Red Book Price is a little High...I do not collect blank plancet... My own Opinion blank plancet is not a coin...
Redwin A blank planchet is an error in that it should have never gotten out of the mint without being struck with the proper denomination just like your avatar shouldn't have gotten out after being struck twice in two different presses. Though a big difference in scarcity and price (not a "million dollars") they are both errors from the mint. A blanck cent planchet can also be obtained by taking a tour at one of the mints so the price has been quite low (about a buck) but blank planchets of other denominations can draw quite a premium. technically your avatar is not a coin either as it shows more than one denomination. It is an error made while coins were being pressed and shouldn't exist, but it does.
read this: http://www.coinfacts.com/error_coins/double_denomination_errors.htm DOUBLE DENOMINATION ERRORS One of the most expensive, popular, and desired types of errors are the double denominations. This error happens when a coin is struck on a previously struck coin of another denomination. Examples are a cent on a struck dime, and a nickel on a struck cent. The most dramatic are those with considerable design visible from the original strike.:thumb:
Here what you write >technically your avatar is not a coin either as it shows more than one denomination. It is an error made while coins were being pressed and shouldn't exist, but it does. I think You are wrong.. My Avatar is a coin with 2 Images of Denomination and a finish product..A blank Plancet is unfinish product that you can not purchased in any store and is not legal to purchased anything because it is Blank. And if you read the Coin Fact encyclopedia A double Denomination is a coin error most popular and the most expensive error. Blank plancet is to many out there and I do have more than ten that i just throw it on a garbage can. Tha's all. Yes some peoples collect blank plancet I am not againts it. But this only my own opinion. I do not collect blank plancet..
I will PM you If I encoutered again any planchet in my bulk of rolls of penny dime or quarters & half. I will give it to you by FREE. As soon you received it you pay only my shipping cost and handling. ok.:thumb:
Red- you bring a good arguement with what you say but my option now is that a blank and a double Denomination are not errors.Ziggy- you bring a good arguement as well and if blanks are errors that means that sublimaly your also saying double Denomination is an error too by how I'm thinking of what you two are saying.But please we're using this site for help and good people to share there collection of coins, not to fight and yes red did make a big price on a coin but different collectors have different thoughts and ideas. So please no more fighting
I'm not fighting I was offering a differing opinion, thats all. I thought that that's what this is all about. Blank Planchets can and do circulate until someone notices, I have even received them in change. I never said that double denomination isn't an error, it is a very nice one that i would love to have a specimen of some day. I was merely stating that they are both errors, just of different rarity. The mint does not intentionally produce a multi denomination coin so it is technicaly not a coin but rather an image of two different coins that should have never occured. they can occur by error but I suspect that they occur more often by a mint employee messing around.
I agree. And I think some errors like that may occur due to intentional acts by people on a floor tour. (I have heard rumors of such.)
