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<p>[QUOTE="littlehugger, post: 2098155, member: 58633"]Yeah, the urge to "upgrade" is almost irresistible with a Type Set.</p><p>I started long ago on one, in a Dansco 7070. My young sons got hold of it and messed it up. I bought another album, used. Same thing.</p><p> I was able to take early retirement a couple years ago, and my 3 wild boys are older and much more responsible, so I got back into it. I bought an unopened new 7070 off of Ebay.</p><p> It amazes me that Dansco has ignored this need for years now, and same with the other album makers. U<u>sed </u>Dansco 7070 albums sell for a premium on EBay and elsewhere, and reintroducing it would also allow them to update for newer varieties of Sacawagea, Presidential, National Parks, etc. The blindness is mystifying.</p><p> I sometimes dream of winning the lotto and putting some ultimate set together, but my set, as it is, is very satisfying, as you can take each coin in hand to get the sense of it, and the tremendous variety is far more interesting than an album full of the same look-alike coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="littlehugger, post: 2098155, member: 58633"]Yeah, the urge to "upgrade" is almost irresistible with a Type Set. I started long ago on one, in a Dansco 7070. My young sons got hold of it and messed it up. I bought another album, used. Same thing. I was able to take early retirement a couple years ago, and my 3 wild boys are older and much more responsible, so I got back into it. I bought an unopened new 7070 off of Ebay. It amazes me that Dansco has ignored this need for years now, and same with the other album makers. U[U]sed [/U]Dansco 7070 albums sell for a premium on EBay and elsewhere, and reintroducing it would also allow them to update for newer varieties of Sacawagea, Presidential, National Parks, etc. The blindness is mystifying. I sometimes dream of winning the lotto and putting some ultimate set together, but my set, as it is, is very satisfying, as you can take each coin in hand to get the sense of it, and the tremendous variety is far more interesting than an album full of the same look-alike coins.[/QUOTE]
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