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PCGS certifies dated, mint-specific blank planchet
nivek
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When the Sacagawea dollar was introduced in 2000, the TPGs were convinced to label blank planchets certified before 31 Dec 2000 as Year 2000 blank planchets. This was the first time, to my knowledge, that a blank planchet was certified to be tied to a specific year of production.
Earlier this year, a man submitted an entire unopened, original U.S. Mint wrapped roll of 2006-P Sacagawea dollars to PCGS for certification. In the process of grading the 25 dollar coins, PCGS discovered a Type II blank planchet. Since the planchet was clearly intended to be a 2006-P Sacagawea dollar, PCGS certified the planchet as a 2006-P blank planchet.
To my knowledge, this is a unique circumstance. Not only is it the only blank planchet certified to be a product of 2006 production, it is the only blank plachet whose "branch mint of origin" is certainly known.
Thought a few of you might be interested.
There is also a page for this coin my Sac collection: The Lothlórien Collection of Sacagawea Dollars.
- Kevin
Edited to add: It has been brought to my attention that at least one 40% silver Washington quarter blank planchet exists. This planchet was only used in San Francisco in 1976. So, the 2006-P Sac blank planchet is actually the second specimen of this type.
Earlier this year, a man submitted an entire unopened, original U.S. Mint wrapped roll of 2006-P Sacagawea dollars to PCGS for certification. In the process of grading the 25 dollar coins, PCGS discovered a Type II blank planchet. Since the planchet was clearly intended to be a 2006-P Sacagawea dollar, PCGS certified the planchet as a 2006-P blank planchet.
To my knowledge, this is a unique circumstance. Not only is it the only blank planchet certified to be a product of 2006 production, it is the only blank plachet whose "branch mint of origin" is certainly known.
Thought a few of you might be interested.
There is also a page for this coin my Sac collection: The Lothlórien Collection of Sacagawea Dollars.
- Kevin
Edited to add: It has been brought to my attention that at least one 40% silver Washington quarter blank planchet exists. This planchet was only used in San Francisco in 1976. So, the 2006-P Sac blank planchet is actually the second specimen of this type.
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Cool info, thanks for sharing.
<< <i>He must have submitted an unopened OBW roll to PCGS. >>
Wouldn't that have been an unopened OMW roll to PCGS? (original mint wraped)
Lafayette Grading Set
- Kevin
I'm curious, though. How did tha planchet get so dinged up? It has far more hits than a struck coin would.
Russ, NCNE
Looks like a 62 to me
- Kevin
I used to have a pretty decent set of planchets.
http://www.error-coins.com/blanks/blanks.html
<< <i>Now, THAT is cool!
I'm curious, though. How did tha planchet get so dinged up? It has far more hits than a struck coin would.
Russ, NCNE >>
If you have some time to kill, watch the Mint's video on how coins are made. The rinses amount to dumping them into big tubs similar to wahsing machines! I strongly suspect that the planchet you see is just typical and that the minting process fills in most of the nicks and scratches .
Forgot to add, cool Lothlorien Collection!
The name is LEE!
Russ
<< <i>How did tha planchet get so dinged up? It has far more hits than a struck coin would. >>
Most of the nicks and marks are flattened away completely during striking. The surface of most planchets are covered with small nicks and the larger the coin the heavier the nicks.
On the clad coins and nickels these marks are rarely completely obliterated. They
are seen most often at the highest points of the design where metal movement is
lesser as well as around the rim. These outer ones tend to be more severe and are
often referred to as "chicken scratches".
The 1969 quarter is probably the poster child for planchet marking. Most of these
are heavily marked.
A good way to see these is to find a mint set coin struck on a regular planchet and
another struck on a burnished planchet. Perhaps the most dramatic way to see them
is to look at a heavily off center coin. The unstruck portion will be heavily marked but
most of the marks are invisable on the struck portion. It's not difficult to find an exam-
ple where a scratch is visible on both portions.
This is not nearly so much of a problem with softer metals but has always been a pro-
blem with copper nickel.
By the way, that is one cool "coin." I, too, wonder how and why PCGS arrived at its MS61 grade....
Mark
<< <i>By the way, that is one cool "coin." I, too, wonder how and why PCGS arrived at its MS61 grade.... >>
The long scratch running across the planchet from 4 o'clock to 10 o'clock is the reason it was graded MS61. imho
It has been brought to my attention that at least one 40% silver Washington quarter blank planchet exists. This planchet was only used in San Francisco in 1976. So, the 2006-P Sac blank planchet is actually the second specimen of this type.
- Kevin