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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3153230, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s easier to just answer your question. </p><p><br /></p><p>Albums are bad for several reasons. You can start with this question, what is the first rule of coin collecting ? Answer, never touch the surface of a coin. Now ask yourself how you get a coin into an album. </p><p><br /></p><p>Next, cardboard dust. All albums produce it and it can and will scratch coins, it can and will cause spots on coins. Next, just about all paper products are produced with sulfur and sulfur is bad for coins. It can cause very ugly toning, but sometimes pretty toning too. Thing is, you never know which one you&#039;re gonna get until you already have it ! And, if toning is allowed to progress unchecked as it often is with coins in albums, it can and will destroy the coin. And don&#039;t forget, as the albums are putting of those sulfurous gasses, even the coins not in the albums will be affected as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you have the slide issues, album slides scratch coins. They can do this by the plastic itself scratching them, or by the slide moving particles of cardboard dust across the coin when the slide is moved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, cardboard attracts and holds moisture, and right next to your coins - the last place you want it. </p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s the glues used in making albums, those are bad for coins too for the same reasons that the cardboard is - they put off harmful gasses. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now if I sit here and think long enough I can probably come up with a few more issues. But any single one those I already mentioned should be enough all by itself to explain why collectors should not use coin albums.</p><p><br /></p><p>And before you ask, if we don&#039;t use albums what should we do ? Simply do a search using the words - proper storage - and my user name and you&#039;ll find more threads than you care to read. But here&#039;s one to get ya started - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-albums-holders-damaging-quality.314189/page-2#post-3046107" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-albums-holders-damaging-quality.314189/page-2#post-3046107">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-albums-holders-damaging-quality.314189/page-2#post-3046107</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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