2005 Bison Nickel P&D Roll Set!

I just received my 2005 Bison Nickel P&D Roll Set, it is my first set from the MINT! When it came I saw it was in a white box that is sealed shut. Do you take it out or is it better to leave it sealed shut? What do you guys do?
Also it's dated: 4/26/05 at 11:32!
Thanks,
SM

 

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I always look at a set but never open any more than that. Guess a sealed box is prefered by many but I am not real sure about how wise it is to leave the rolls in the box over a long period of time? Card board draws moisture but my wife and I do it all the time and the only coins I was really concerned with were Sackies as the end coins seemed to turn very quickly regardless of where or how they are kept!

 

I suppose it depends on what you plan to do with them. I received mine a week ago and couldn't wait to see them. I opened them immediately and looked at them very carefully. They are sealed in plastic and come in envelopes that protect them quite well. You can always store them in the boxes once you've looked them over but I find that the excess packaging just takes up room in my coin storage boxes. If you do decide to open them and toss the boxes remember, ALWAY recycle.

 

So it won't really effect the value in the future by opening the white box?
Don't some ebay user's sell them without the box?
Thanks for the INFO!!
SM

 

Nobody is buying the box. I couldn't imagine the box meaning anything to anyone except one or two VERY anal coin collectors...I hope that I never meet those two guys! :}

 

Well, here I am, the anal collector. I never open the white box of coins from the Mint. I've bought two sets of P&D rolls of each of the three different types of nickels so far on the Westward series and I'll do the same when the Ocean in View nickels come out.

It's worth more to me to have them in the original Mint box just the way they were shipped and unopened. Like us or not, us anal collectors are out here.

 

And you call yourself a coin lover :]

 

It's sad, huh Moen. I should be ashamed of myself

(But I'm not....Oh well)

 

No, No That's the great thing about coin collecting, you can collect any way you want and nobody can tell you what you should or shouldn't do. Keep doin' what you're doin'.

 

Don't know whether it's wise or un-wise. Have been collecting for a very long time and I love to look at the coins. I think that if your intention is to re-sell the coins, the prices, (at least on e-bay) tend to run much higher on an un-opened item. My standard of practice on any item purchased from the mint is to get at least one more than I need so that I can at least open the item and enjoy the beauty of the coin or coins. The un-opened item goes in the vault with the rest of the collection and my kids and grandkids can worry about what to do with them.

 

Are you talking about the rolls from the mint?

I just got my two sets, two P's and two D's today. I opened them and they are in white plastic trays. I always open the box they come in, just to check them out. I got two sets, just in case they go up in price I will have one set to sell.

Slightly OT: I remember reading an interview with Stephen King once where he said he wanted to put out a book with all blank pages just to sell to the collectors who purchase his first editions and never open them, just so they can resell them later, lol.

 

Well, I went ahead and opened it! But, I'm going to keep the box, too!
Thanks for all the Info!!!
SM

 

I like to keep my mint rolls in the sealed box. Just one more way to show they are unsearched. If they are out of the box they can be opened searched and and resealed in the original mint wrappers. Try using a pair of tweezers to open a roll from the end it's not hard. I trust no one.

 

R u planning on selling them? If not open them! hehe

 

Is that collecting or investing

Do you really enjoy looking at white boxes, and showing them to others?

 

Some people collect while some people collect for investment purposes. Either is good. I collect strickly to pass on a nice set to each of my 3 sons. That is just me. How I do that is unique to me and how someone else collects is unique to them. It couldn't be less confusing.

 

I bought extra, so I could sell them and buy the high dollar Peace Medal Set...the only one I didn't buy from the Mint. hehe

 

Mine are still in box

Yep, don't know what I'm doing but I have 2004 2005 in white box still sealed. Yes, i even have the last issue 2003 in sealed white box. They seem more authentic to me to be sealed and untouched in case. It's just me but the more I follow antiques the more I find them to be worth more years and years down the line (records, board games, dolls, ect.) But then again I don't plan on selling, just holding. BTW, just recieved my set from the mint yeaterday, now i have 2 2005 sets. I wish US mint would have a subscription to buy all on first day of issue. They only have mint, proof, quarters, sag) Everything else but nichel. Subscription as in, just charging your credit card and sending to you on first day. I'm sure they do have something somewhere like that but I'm only a small collector. Oh well, as time goes on I'll appreciate them more when knowing that 90% of the boxes have been opened or tampered with. It's a nice feeling knowing you one of 10% that has unopened sets. Just like the 1909svdb. Having one means your one in 484,000 out of how many millions that has a prise such as that. just my 2 cents, Forgot where I posted last. I said most of this before I just can't remember what forum I was in. Thx for listening