THE GRANDFATHER OF MODERN DANSCO ALBUMS

 

Ervin J. Felix was a coin and stamp expert who worked as the West Coast distributor for the Coin & Currency Institute (C&CI) in the late 1950s and early '60s. After almost a decade of distributing albums for C&CI, he had heard a lot of feedback from dealers and collectors on what they liked and disliked about the current coin albums in the market.

In 1963 Felix took his insights and left C&CI to create a competing set of albums, the Continental Line series. Since he was in Southern California and Dansco was already based in Los Angeles, he contracted with Dansco to make his albums. Felix posted several advertisements of his albums in a few issues of Coin World.

The Continental Line series only ran for a few years. Still, Felix made significant changes during that time. He switched the binder material from vinyl to faux leather and expanded the line of albums to include countries such as Austria, Germany, and Luxembourg.

Impressed with the quality and success of the Continental Line series and realizing the popularity of the coin-album format with collectors, Dansco purchased the rights from Felix. Dansco would continue the Continental Line series for a short time. However, the firm quickly transitioned the Continental Series to the now beloved brown Supreme Albums we know today. Dansco eventually focused less on coin folders and more on manufacturing coin albums.

The great irony is that Felix later joined Whitman—well known for its famous blue albums—as its senior stamp editor for the Stamp & Coin Supply Merchandiser. The modern-day brown Supreme albums still serve as Whitman's most significant competitor today.

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