Who will be the first to post a personal pic of the new dollar coin?

got it today..I will photo and post tonight if I have the time

Got a roll at the bank today, will be posting tonight probably. The look MUCH better in person, but still kinda blah, at least the edge writing is interesting.

I read the mint was selling them in Grand Central Station. I wanted to get a roll to pass out. Walked over to take a look just now and didn't see anything. Maybe I missed it? Oh well.

I asked at my bank. They said they didn't have any but might get some in another week or two.

When they do get them they will probably crack the rolls and give them out with a limit per person. After a few weeks and they are stuck with them they will say "Nobody wants these" and not order the next President coin. They just don't get it.

It ran from 8AM til 1PM.

I checked 3 banks and one hand very few so I just got one...that bank said they were getting more tomorrow...most banks seem not to have them

I was at my bank around noon and they had them, picked up two rolls and 5 singles to show. They do look much better in person as stated above. Not going to bother to photo and post, someone will do it. My bank was in a little hick town about 65 miles SW of Houston, if they had them I figured everyone did.

I asked at my bank this morning - no idea what I was talking about.

I'll write my bank and ask, maybe they word hasn't gotten out yet.

Still not seeing pics, people.

I have my dad going to his credit union tomorrow. Banks around here are run by idiots so they won't have a clue what I'm talking about.

OK, I'm listing a roll of 2007-P dollars in the auctions page here.

okay, didnt have time to take a great pic...will do that in a bit...here is a quicky pic I took of one of mine...I have 20.

BTW...I spent one today at lunch...waiter didnt know what it was...another waiter recognized it and it was no problem..probably going to spend 10 dollars worth...help get them circulating

I'm going to get another rolls worth to spend when i get to the bank, but yeah, for the most part nobody knows what they are. Even when I told someone they were like..."uh, you mean they made small dollars now? I thought they were big?" I guess someone hasn't seem a dollar coin since the Ikes lol.

OMFG!!! They are hideous! I hope there is at least come chocolate inside of them.

co-worker said they remind him of a cheap chuck-e-cheese token...I was very much excited about them but in hand...they arent that nice

From your pics the surface looks like it got a cheap uneven plating job.

bad photo...took it quick with bad lighting, I posted new photos here:

http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?showto...mp;#entry303260

...biggandyy, to be fair I think you should post those photos instead of the one I took quickly just to get up a photo I thing with detail they are rather nice and as they tone, they will look better as details are a bit hard to get when they are ultra reflective like they are right now...I am carrying one around for the next few weeks and with just 2 days it already is starting to look a little better and details will come out in photos better when it doesnt have a mirror finish.

Seems like I'm pretty much going to have one via trade or some sort - I am curious of how the edge of that coin looks like

I kinda like the Statue of Liberty side. I doubt there will be many of the President sides that I will like.

Then your in luck. You will at least half like all the coins in the series.


I can just see what your Prez. dollar Dansco will look like.

I got some rolls on the 15th. My overall impression of the coins is very favorable and in fact I like them more than I do the Sacs. My only criticism is that the edge lettering incusions should be bigger and deeper.

Mike

I think one coin for the entire series will suffice for my Pres Dollar collection. Liberty side up so as not to see the Pres side and everything else is on the edge so no need to worry about different dates and such as you won't be able to tell anyway.

How about this for the particularly picky collector, though...

If the edge lettering is found in both directions, up and down, will you think you need both for each date and mint mark?

I stuck mine in a whittmans yesterday and notice there is no slot for the D mintmark. Just 4 a year, it looks like since you can't see the mintmark on the coin itself, they don't feel like making books big enough to hold both lol.

Heehee, someone at work paid with Sacs today and we kept trying to give them out as game tokens... good point, though the Sac looks better than George, in my opinion...

And by the way, about collecting them with lettering in both directions - how on earth are you going to display them so anyone looking at them will tell the difference?

If I decide to put money into these things, I might get a D mint up and a P mark down (or vice versa) for each president just so I can get a little of every world.

I just tried to type "of" with a "v"...

Not bad at all. Basically, my opinion has not changed at all after seeing a few pics.

wait... the mint marks and date are on the side???

Yep, how the heck can we tell them apart in albums? My guess is the fact that the D mint is always 10 times brighter and cleaner than the P lol. If I wasn't born in PA I might have to be mad about that lol.

It's cool the major TPG's are changing their slabs to allow side viewing of the edge. At least PCGS is, haven't heard anything about NGC quite yet.

I see this morning that some folks are already offering 'upside down edge lettering' as a possible error - sheesh (but then why should I be surprised?).

Also saw what looks to be a genuine 'no edge lettering' error that is already over $200 - probably not the last of these that we will see.

well, at least those ads are giving the coins attention and appeal as collectibles.

If you want the full set you need both mints, up and down lettering in both circulation strikes and satin finish plus the proof.
So that 9 coins of each President...36 per year....360 coins.

That Dansco is getting thickerer and thickerer.

I've been reading about these as well. I wonder how hard it would be to fake?

The nice thing about a collection like that is ..................................never mind.

HeHe! That's assuming that there won't be any more made for future presidents! They might say no now, but this is the kind of thing that might be with us forever ... we can't have our future presidents feelings hurt you know!

But seriously, that's a whole lotta coins for the complete set. I wonder what HSN will be overpricing these for in a few years! I think I'll stick with business strikes for most of them and keep my money for the ones that I really like.

I got 5 of them at the bank this morning. These things look like cheapo kiddie game parlour tokens, the edge lettering is small and not well done. The design is lousy. Good job US Mint, another sucky product.

Hey! Maybe my bank is open today too. I'll have to stop by and see if I can get a few of these "beauties".

Is the lettering done last? Can some of the coins fall into the bins before they get lettered? I have some trouble visualizing how these errors could occur.

I do not have one yet.

Nor do I.

Bought 5 today, all D mint, all side printing facing the same way (if you lay George face up, you can read the writing right-side up at eye level).

They're right, the edge lettering is not very pretty. Almost mutilated.

As for portrait = cartoon/casino token: More like a comemmorative medal. I have the feeling that if the portrait was done in higer relief, it might have looked better.

Well, I boought me a roll today and the first thing I did was spend 4 on lunch at Taco Bell. The pretty much look as bad as the photos, though the quality of mine seemed pretty good (though I admit I can't tell the difference between an MS-65 and MS-69, so they could be crap and I'd never know). I will be spending the rest, so if anyone needs a D mint let me know, I'd be happy to trade.

I'll take you up on that offer. PM whenever you get a chance.

I visited the production area of the Mint in Philly a couple of weeks ago as part of a media tour. The various steps for making the Prexy dollars take place all scattered around the hall, since the equipment is all newly installed and placed in provisional locations until they get the process down pat. So they do one step over here, fill up a big wheeled bin, trundle it over there to the far side, pour them into another machine for the next step, and so on. The guy who led us around said that the dollar coins travel something like a mile within the Mint before they're done.

While these bins are being shunted around, I noticed many instances where bins of coins in different stages of production are sitting side by side. I wouldn't be that hard for some to get mixed up, if a passerby just grabbed a handful out of one and then tossed them back into the other bin.

I was amazed that there are always lots of coins that spill and fall on the floor, roll under the machinery, get left there, a real mess. Nobody cleans up until the end of the day. Every once in a while one of the coins jams in the machine and gets all chewed up, then they just pull 'em out and leave the mulched-up coin lying there.

In other words, besides the usual errors like off center strikes, double strikes, etc, expect to see the following types of errors that will be unique to the dollar coins, which in my opinion are highly likely to occur:

- missing edge lettering
- edge lettering only, on unstruck planchet
- planchet missing both strike and lettering
- struck on unburnished planchet (kind of brownish from the annealing process)
- struck on planchet that wasn't rolled to give it a raised rim before striking
- some combinations of the above

Since the Fed ordered 300 million Washingtons and the Mint has really rushed to get them ready, using a jerry-rigged production system that they're not real famiilar with, my hunch is they're not checking too carefully for errors as they go.

Start hunting!

-- Matthew

Wow, great account and tips, Matt!

I've been through 5 rolls so far, including a Philly, and I can hardly find a handful worth saving since they are so banged up in general.

same here

finally answering my own question: YEP! got two in change at a parking garage thingy. I plan on putting them back into circulation once I find a good enough place to do it.