What I remember had clear sleeves across the whole page with an inner sleeve with pockets for each coin. It also had a paper strip at the bottom where you would fill in the date. There wasn't any place that the coin could touch the material the album was made of and then possibly get some toning. With this, it looks like the rims could touch the material (cardboard or ..?) of the page. It might not matter for circulated coins as much, but I have I have some that are uncirculated. Or, is the material the album made of safe to use?
The quality overall of my collection doesn't justify getting everything graded and slabbed. I have all of them in the regular 2-inch coin holders and I could get a couple of the 20-pocket plastic pages, but I am nostalgic and would like to find something similar to the style of the whitman albums that I grew up with. I guess the 20-pocket pages would be the next best thing.
