PRESIDENT COIN COMPANY ALBUMS

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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 33, August 14, 2022, Article 12

Researcher and author Dave Lange submitted these notes and images about coin albums of the President Coin Company (not to be confused with Joe Levine's later Presidential Coin and Antique Company). Thank you! -Editor

Pete Smith's piece on Burton Hobson made mention of his being the sales manager for President Coin Company in 1961. This immediately rang a bell, as that company produced a line of coin albums bearing a 1961 copyright date. There was a volume for each denomination, but these did not list dates and mints at the openings, as was the custom for most lines. Instead, the albums were more like stock books, with a pair of horizontal lines under each opening for the user to write the "Date" and "Value" of his coins. The page backings were of clear cellophane, permitting the user to see both sides of each coin, and the albums were comb bound to lie flat when open. Also included in this line was the President "GIANT" album, which assembled all of the various pages of the individual albums under one cover.

Another entry was the President "SCOUT" album, which did have labels at the opening for each type of 20th Century USA coin, excluding gold. The name SCOUT may have been a reference to the requirement of Boy Scouts that they complete a 20th Century type set to earn their merit badge for coin collecting. This requirement was enacted in the early 1950s, at which time Whitman introduced its 20th Century coin folder for just this purpose.

Like the Whitman entry, the SCOUT type folder also includes openings for the user to collect a set of coins of his birth year, which was also a requirement for the coin collecting merit badge. Interestingly, however, the President line's album has openings for all five denominations from each mint, which the Whitman does not and which the Boy Scouts didn't require.

My collection of these albums is complete with one big exception. I've seen images of a President book titled Coins of Mexico. While not a coin album, its similar graphics and comb binding make it a natural tie-in item that I'd like to have.

I'm including several scans of my own President albums, as well as a poor photo found online of the Mexican book.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BURTON HAROLD HOBSON (https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/esylum_v25n32a21.html)