I have been wanting to do one of these for years but never got around to starting one. I really eventually want to do the Dansco 7210 and 7211 albums for these but those albums are expensive and hard to find. I found a old beat up Whitman bookshelf album (my first bookshelf album) and it was cheap so I thought great as I don't have much to start with and it goes through basically the late 50's and Elizabeth II. As you can see its mostly small coinage right now like large cents, small cents, nickels and dimes. I don't have any halves or dollars yet (I have a loonie but this set stops long before the loonie came out). I just don't have a good market for Canadian coinage in the US going to have to resort to eBay a lot.
I have the very same Whitman Album (with lots of hole to fill as well). I have had pretty good luck with some small lot buys on e-bay for Canadian coinage, mostly I have just filled hole in the album as I have encountered coins through the years.
Good start. I like the Whitman albums. We had them as kids, so they're nostalgic. Every time I go to a show and see a stack of them, I'm always tempted to get a few.
For Canada silver, try a bullion dealer who will sell you a $50-100 face lot at a percentage over spot (in person, not by mail). Bullion dealers HATE Canadian silver; it sells at a sizeable discount (as it should) to US denominations, so walk-in sellers automatically think the dealer's a crook, and virtually no one collects the 1920s through the 1960s by date anymore, plus it never accumulates in sufficient quantities to make a bag, or even a roll. After the first purchase, you'll know if the good coins have been pulled. A lot of bullion dealers don't have time, even for US, and especially for Canadian, which accounts for the discovery of occasional 19th Century coins. You sell the excess on eBay, buy-it-now, or on CT, and ship in the small flat-rate priority boxes, under $6 (plus insurance) for a box that will hold 10+ rolls.
That's a great idea. I want to do the same someday. One time I had one of those older album, I'm pretty sure it was Whitman, and it damaged most coins in it. The staples on the album were rusted but the album wasn't used. After a few weeks I noticed this nasty green corrosion was forming on the coins, especially the copper nickel coins in the US type set. Just wanted to mention that
No album is inert, but you can minimize the damage by storing it in a dry room, preferably air-conditioned in the summer, and put it in a box with silica gel packs. Albums are fun, but I wouldn't use them to store any high-end coins.
That's awesome!! ... man, I love those sweet ol' retro Whitman albums (my safe is stuffed full of 'em!!) => they're classics!! (good luck filling that baby ... in reality, Canadian coins are relatively inexpensive, so I'm sure that you'll plow quickly through it, if you're actually driven to complete the set) ... => again "good luck" ... old Canadian and Newfie coins are definitely gonna be your best bang for the buck!! (that's my two cents anyway) ... oh, and I've had coins in them since I was in elementary school (45 years ago, and they're all still lookin' fine ... ummm, or extra fine?)
Yea eventually when it's full I'll look for the danscos to replace it with. Just figured it was a good place to start.
Yeah it's probably safe. I think I had a fluke or something. I think the guy stored them new a long time ago in a humid place. As for the new danscos, aren't the inside parts made of cloth? I thought I read that before. I'm sure the older ones weren't though. In any case, I think you got a mighty fine set going. You got my interest going too
Everything is stored in my office, smoke free, non humid ACed house. I have rarely seen coins tone in any of he dansco's I have. I have a few toned coins in my 7070 and I always wrack my brain to try and remember if they were toned before I bought them or if the Dansco did it to them. They are some of my oldest coins in my 7070 going back nearly a decade.
??? ... a "decade" ... that's not a very long time period (but I guess it all depends how old you are ... if you're only ten years old, then it's a lifetime)
It's the longest period for coins I own I only started collecting around 15 years ago. The majority of my collection has been sold twice for different reasons but i kept the 7070 album and the more inexpensive coins. Like one of the toned coins is an Ike dollar.
