If you specifically collect planchets, yes. If you're just planning to sell it, you're probably better off just selling it now. I can't imagine how one would go about preserving metal that isn't encased. Without an image, the fields would get wrecked pretty quickly, I'd think.
Only if it has a high grade coin image minted on the obverse and reverse! Actually, its submitter's choice. Is it a Type 1 or Type 2? A Type 1 is a blank while a Type 2 is a blank that has been through the upsetting mill which creates the raised edge.
Your coin looks like a 1974-D Doubled Die Obverse Kennedy Half that has been struck off center 100% at 3:00. Your coin looks nice but you may not need to slab it to enjoy it in your collection. I have a cent, nickel, dime, quarter, & half mounted in a Capital plastic year set holder. All are Type 2 planchets like yours.
Attribution & provenance I almost forgot to mention that the nickel blank in this set may have been either a 1912-S V-nickel or a 1913 V-nickel. The blank may have been in the coining chamber at midnight December 31st 1912 in San Francisco when they stopped production of the Liberty design and refitted the machines for the Buffalo design. It has been postulated that a mint employee may have secretly removed this 1912-S nickel blank from the machine along with five other nickel blanks. Those five were clandestinely struck as 1913 Liberty nickels but the sixth blank was apparently never struck. This means that the T2 planchet depicted was never struck as either the 1912-S or the 1913 Liberty nickel! It now resides in this set. How’s that for provenance?
Sounds extremely convincing if you don't sit and think it over carfeully for a second. haha Bravo sir :devil:
fun pedigree You could create a fun pedigree for every blank in the set. You know for instance that the cent was left over from 1877 Indian cent production in Philadelphia. It didn’t get struck as the key date Indian in 1877 and remained in storage in Philadelphia for 30 years. It was at that time the San Francisco mint was in need of planchets to make their first run of 1908-S Indian cents. Unfortunately, the shipment of Philadelphia blanks was delayed causing few 1908-S cents to be made that year. This particular planchet didn’t actually go into San Francisco coin production until 1909 when the West Coast mint was making VDB Lincoln cents. Someone may have found this coin in an original roll of 1909-S VDB cents. It is apparently a nice example of a 1909-S VDB Type 2 planchet. The hobby is uncertain whether it is un-struck 1909-S VDB or if it is a 1909-S VDB that has been struck 100% off center. Of course, if you weigh it, you would discover that this T2 planchet is actually copper coated zinc which wasn’t in production until 73 years later.
