bank roll of 2000p sac's/ very strange

silverandvinyl

I just picked up a roll from my bank.Apparently this is a circulated roll. 24 of the coins looked normal in color except one.This one looks like brass.The finish on this one is flat while all the others have a nice shine to them.I compared this one to a lot of others I have.I can'nt find anything that has the same type of finish.I stopped looking after 4 rolls.Lot of the older and newer ones I got from the mint have black pit marks( which are normal on this coins).the one I just found has no signs og the black marks. I thought I read something about this on this forum.Something about an experimental finish. I will appreciate any feed back you might give.

davefperry

This site was mentioned on a forum and might help.

silverandvinyl

Dave: Thank you very much for the site.My SAC looks just like the 2001's that Mike B had up.I just sent him an e-mail about the one I have.Thank you again.

lordmarcovan

Interesting.

I wonder why we couldn't have used a composition similar to the aureate nickel used in the Canadian Loon dollars? Loonies seldom lose their golden color in circulation.

MadMarty

<< <i>Loonies seldom lose their golden color in circulation >>



What happends if they don't go out in the sun anymore???

cladking

Are you sure it isn't a roll of "24" unc and "1" circ coin? The sacs do often look
like brass with circulation or after being carried as a pocket piece. Quite attractive
really. Most of hese are rolled in counting houses and it's not unusual to get a
circ piece mixed in with the other coins.

crito

I wonder why we couldn't have used a composition similar to the aureate nickel used in the Canadian Loon dollars?

If I remember right, the sac composition was designed to accommodate vending machine manufacturers. It had to pass as a SBA in the machines. also remember reading about a pre-release sac that was stolen at some vending show the mint had attended. It got slabbed and sold on ebay... and was later confiscated by the gov.

supercoin

Yep, it was designed to have the same electromagnetic "signature" as SBAs. One of the earlier tries was actually a five layer clad composition, but was deemed to expensive. Bet that one would have made for some cool errors.

silverandvinyl

CladKing: They were all circulated coins.The bank said thats all they had.I'll know in a couple of days what it is.