I've always wanted to expand the catalogue of cardboard albums on the market.

This is just passive daydreaming, not something I'll ever really find the time for, but I thought I'd talk about it with you all.

I've always loved cardboard albums. I know they're not great, but they just display coins in such a perfect way.

So with that, I've always wanted to expand the list beyond the US and Canada. I look at coins like my Yen, Pesos, and Francs and think "these are interesting, unique, and worthy of collecting." Are there really no people to buy books for them?

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic98085.html#p820253
Is it albums like those?

Just like that!

The Dansco albums are expensive, but do display both sides of coins, which is a drawback to the whitman type books.
Dansco has blank pages of very many millimeter sized holes.
Then consider this , with the magic of desktop computing, import a scan of the page, superimpose it over a blank word document and create whatever dates, notes etc, around the holes. Then print this document onto full sheet label paper. if you are super good at punching holes in the right place, you could try punching the holes and applying the whole sheet to the dansco page, with your art.
or you can just cut the sheet into strips to go above and below the holes, with your data, neatly aligned.

In Russia there is a couple of companies make such albums with good quality.
One of them have an album e.g. for Japanese 47 Prefectures seria

https://albonumismatico.com/products/japan_47_prefektures

Quote: "Mr. Midnight"​The Dansco albums are expensive, but do display both sides of coins, which is a drawback to the whitman type books.
​Dansco has blank pages of very many millimeter sized holes.
​Then consider this , with the magic of desktop computing, import a scan of the page, superimpose it over a blank word document and create whatever dates, notes etc, around the holes. Then print this document onto full sheet label paper. if you are super good at punching holes in the right place, you could try punching the holes and applying the whole sheet to the dansco page, with your art.
​or you can just cut the sheet into strips to go above and below the holes, with your data, neatly aligned.
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​I've thought about doing customs. What sorts of cardboard do whitman and Harris use? It shouldn't be hard to print them, maybe make/sell them by order on Etsy or something.

There's an article in the December issue of The Numismatist on the 80th anniversary of the Whitman coin folders.

Printing is easy, The punching of holes is where some expense would appear.