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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 11768, member: 112&quot;]Of course it is OK. It&#039;s OK for you to store your coins in any manner you choose. I should have explained a bit more.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all - the vast majority of collectors get their coins from circulation. And placing an average circulated coin into an album is not going to harm it. </p><p><br /></p><p>But there are circulated coins - even heavily circulated coins - that I would not suggest you place in an album. Say you have a Fine &#039;16-D Mercury dime - that coin is worth serious bucks. Placing a coin like that into an album could very well create a new mark or scratch that would lessen the value. The same is true for many coins that have substantial value even in low grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I would never suggest a collector do though is to place UNC or Proof coins into an album. By doing so the coin will be marked and its value lessened. This is all but inevitable. There is another danger with placing coins into albums. Most albums have plastic slides to cover and protect the coins. But these slides often end up doing more damage than good. For if the coin is not positioned exactly so - every time the slide is moved back and forth - it can and will scratch the coins under it. This only cause even further damage and lessens the value even more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even so - many collectors don&#039;t care if the coin receives a few more hairlines or that the luster is broken by placing it into an album. Albums are what they like - and their coins go into them. Period. This is their privilege for the coins belong to them and nobody has the right to tell anybody else how to collect or store their coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My suggestion is this - if a coin has a value that is meaningful to you - don&#039;t put it in an album. Buy yourself some coin holders, handle the coin with care and in the years to come you will be glad you did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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