Ripping Wrappers and Finding Plain Edge Dollars

This remarkable photo was taken by Sandy in Central Florida. People who sent photos of this nature tell me that the primary reason for opening the wrappers only partially like this isn't for speed of searching. It was to protect the plain edge dollars from unnecessary extra handling. Although many folks from Florida who kept their finds intact within the rolls didn't do it with this purpose in mind, by keeping their rolls intact, they greatly increased their chances of finding a die match to a mintmarked coin. If you submit the coins in pairs, with one coin being a plain edge dollar, and the second coin being a properly edge lettered dollar from the same die pair, some grading services will grant you the originating mint designation on the insert. Check with them first, though, because not all services are offering this, and you must do the die matching yourself, which takes a certain amount of expertise and nitpicky patience to accomplish!