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Wahington Presidential Dollars

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mailman1959

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I was cleaning out my closet and came across a box from the Mint. It is unopened and postmarked 3/11/2007. 5 rolls of "P" and 5 rolls of "D". Does that date and being unopened add any value if I try to sell the whole box? I paid $359.90, think I can get my money back out of them? Thanks!

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Well, I think that's $250 face value. With them being mint sealed rolls you might get a premium ($30-40?) Selling them individually or the right person that wants it might give you $350-$400, but presidential dollars didn't catch on with collectors or the population like the State Quarters did or like the mint hoped, so they haven't seemed to hold up in value over the years - quite the opposite. I mostly see the values way way down.

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I was wondering about the missing edge letters. I read some articles on it and the mint was first notified of them on Thursday March 8, my package is round-dated with the Post Office date of March 11 in Cleveland Ohio and it was shipped on 2/27 out of Memphis Tenn. 10 rolls, what's the odds that I got some of the errors?

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On 12/8/2022 at 9:16 PM, mailman1959 said:

I was wondering about the missing edge letters. I read some articles on it and the mint was first notified of them on Thursday March 8, my package is round-dated with the Post Office date of March 11 in Cleveland Ohio and it was shipped on 2/27 out of Memphis Tenn. 10 rolls, what's the odds that I got some of the errors?

Your best bet would be to open them up and see, I can't see anyone paying much of a premium unless they can verify what is in the rolls. The shipping date is not enough to identify them as missing edge lettering coins, from what I understand.

I really don't think you have much to loose either way, so I'd open them. 

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[If I may, I should like to present you with a quote taken from a chapter titled, "Mister 880," ".... the United States Secret Service conducted a manhunt for [Edward] Mueller (ne Emerich Juettner) that exceeded in intensity and scope any other manhunt in the chronicles of counterfeiting. (The U.S.S.S. called him Mr. Eight Eighty, and then Old Mr. Eight Eighty, after the number of the file kept on him at Secret Service HQ, in Washington, for in those years they knew him only by the bills he passed [from 1938 to 1948]."

So why all the hubbub?  Because this most sought after man counterfeited one-dollar silver certificates which infuriated those whose duty was to catch him because he misspelled the president's name exactly the same way you did turning out the crude dollar bills from the same kind of inferior plates, on the same [primitive] hand-driven printing press in the same corner of the same kitchen of the same tip-floor tenement flat, and he never turned out more counterfeit dollars than he needed to support his dog and himself.

Having overstayed my welcome, I wish you all the best for the holidays season!]

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