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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 1792884, member: 16729&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414"> </span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">What to do next has been on my mind lately, too.&nbsp; </span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">Are you into world coins?&nbsp; </span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">I am, and I also like filling out Dansco albums.</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">So, I&#039;m thinking about this:&nbsp; Going after low-mintage (5,000 pieces minted or less), silver-proof world commemoratives (a lot of African, Asian, South American countries, some Europe).&nbsp; They go for incredibly low prices at auction or at coins shows, despite their rarity.&nbsp; There are silver proofs that only have a mintage of 500(!) that sell for less than 200 bucks.&nbsp; Sometimes a lot less.&nbsp; If you get 44mm blank dansco pages, you can put up to 36mm-diameter silver proofs in H-size airtites, and then place them in the pages.&nbsp; These can be bound in a Dansco World Coin Library Album (blank album).&nbsp; You&#039;ll have to double the pages to accommodate the airtites.&nbsp; I double mine with two-sided tape.&nbsp; It means you have to buy two pages to do the work of one without airtites, though.&nbsp; </span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #141414">Some may not like that these silver proofs were largely NOT made by the issuing countries, but by private mints, such as Italcambio, which made a good deal of these in the 1960s and 1970s.</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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