Any blank planchet gold coins (planchets) out there?

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,887 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 4:31PM

  I think I remember seeing or hearing about one, way back. But I could be wrong.
  
  I still think about those Indian cents struck on $2.50 gold planchets. Ooh-la-la. Generally speaking, I'm no error maven, but I lust after those.
  
  Surely some blanks escaped the mint, I would think. Obviously the ones that got struck into cents were in the wrong place.

  
  
  

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,859 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 4:46PM

  If one did exist I think it would be difficult to authenticate. There are many high quality struck counterfeits that are of proper weight, size, and fineness and I'm assuming they use high quality planchets. Unless one of the major grading services would be willing to slab one it would be worth essentially scrap metal value.

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• goodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 7:53PM

  SEGS has slabbed a modern $5 gold planchet, you would have to trust that they are right though.....
  

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,750 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 10:11PM

  I seem to remember seeing a foreign blank planchet that had the edge inscription rolled into it. Maybe an Austrian 100 Corona?

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• jonathanb Posts: 3,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 10:44PM

  The Damon collection had $5 and $10 blank planchets with an impeccable provenance. From what I understand, they were found in the collection in an envelope marked "Worthless Coins" -- which, from the perspective of a banker in the early 1900s, was literally true.
  
  I've seen some Gold Eagle planchets.
  
  I have a 1 ounce blank planchet. I don't know what it's from, but it weighs exactly 1 troy oz. It also has a pedigree back to the 1970s, which rules put every candidate coun and medal that I could come up with.

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,887 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 11:05PM

  
  
  << <i>I seem to remember seeing a foreign blank planchet that had the edge inscription rolled into it. Maybe an Austrian 100 Corona? >>
  
  Now THAT would be cool.
  
  
  
  << <i>"Always proofread your posts to make sure you haven't anything out!" >>
  
  Had to LOL@ your sigline quote, Cap'n H, 'cause I do that all the freakin' time.

  
  
  

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• pitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭

  September 5, 2012 11:13PM

  I found a completely blank 2009 cent in a roll last week but I would assume it has no value at all.

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• EagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 6, 2012 2:01AM

  There was a $3.00 gold blank in the Longacre sale,1870.

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  September 6, 2012 2:16AM

  HA link

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• GoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭

  September 6, 2012 2:17AM

  blank $20

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• shorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 6, 2012 5:24AM

  I was told in the ANA traveling presentation on Chinese counterfeits that planchets would no longer be slabbed because of the quality of the Chinese counterfeits, but haven't seen that confirmed anywhere.

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