Giveaway

Just respond to this thread to become eligible to win an uncirculated US 2016-D cent and a blank cent planchet from the US Mint. This will be a random drawing, so just post for your chance to win.

This is too easy.

Add me into your draw.

That's very nice of you... add me in !

Wow, thank you! Good luck everyone!

I'm in

Lets try
Hope to win

Thanks, haven't gotten a 2016 P yet.

I have been looking for 2016 P. Add me to the list.

and me :)

I'll give it a try.
It would be my first UNC coin.
And what's a cent planchet? Never heard of it.

From a flat sheet the coin shapes are punched out, making a blank.
Then adding a rim to the blank makes it a planchet.
After that it goes through edge milling if required
- then obverse/reverse stamped.

Might as well. Don't think I have any blank planchets yet, and I've been looking for a nice Shield cent to add to my pocket piece miscellany.

Please add me to the list. I don't have any blank planchets. Thanks!

I understand what a blank planchet is, but I don't know how they slip through the process and escape unnoticed. Does it happen by mistake, or does someone need to help it happen?

This is a great idea!

please count me in.

John

Count me in :D

Ends soon, so enter while you still have a chance!

Count me in :D

And the winner, chosen randomly using the Psychic Science random number generator (no I didn't make that up) is... Hello There, and just to show how in this case close is good enough, the two others who posted before and after him are winners too. That would be MonaSeaclaid and Sayan.

Congrats to the winners.
To the others (including me), at least we had some fun while creating expectations.

Quote: "Pott"​Please add me to the list. I don't have any blank planchets. Thanks!
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​I understand what a blank planchet is, but I don't know how they slip through the process and escape unnoticed. Does it happen by mistake, or does someone need to help it happen?

​The Mint gives them away to young visitors along with the webbing left over when the coin blanks are cut from the planchet strips, or at least they used to. I'm told they will also send them out to teachers, Scout Troop organizers etc. I think it's a great thing to do and such acts give a little polish to the reputation of mints in this age of cynical over-commemoration. I wonder how many of our most prominent numismatists got their first taste while getting their Boy Scout Coin Collecting badge. So, well done US Mint and well done Steve.

Believe it or not but I've seen a blank planchet in a PCGS slab. It was in Facebook group and some bloke was trying to pass it off as some rare kind of error. Yeah, they took the cash, certified and graded it. Think about that.... take your time. Feel like banging your head against the wall? Yeah, me too.

Yippee i am really happy