Should I Open it???

These Sacagawea's do have edge lettering, so, maybe there is a possibility?

 

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What is a blank worth Sac worth?

 

Aw jeez! I can't believe you fell for this put together roll thing and hopefully you didn't spend an arm and a le....................


Oh wait, these are Sac's! I was thinking Morgan CC Dollars. DUH!!

Sure, I cannot think of any reason not to open it.

 

Well, I guess that would be about a 100 % profit. How can you beat that ?

 

I would open it and slab it, then sell it.

 

Checked ebay for blank planchet dollar coins. Not a lot sold but none were sold for that much $$. I would open it. I know I already said that but just thought I'd say it again

 

That is the real question.

A planchet isn't worth a great deal. The unopened roll is probably worth more than the 24 coins plus the value of the planchet. Why because there are a lot of wishful thinkers out there that will dream of "great treasures" hidden in the roll.

But a planchet with a lettered edge is a lot rarer and more valuable. And they only way to know for sure what you have is to open the roll. So the question is, is it worth losing the "treasure hunt" premium on the roll for the very slight chance the planchet has a lettered edge?

 

Depends as if you sold it you would always wonder what if....Me I would open it.

 

I agree with Conder. I would ebay it as is.
Odds are it isn't edge lettered.

 

That is pretty darned cool... I once found a Canadian 1982 Constitution dollar roll with a blank planchet on the end. Those planchets, however, are very scarce, so I cracked that roll open in a heartbeat!! My only regret is that I wish I had taken photographs, as you did...

I say open it, you have the photos, and those are something you will always have, long after the blank and roll are gone...

 

Best reply of the bunch!

 

OPEn It!

 

I'll give you 1 cent to open it...guaranteed profit.

 

Question: isn't the edge lettering applied at the time of striking and not by another process? How could a blank planchet get edge lettered? Wouldn't SOME kind of image be on that face, even if a capped die or other piece of badly smudged design elements?

Anybody have an idea how an edge lettering can get on with a face that utterly smooth?

I do get the idea that the rarity of whatever event that might be IS what would up the value, but it also makes it far less likely the edge lettering is there.

 

The edge letters are applied after the striking by the Schuler edge lettering machine

 

Thanks. I don't know where, but I had somehow gotten the impression (pun) that it was done by the striking collar.

 

Which is why you have the type 1 and type 2 versions of the coins since they go into that machine in no particular way.

 

The proofs have the lettering applied during the striking through the use of a three piece collar. This can be done because the proof striking is comparatively slow, 20 to 30 coins per minute. But it isn't practical with the high speed business strike presses at 750 coins per minute. So they are lettered after striking with the Schuler edge lettering machine at around 1000 coins per minute. If an unstruck planchet gets mixed in with the struck coins it can get run through the edge letterer as well.

As furryfrog says that is why there are right side up and upside down edge letterings on the coins. They all come out of the press the same side up but after being dumped several times from press to tote bin to hopper they get all mixed up and go into the edging machine face up or face down at random.

 

Thanks, that's really cool! So that means that on proofs there should be no A's and B's, right?

 

By the way, has anyone told you your avatar can be, err, umm, disturbing to some? I come from a long line of clown phobics.