Look at this auction! http://cgi.ebay.com/2007-Thomas-Jef...goryZ524QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Do you believe this seller? The bid is up to $187.00. 1. Who unwraps a roll like that and takes a picture? 2. The Planchet is completely blank with upset edge (kinda like a blank Sac for the last 7 years). 3. No grading service would be able to authenticate it to be what the seller claims it to be. How much do blank planchets cost?
You don't have to stay away, just only pay fair market value (which I believe is still less than $100).
I reported it for misleading title. Title says Jefferson Dollar Blank - can't prove this - It may be a blank found in a Jefferson roll (doubt it) but not a blank Jefferson.
The interesting thing, to me, here is the 'blank' is toning... you can see it is darker than the other coins...
Sorry guy's, But I believe his story. But As you say, can't prove it.. and I also open rolls like he does.
I know a local dealer in errors who has pulled all of his Saci - blanks. They were being bought as blanks and then re-sold on eBay as Presidential blanks. The genuises are paying big dollars over the Saci balnks, and no human being can tell the difference.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-Sac-Planch...goryZ524QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I guess I can buy this, crack it out and sell it as a Jefferson Blank for more $$:rolling::rolling::rolling:
I think a blank such as this would sell for about $80-$90. Now that is for a Sac. blank and I guess if you could ever prove that you had a president planchet you would get a nice bit more. Speedy
The different color and it missing the edge lettering suggests it came from somewhere else, at least to me.
The next time I have to generate a document at work, I'll try submitting a stack of blank pages stapled together. I wonder by what multiple my paycheck will grow! It sure is the life when your mistakes are worth so much, isn't it?
It makes sense that a blank would be a different color and toning. The struck coins have a protective coating to help keep them from toning. A blank would not have that coating on it. Same for the edge lettering since it is not added until the coins are struck. That being said, I am not saying this is the real deal.
Read in either Numismatic or CoinWorld that PCGS/NGC would on call the blanks maganese/brass alloy blank and that they would make NO claim to one blank or another.
Thats what ticks me off about this auction. Some poor sucker is going to pay big bucks for what, a dollar planchet, nothing more. Even if it had edge lettering a TPG could only designate it as a presidential dollar planchet, since it could be anyone of the ones already made. I just think the whole thing is bogus. Who opens a roll like that, draws arrows and photographs the roll?
Common sense should rule here, but someone will want to get rich quick, and won't think of the ramifications, the seller if indeed found it in the roll isn't being devious or deceptive, he's just selling it. If someone is dumb enough not to think about the fact that it is unattributable as to type of coin, then that is their own fault. If he is being devious and deceptive and using a roll of jeffs to up the bidding, it is still the buyers fault for not thinking the thing through.
I believe the top TPG will designate them as president blanks and even by which president IF you send in the complete UNOPENED roll for grading and they discover it in the roll themselves. Once YOU open the roll though, it is just another dollar planchet.
Well said BQ. I have a blank Lincoln somewhere in my mess. Got it out of a roll that I opened at work one day. Kept it cuz it was cool and I replaced it with 1 cent. Considering the composition on cents has changed over the years shall I sell it as a 1995 Double Die blank? yeah, that's it. I pulled it out of a roll of 1995s and ALL were double dies except the blank. A blank planchet double die is worth more than a double die as they are much more rare. Probably an MS69 coin to boot. Worth at least a thousand bucks!
