Dansco Albumns and Slip Case

Question are Dansco albumns and slip cases any good? How good are the slip cases againts toning? What if a coin is toned will it continue to tone in an albumn with a slip case?

 

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I have found that all of the brands have some toning associated with them.

 

what do you suggest than, if I still want to display my collection?

 

thanks for the advice. an intercept shield album is around $33. I'll sale dansco on ebay. who makes an album that holds air tights? Also what is your recommendation on proper storage of the album? Seal in air tight plastic bag?

 

Tater:
Best advice; keep them at GDJMSP's house.
He will care for them for you.

 

A less expensive alternative is to learn to love toning. Embrace the horror.

 

:mouth: Great reply Cloud. LOL...

 

Don't get me wrong I can be a fan of the tone. I really would like a nice rainbow toned peace dollar, but hard to find and mucho dinero. It's just that I have a nice, well I think beautiful, almost complete set of white lusterous ms-62 to ms -65 peace dollars. They are my babies and I don't want them to get hurt if you know what I mean.

 

By the way how are some of the major toned coin dealers on ebay? They have some slabbed stuff, but I'm not so sure some of it hasn't been doctored AT.

 

If you want to keep them pristine, then Intercept or air-tites. There are actually several ways to store airtights and different types of them. Just type air-tite on a google prompt or just type it here on the Search link in CoinTalk. You'll get plenty of hits.

Those solutions are a bit (but not that much) more than Dansco, but heck, total cost is probably what you might have paid for ONE of those Peace Dollars. So bullet-biting time??

 

Avoid peacock coins, if its not slabbed, its AT, at least thier stuff is.

 

Heres some horrible examples of what to stay away from when buying coins on Ebay. All obviously artificially toned and very ugly.

 

Well I'm new to coin talk so I didn't know if it was proper to call some onw out onto the carpet by name, but Peacock is one that I question. Even some of the slabbed coins look AT. Are the tone doctors that good? Really who can really get that many wild natural toned coins in one place to sale.:hatch:

 

Now, tellme, Why would a John Adams dollar coin be toned so soon after its introduction if it wasn't artificially treated?

Bruce

 

I put all my coins in Whitman Classic Albums. Each one is then put into a zip lock freezer type bag with as much air as possible pushed out. Prior to zip lock bags I used just big or large plastic bags. I've been doing this for well into the 50 or so years that I can remember. Not exactly sure when I started the plastic bag stuff though but it was a long, long time ago. So far coins from when I started collecting in 1943 to present have not toned, corroded, stained, etc at all. Many, many of them look just the way they were when I first put them into an album. Possibly in the next few hundred years they may start to tone and if so I'll let you know. Other than that I would suggest regardless of how you store your coins just find a way to avoid long exposures to the air.