I am going to buy a type set album. Which one should I buy Dansco 7070 album or Intercept Shield type set album http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/intercept-shield-album-united-states-type.html Opinions about either one of them are greatly welcome.
Absolutely the Dansco Album. There are several reasons. 1. I feel they are the nicest looking Albums of almost any album and look like an expensive book on a shelf. 2. If you ever go to sell your collection a Dansco Album is more popular and you could tag on a few more dollars for the Album. 3. Since they are so widely used you would feel better showing off such an Album. 4. Many coins stand out better with against the color of the Dansco Albums. 5. If you change your mine and decide not to make such an Album, the Dansco is easy to sell.
Just remember, if you buy an album you are collecting by THEIR definition of a typeset. I'd have to look at one to compare to MY definition. Obviously I don't use an album for my typeset. All my coins are slabbed. ~~~~~~~~~ I just took a quick look at the Dansco album. I noticed there was only one spot for a 3-cent silver coin. But there are three 3-cent silver varieties. That means the album doesn't fit my definition of a typeset. So you'll have to decide what your definition is, and then find an appropriate storage system.
I like the dansco look myself, that is what all my albums all, except for my gold type set, which is a whitman, because I feel that the gold pops better against the blue.
Excellent point. Another issue - the really older coins have some variance to their diameter. Basically, anything struck before collars. They won't always fit in the standard holes.
I have a Dansco 7070 - but I like the looks of the Intercept album. I like the fact that the intercept has holes for the westward journey nickels, the 2009 Lincolns, and the presidential $. I have an intercept for my "A" Lincoln collection and a Dansco for my "B" Lincoln collection. Both look good, and store the coins well, but the lighter pages of the Dansco album may look better to some. The Intercept comes with the slipcover which is nice. P.S. This is my 100th post !!!!!:hail:
Taurus, Dansco seems to be the default favorite, and they do look good, but I have not been happy with how Dansco holds up with a lot of use. The vinyl pulls away from the cardboard, the plastic cover slides cut into the glued section and eventually the coins start falling out. Its Ok if you fill it, put it away and rarely browse it. Type sets especially get a lot of use, because most of the coins cannot be found in circulation, and must be painstakingly acquired, one-by-one. Although its extremely expensive to obtain them in uncirculated, so little harm is done if they fall out, or get handled a lot. I wish someone would come out with clear hard plastic, that held a coin in one of those coin capsules, so you could see the whole coin, pages would not come apart or be damaged by moisture, and you could remove individual coins without actually touching them. But that makes too much sense.
Jester, I was in a hurry to pick up my kids and could not remember the word, but you are correct, kointains. Probably others like it by other names. Someone should make an album, out of hard plastic pages, to hold coins in kointains. It would look great, be only slightly larger than current cardboard based albums, and allow safe, easy transfer and handling. No vinyl veneers to delaminate either. You can buy albums that hold slabs, but its not as cool looking, and I prefer raw coins, in an album, as its a handsome display format, and I want my kids to handle them, grow curious. So I rarely buy high grade slabbed stuff. I am new, and was looking for a Type Set album, and found this site. I wonder what Taurus chose, and why, and how her set is coming along? rr
The only issue I've had with my intercept shield is the holes aren't perfectly cut for the coin. I think Dansco does a better job of cutting hole sizes. Overall, I agree with littlehugger. With all the technological advances since the advent of the Dansco, one would think there would be an equal leap in coin album construction/display as well.
Jnp, I agree, but I happen to have an old Dansco Type Set album. I like the more complete sets, especially the newer coins, as you can get many in high grade for face value. So far as Kanga, and 900 fine. Albums are not folders. Folders are cheap, and fun for kids. Albums can and do protect valuable coins, although when you are pursuing a typeset, high grade slabbed coins of many are extremely expensive. Nor do slabs lend themselves to display well, and somehow, slabbed coins lose their cachet that a raw coin has to the eye and in your hand, I also want to interest my kids, so rarely touch the expensive, investment grade stuff. Have to lock that away from them! But a large cent in XF 45 would suffer little to none from minor handling.
As I've said in the past type sets are great to put together. Why? Because collectors can decide their own definition of what goes into one. I decided that the NGC Registry Set "definition" was going to be my model. Their set has guided my purchases from the first time I decided to pursue a type set. With 9 coins to go until completion (five of which I don't think I'll even get) my 1793-1964 NGC Cu/Ni/Ag type set is close to completion and ranked 12th last I looked. My 1834-1933 NGC gold type set is complete and ranked 28th.
Kanga, I like that idea, and would love to put together a comprehensive, high grade type set. But, its very expensive, and time consuming, and with kids, not really wise or logical. When they were very small tads, they tore up my Dansco album Type Set, and I like the idea of being able to handle the coins, for them, and I tend that way too. It generates more interest than seriously high grade, Smithsonian quality stuff, but I am jealous. Will you remember me in your will? Hehe! My sons do recognize that the coins are valuable. And Type Sets cover the whole gamut of collecting. It interests me, and keeps me involved. My basic motivation is to put together a quality type set, that contains quality coins, but that is mostly XF-AU so my boys can occasionally handle them without destroying their value, and enjoy them on their simple level, yet still be a valuable inheritance. I want to interest them, not have a heart attack every time they get near it, hehe! Of course, with a type set, you can still get high quality examples of common or current date stuff, inexpensively, that enhances the set, without breaking the bank.
You just described a Dansco album I bought at a local show last year. Thought I got a great deal until I got home and thing started to fall apart when I tried to put coins in it. No telling how old it was, for sure not new.
