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<p>[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 1282557, member: 16729"]The album is a just a generic 1 and 1/4-inch Dansco "World Coin Library Album". The lettering on the spine I did myself with a "brush"-type font stencil and bright gold acrylic paint. The front cover was done for me by a local company called "Litho Tech Custom Cover" in Bloomington, Minnesota, using the same "brush"-style font. This company did all my other album covers that you can see on Youtube, too. If you watch the video all the way to the end, you can see the name and address of the Album manufacturer on the inside back cover. If you've been around coins long enough, you've probably heard of Dansco.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pages are DOUBLE Dancso 37mm pages that I taped together using double-sided tape, so that they could accomodate the "T-size" Airtites that encapsulate the coins that I place in the holes. The last page is a double 32mm page, because the airtites on that page were the "A-size" (because of the new, smaller 10 Won coins). The labeling on the pages was done with Avery clear stick-on labels that I ran off my printer using "Copperplate" font. They're not totally transparent, but it's the best I could do.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the 1988 Olympic coins, The Bank of Korea and the minting authority in Korea, KOMSCO, were not very happy about how those turned out: They made WAY, WAY too many sets of them, and in too many varieties of each coin; so much so, that the Bank of Korea had to BUY them back from distributors when they found out that not everybody and his sister on the face of the earth wanted to buy a set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the interest!</p><p><br /></p><p>I still wanna see someone's Koreans coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mlov43, post: 1282557, member: 16729"]The album is a just a generic 1 and 1/4-inch Dansco "World Coin Library Album". The lettering on the spine I did myself with a "brush"-type font stencil and bright gold acrylic paint. The front cover was done for me by a local company called "Litho Tech Custom Cover" in Bloomington, Minnesota, using the same "brush"-style font. This company did all my other album covers that you can see on Youtube, too. If you watch the video all the way to the end, you can see the name and address of the Album manufacturer on the inside back cover. If you've been around coins long enough, you've probably heard of Dansco. The pages are DOUBLE Dancso 37mm pages that I taped together using double-sided tape, so that they could accomodate the "T-size" Airtites that encapsulate the coins that I place in the holes. The last page is a double 32mm page, because the airtites on that page were the "A-size" (because of the new, smaller 10 Won coins). The labeling on the pages was done with Avery clear stick-on labels that I ran off my printer using "Copperplate" font. They're not totally transparent, but it's the best I could do. As far as the 1988 Olympic coins, The Bank of Korea and the minting authority in Korea, KOMSCO, were not very happy about how those turned out: They made WAY, WAY too many sets of them, and in too many varieties of each coin; so much so, that the Bank of Korea had to BUY them back from distributors when they found out that not everybody and his sister on the face of the earth wanted to buy a set. Thanks for the interest! I still wanna see someone's Koreans coins![/QUOTE]
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