Customer Reviews

Kennedy Half Dollars Folder 1986-2003 (Official Whitman Coin Folder)

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The collector's book has holes the size of the coins cut out, with labels under every hole with the specific year, mint, and sometimes other information about the coin for the hole. I have found it very hard to keep a collection of circulating coins without whitman portfolios.

I took off a star because of two flaws in its design. Most importantly, the backing is very thin, and clearly shows every coin you've pressed into the other side. Also, the coins stay in place by pressing the surrounding posterboard outwards. That means that the force used to put the coin into the book is far more than the force holding it in, and it cane sometimes be a struggle to get a coin to fit.

I had these as a kid and now my kids are having fun with them. I found some locally (At the store that rhymes with Slobby Globby) but when it came to rounding out our collection I needed specific coin folders and ordering them was easy.
I'll dump all the change from my purse on the table - sometimes I pick up half dollars or a roll of dimes etc from the bank, too - and have the kids sort it. First we sort it into denominations, then put them in chronological order and then we bust out the books to see if we have any coins that we need. The grandparents now arrive with baggies of saved coins for the kids to paw through.
We keep our books rubber banded by denomination on a high shelf on a bookcase (yep, I learned as a kid how easy it was to pop out the coins when you "need" them. Sorry, dad for removing all my quarters in 7th grade!)

Flimsy. Coins almost impossible to insert into the holes. No cover
over front of coins. Cannot see backs of coins. Find another
option for your coins. I gave it one star, but that is too
generous.