The store
83 products, each a manufacturer's own model code. Not sure what fits your coin?
Albums & Folders
44Where a set lives while you build it. The choice that decides whether your coins tone evenly or acquire a permanent slide mark.
Holders & Flips
21Capsules, 2x2s, and the single most consequential material decision a collector makes: what plastic touches the coin.
Tubes, Boxes & Storage
4Bulk, slabs, and the environment around them: humidity, sulfur and the slow chemistry that acts over years.
Optics & Measurement
5Loupes, scopes, scales and calipers. The tools that turn 'looks right' into a measurement.
Handling & Safety
2Gloves, trays and pads — the cheap items that decide whether a coin survives being handled.
The Reference Shelf
7Buy the book before the coin. The hobby's oldest advice, and still the best return on any dollar spent here.
Choosing
Three decisions worth thinking about
Saflip or a cardboard 2x2?
The cheap option carries a hazard the expensive one does not.
inert
Choose for anything you care about
- +Inert polyester throughout — no staple, no board, nothing to migrate
- +Coin is visible on both sides without opening anything
- +Reusable indefinitely; no tool needed to get the coin out
- −Costs several times a cardboard 2x2
- −Will not take a staple or a written attribution
inert
Choose for bulk, sorting and anything you will annotate
- +Cheap enough to use by the hundred
- +Writable — the attribution lives with the coin
- +Mylar window is itself inert
- −Steel staple: a proud leg scratches the coin below it in the box
- −The classic injury is prying one open with the coin still inside — cut them
- −Board is low-sulfur by specification, not by nature; buy coin-grade only
Direct-fit capsule or ring type?
Both are inert and both seal. The difference is tolerance — and for coinage struck on an open collar, tolerance is the question.
inert
Choose for modern coinage of a known, fixed diameter
- +Cut to one exact size — no gap, nothing to rattle
- +Slimmest profile; most capsules per box
- +Fewer parts to lose
- −Unforgiving: 0.3 mm out and the coin either will not seat or moves
- −No shell is cut for every size — several US types have none
inert
Choose for early coinage, and whenever you have not measured
- +The foam ring absorbs the variation an open collar produces
- +One shell covers a range of diameters
- +The only sane choice for a coin whose diameter was never fixed by statute
- −Bulkier
- −Ring size is a second thing to get right
- −Rings are made in whole millimetres
Album or capsules?
Display against isolation. An album shows the set; capsules protect the coins.
dansco-7070
Choose if the set is the point
- +The whole run visible at once — this is what makes collecting fun
- +Openings are a free education in what a type set contains
- +Ports are cut to the coin, so the album is itself a fitment reference
- −Slide covers are the commonest source of hairlines on an otherwise clean coin
- −One coin per opening — no room for duplicates or varieties
- −A half-filled album is how collections end up in a drawer
inert
Choose if the coins are the point
- +Sealed and inert — nothing touches the surface, ever
- +No slide, so no slide marks
- +Reorder, add, and hold the coin up to a light without unseating anything
- −A box of capsules is not a display
- −Costs more per coin across a long series
- −You lose the gap — the empty hole that tells you what you still need
Start here
Three benches
Three assemblies with a stated purpose. Pick your coin and the total assembles from live asking prices.
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