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Pretty neat though. I've certainly never seen one. Sorry, I know that doesn't help.
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How much did you pay for it at the estate sale?  Edited by oih82w8
03/06/2012 5:35 pm
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Regardless of what it turns out ot be worth, it is awesome! Look forward to an update on whatever you find out!
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That is one of the coolest numismatic items I've seen in a while!  |
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Thanks for the info and the link to the old post. I have tried looking up auction archives and only found the one from Goldberg. I saw one at the Long Beach coin show last month, but it was smaller and the guy wanted $500. I got a bunch of stuff at this estate sale, so I'm not really sure what I actually paid for it.
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I remember seeing one of these a long, long time ago at a Colorado coin show, if memory serves me correct the dealer was asking $500.00 back then (around 1982), I would think it is worth easily $1500.00 today!
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I like it and only seen on at the mint in Denver but not for sale, or in steel!
but I have haeard about them
Thanks for sharing
Bob
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03/07/2012 03:09 am
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I would think it is worth easily $1500.00 today! I saw one on ebay not to long after that one was posted on here and it had 100.00 starting bid and never got a bid so I doubt it would be worth anywhere near that amount. These are not all that uncommon and it seems the ones that got kept was from the Steel Cent days (maybe because they were outsourced to a different company or something) but I think there is quite a few of them still out there and may have actually been sold as a memento from that company. I did find this that says its worth $135.00 from Fred Weinburg http://minterrornews.com/fw_pricelist.pdf and it was signed by Jim Heine and came with a type 1 and type 2 planchet with an explanation of what it was Edit: Here is a smaller one on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/1943-STEEL-...em43add5a557 so I think the prices that are being thrown around on here is way off |
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Thanks Bryan for the link. I saw Fred Weinburg at the Long Beach show and talked with him about another error coin that I have. I didn't even think about talking to him about this planchet strip. I guess I figured it was not an error.
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These used to be fairly available back in the 70's, you don't see too many of them any more. I would think that a couple hundred would be a reasonable value.
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Very Cool.....I have no idea on it's value,but if I owned it,Iwould have to clear a little wall space to give it a home where I could see it more often....Very Nice
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I also have no clue and this is the first I have ever seen one. Absolutely awesome! I might be willing to part with a couple bills for one. Not an offer, just saying what I would be willing to spend on one.
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Thanks for the info, I too had no idea they were sold to the public, I figured they would be worth a lot more, obviously by my answer, but was going on guessing rather than facts or by ones sold, the one I saw at the coin chow, looked a lot like the OP's photo, it was mounted in an unglassed frame, with a note stapled to it like the one on ebay shows. Very cool part of history. Most planchet strips were melted back down to recover the metal and make more planchets with. The steel ones probably didn't get melted down as much, due to the composistion being used only for a single year. "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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I think the reason these strips weren't melted down is because they had to have a coating applied to the outside of the metal before the planchets were stamped out of them and if they were melted down that would be in the mix with the original composition. I may not be correct but it is the only reason I could think of for them to not be melted down and reused
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