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Blank Planchet Type-II
Certified: Raw
Price: $125 Back to Listings
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The planchet is really no more significant than a planchet from a Sacagawea dollar, which you can get for $125. The only way to even tell the difference between the two is the edge lettering which wasn't used on the last attempt at a dollar coin.
The struck coin missing the lettering has a lot more potential.
Interestingly the lettered edge was used on our earliest coins from the 1790's to about the 1830's. Many errors exist with those... overlapping letters and such.
I don't think this was intentionally released to stimulate interest.
The dollar coin will never circulate as long as there is a dollar bill around. It will get thrown aside in drawer or something. They will be making this item with each president for some years to come.
Complete bonehead move motivated by political interests. Nobody wanted the full size Eisenhower dollar ( made shortly after his death), too damn big. The small dollar ( SBA) failed in 1979 ( they blamed confusion with quarter), so then make it gold-colored ( didn't work in 2000), won't work now,either. Its the same exact coin as in 2000, just a dead president instead of the Indian girl.
To circulate this thing, you have to do what the Canadians did ( they have the same thing, with a loon on it, call it a Loonie), then added a two dollar coin ( a twonie) and no paper money under $5. I'm still trying to figure out how that works at the Titty bar ?
The whole idea of a coin series with every president is insane. They basically just recently unloaded all those Sac dollars on Panama ( I think it was), where they like them.