco's traditional font seen on their albums' front covers and spines.

The lettering beneath each coin on the pages (the dates, KM numbers, etc) was done using matte (not gloss) blank Avery Dennison "Clear Easy Peel Return Address Labels" that I ran off my computer's printer and cut down to size. I know the labels are not completely transparent, but it's the best I could do.

 

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As someone who has spent time reworking dansco albums I appreciate your talent

 

I haven't been up to date on the company, but Dansco IS still making products, right?

 

WOW!! The making of the albums looked absolutely beautiful in every respect. I know nothing about Korean coinage except to appreciate well preserved beautiful coins. I can certainly appreciate those efforts and the coins themselves. Well done, your efforts should make you very proud. I am very impressed.

 

Yes. HOWEVER, they moved out of LA to the 1st town south of the Canadian border in Washington State (Sumas). They have had a lot of problems getting back up to speed (building a factory out of a former grocery store, COVID, a flood, hiring workers, &c).

 

Surprisingly, Dansco now has a webpage!

At their "About Us" page, they give a really nice update as to their current production focus with albums.

They ARE producing products!

 

Good news indeed. I look forward to seeing the new US Type set album.