20th Century Type Coins: Official Whitman Coin Folder

My 12 year old grandson started a coin collection. He has a little bit of a lot of things. Mostly he was just buying things that he liked. Nothing wrong with that but I got this for him so he'd have a collecting goal, i.e., he could search for what he was missing rather than spend his money on what was pretty.So far, so good. What I like most about this is that you for each type you have a range of dates - you're not looking for a specific year, just a coin type. The only specific years are for your birth year.The folder is well made, the coins fit in perfectly and don't fall out.My only surprise was the price - I would have paid more.

I bought this not completey knowing what to expect. I love it! This has holes for one of each coin minted in the 1900's:Indian Head Cent, Wheat Penny, 1943 Steel Penny, Lincoln Memorial, V-Nickel, Buffalo Nickel, Silver Jeffersonn Nickel, Clad Jefferson Nickel, Barber Dime, Mercury Dime, Silver Roosevelt Dime, Clad Roosevelt Dime, Barber Quarter, Standing Liberty Quarter, Silver Washington Quarter, Washington Bicentennial Quarter, Clad Washington Quarter, Barber Half Dollar, Standing Liberty Half Dollar, Franklin Half Dollar, Silver Kennedy Half Dollar, 40% Silver Kennedy Half Dollar, Clad Kennedy Half Dollar, Kennedy Bicentennial Half Dollar, Morgan Dollar, Peace Dollar, Eisenhower Dollar, Eisenhower Bicentennial Dollar, SBA Dollar, and holes for coins on your birth year.The neat thing about this is you can focus on collecting the coins to go in the holes and not finding the right dates, because there are NO DATES on this. I think that this is a great folder for a beginner.

This folder holds many of the collectible coins that we can find from time to time, and then many of the coins that we have to wait for, and actively look for, which in my mind, is the perfect combination to grab a new collector's interest. This was a gift for a friend, but my own folder, actually a novice collector's card, came with one of the coins, a silver penny. Ironically, my friend had found one of these pennies, and that was the start of collecting for this folder.

As you've probably read in other reviews, some of the coins were nearly impossible to fit because the holes were just slightly too small. This is a good folder for a budding numismatist, my only complaint other than the hole sizes are that there is a spot for a Sacagawea dollar, which isn't actually a 20th century coin.

My old 20th-century-type coin folder fell apart on me after many years, so I re-bought. Turns out, since I bought my last folder, there have been updates. I'm glad for that since it gives me more to do with my collection now!

Works for my secondary type set, some of the slots are either very tight or very loose depending on the coin. With that being said the coins i'm using are not all pristine so they may have worn just a bit.

great folder, I like this type since this was the type my dad used to get when I was younger. this folder is special because it is of all types, or means to be, I think it is cool to see all different types of coins in one folder, great starter folder or one for excite kids about coin collecting.

Could not be happier

Let me preface this review by saying that I am not an experienced coin collector and had never bought a coin album or folder before. This review may be helpful for people in my shoes but perhaps not for someone with more experience.I was fooled by the Amazon description "Coin Folders Miscellaneous: 20th Century Types" into thinking that this album was designed to hold "miscellaneous" coins of interest. I was thinking of the kind of coins you come across in your pocket change and think, "that's kind of neat". This might include the state series quarters from the USA, or the Canadian quarters commemorating the Vancouver Olympics. Or perhaps an old coin from the 1950s or 1960s that somehow finds it's way into your pocket and has a different image than the current coin.This folder is actually geared towards "specific" coin types. The spots are labelled for these specific types. For example, "Cents - Indian - 1859 to 1909", or "Nickels - Liberty Head - 1883 to 1912". Needless to say, you're not likely to find such coins in your pocket change.I can't see how you would come close to filling this album unless you are an active coin collector who buys collector coins from dealers or other collectors. If you were such a collector, you would probably want a better way of displaying your coins since this album only shows one side of the coin and does not protect it in any way. It's just paperboard with circular cutouts that you push the coins into. There is no plastic cover over the coins.