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Message:: [QUOTE="tommyc03, post: 2437300, member: 17665"]I'm willing to bet that if you wrote a letter to Dave Harper at Numismatic News he could probably give a more definitive answer to this question. But to the best of my knowledge, all publishers did not include any proof coins in their folders or albums as they were solely intended to be for business strikes only. Reason being that proof coins were not as widely collected in the early years and were a special order item from the Mint. Only later, when proof coins became more widely collected, were albums having slots for these. If you look on Wizard Coin Supply you will see that there are variations for collectors for the major publishers who offer both regular albums and albums that include the proof coins from a certain date forward. I doubt that most who can afford the earliest proofs would want them in an album anyways due to their price to buy and a chance they would be damaged by environmental exposure, etc. This is the same for coins like the 1922 Lincoln, the 1955 Doubled Die Lincoln and the 1972 Doubled Die Lincoln. They were all included in early albums but were errors/varieties. Only after a lot of feedback from collectors, did they do away with these slots as they were not "normal" business strikes.[/QUOTE]