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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1488488, member: 16729&quot;]<b>Korea, Jordan, Iraq</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice question!&nbsp; I&#039;m interested in foreign coin albums because I wanted to make a collection of every year of South Korea&#039;s six circulation coins.&nbsp; I found out that I had to MAKE them!&nbsp; There ARE Korean coin albums that are made in Korea, but I didn&#039;t like how they presented the coins: It looked like the coins were in direct-fit airtites placed in a board (similar to an FAO board, maybe?).&nbsp; I wanted my coins in ALBUMS, so I made them myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>What used was Dansco Co. &quot;World Coin Library&quot; blank albums (that come in various spine-widths), and used Dansco&#039;s blank &quot;millimeter pages&quot; to put my Korean coins in.&nbsp; I have my coins encapsulated in Airtites with black rings, so I have to use double-sided tape to tape together two pages to accommodate the Airtites.&nbsp; I used 32mm pages for the A-size Airtites, 37mm pages for the T-size, and 44mm pages for the H-size airtites.&nbsp; I had a local lithographic company label the front covers with a &quot;brush&quot;-style font to approximate the kind of lettering that Dansco uses on its &quot;prepared&quot; albums.&nbsp; I had to hand-letter (use bright gold acrylic paint) on the spine of my albums by using a stencil, because the litho company couldn&#039;t do the spines of my albums.&nbsp; It look a long time to get them all done, but the results were acceptable (to me).&nbsp; You can see my albums at youtube if you search &quot;Korean Coins&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also seen albums for Jordan, Iraqi and Syrian coins at a local coin shop.&nbsp; Valley Coin in Crystal, Minnesota sells these at this page on their website:</p><p><a href="http://www.valleycoin.com/index.php?cPath=9_409_1247" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.valleycoin.com/index.php?cPath=9_409_1247" rel="nofollow">http://www.valleycoin.com/index.php?cPath=9_409_1247</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if anybody else has seen these?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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