Couldn't Resist... Presidential Dollars

I like the Presidential dollar series because its a series because it is fun to go to the bank and buy a roll whenever a new president comes out. I keep two of the best examples for my collection and then spend the rest. At face value for the coin how can I go wrong collecting it? I also think that just like with the State Quarters it will be a fun set to have complete, and unlike the State Quarters, there's less popularity for this series so less people will have complete sets.

As for opening the roll in a way that doesn't damage the coins? I wouldn't spend to much time on it. The Presidential dollars I've pulled out of rolls aren't in high MS states or anything like that. Quite a few scuffs and bag marks. The sloshing that will occur unwrapping the roll will cause insignificant damage in my opinion.

Really? So it's like a car then? It's better to part it out than to sell it whole sometimes.

-- Boris

I do like the presidential coins myself because of the U.S. history they allow us to see and explore. Most of these types of releases do not interest me, but the presidential coins have. Value wise I certainly don't expect much.

Don't know if I'd make that comparison, because each coin runs fine on its own. But a muffler won't get you to work.

Each coin has a value, even if it is face value. Putting them in a group does not increase that value, but it might decrease the value of the group because you'd be forcing the buyer to buy other coins they may not really want. But selling/buying a group of coins does have its advantages (lower transaction costs).

There *might* be certain situations where a set of coins would be worth more than the parts. Such as if you own the *entire* set of known coins. Wouldn't that be something if one person owned all 5 1913 Liberty nickels?

Coin collecting should be fun, and completing sets is one of the fun aspects to the "collector" mentality.

I've been collecting the $1 coins, but they have always reminded me of something you would get at Chuck E Cheese. There just isn't any detail in them like other denominations. I don't care for the gold color, and especially don't like the edge lettering; makes them look even cheaper. The only time I have received one in change since 2000, was a bank. I got $17 in halves and $3 Presidential dollars for a $20 bill. These coins will never fly until the dollar bill is taken out of circulation.

I too have been "collecting" them. I guess just for the fun of it and for a nephew maybe or girlfriends daughter.
I have been getting a roll from the bank every time a new President comes out. I get some "singles" too, so that I can keep two folders and one album up to date.
But, I also get the Presidential Dollar Proof Set each year from the U.S. Mint. With this I intend to "crack" the Set and put these into my album at some future point. This way, at least, I'll have a completed album of "Proof" quality coins to maximize any collector value in the future. This would be more valuable (though beit small to begin with) than the "bag marked" rolls that are easiest and the less costly way to get them.
They're just going to be scratched up with contact marks any other way than getting "Proof" coins. But those albums will suffice for kids wonderfully.....so those that I put together will be just for fun.
This Presidential Proof Set is included with each Silver Proof Set each year, but I didn't want to seperate it from that Set, so I also order the Presidential Proof Set separately from the Silver Proof Set.
To each his own on that idea if you want to make a "Proof" Presidential dollar Album versus one culled from rolls at a bank or two roll sets which will have the dreaded/rough handled "bag marks".

I had no choice in collecting them because they came with the 2007 u.s.mint silver proof set that I needed so I will probably continue with them as long as they come with the silver sets in the future,but I think they made the silver set in 2007 and on go up in price to like $38 a set when they were only $32 a set prior to 2007

I have picked up a roll of each the pres. dollars at the bank as they come out.I have not opened any of them. Would it change the value of the roll if I opened them, especially the years that had known errors? JC