All of my Chinese silver panda coins are double packed except for the last six coins which are just packed in airtite holders.If I put them in a album I need to take them out of there protective cases and plastic that has the mint painted on them.I am just worried about down the road when the question comes up that these coins a counterfeit.but I figure in the next couble of years that should be fixed (I Hope)but when my coins are in the album they look 100% better then in there plastic holders.thanks for the help Randy........
I don't know if it is still true, but back in the late 1980's when I worked as a dealer the panda's were worth SIGNIFICANTLY less if they had been removed from the original sealed government PVC plastic flips.
Unfortunately those coins are heavily counterfeited so no matter what you do other than having them slabbed IMO will stop any question on authenticity. Even the high mintage coins have been counterfeited.
I just orderd my 09 pandas, and the 30th anniv pandas ... hope they are the real things lol to answer your question though ... if 'YOU' want to put your coins in the album, then do it! Pandas are so heavily faked, that even in the double plastic wrapper, they could still be fake. If you like the way an album full of pandas looks, and it brings you more enjoyment to view them thatway, then dont worry about what price you 'might' miss out on years down the road. It sounds to me like you are a collector who hopes he collection will gain in value as opposed to an investor who prays his investment will. I would display your beautifull coins in whatever manner brings you the most joy
I have a collection of the 1989 - 2012 1 oz. Silver Pandas in a Dansco Album. Standard 40 mm 9 coin pages (just like the American Silver Eagle). Then I recently found out that they have multiple variations of the same coin (i.e. Large and Small dates or in the case of the 1995 version, there's one with the panda holding a 3 leaf bamboo). If you have 2 or more of each coin, I say put one set in an album; although you have the issue of dealing labels...
Pandas are extremely hard to resell. When I sold my gold last year (yeah, timed it perfectly, lol--although I did sell it for 900 dollars higher than most of it was bought), no dealers wanted to touch Pandas. Without original packing, it is virtually impossible to get rid of them--the reason for this is that there are tons of very good counterfeit ones, both Gold and Silver floating around, and they are hard to authenticate visually, unless TPG slabbed.
