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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;marid3, post: 1422400, member: 35968&quot;]I have a lot of Dansco&#039;s, some Littletons, some Intercept and some Whitmans.&nbsp; Honestly the point of an album in my opinion is to display the coins, and that depends on the slide.&nbsp; The older Dansco albums had sturdier slides, but the new ones scratch easily (if the slide is scratched, it looks like the coin is, defeating the whole purpose of the album).&nbsp; In addition, I&#039;ve gotten lots of &#039;dust&#039; or &#039;hair&#039; off the new Dansco&#039;s too. My favorite is Whitman - sturdy slides, no hair, and thumb notches so you can pull the slide out w/o touching part of the plastic (and scratching/smudging it).&nbsp; </p><p>I did a lot of research on these, and it seems all 4 modern albums are made of &#039;archival safe&#039; materials, so you should be good there (versus older ones).&nbsp; </p><p>Beware of the scratching from the slides especially on high-grade coins - wait to put the coins in for a whole &#039;slide&#039; all at once, so you only have to touch that slide, and therefore don&#039;t have potential scratching of the coins.</p><p>I like my albums a lot, but only use albums for modern and circulation sets.&nbsp; Ancient, key-date, high-value, super-high grade (for the issue) I don&#039;t put in albums because of some potential problems. </p><p>To &#039;give back&#039; to the coin community, I posted a rather lengthy review of all the albums.&nbsp; If youre interested, I&#039;ll send you the link.&nbsp; Regardless of album choice, my suggestion (for what it&#039;s worth) is just carefully, and only once, use the slides.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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