Planchet planchet is struck. After striking, it becomes a coin and is no longer a planchet. Occasionally, a planchet will escape the mint without having been struck. This is a blank planchet error, and is usually worth a few dollars for modern coins. Occasionally, blank planchets can be rare and valuable, such is the case for Morgan Dollar blank planchets, although authentication is highly recommended for such pieces as they would be fairly easy to counterfeit. Planchet A planchet \ˈplan-chət\ is a round metal disk that is ready to be struck as a coin. An older word for planchet is flan.
Jamie Blanks Jamie Blanks Jamie Blanks is an Australian film director and composer. He is probably most famous for directing the 1998 cult slasher film "Urban Legend". He attended film school at Melbourne’s Swinburne Film School (becoming the Victorian College of the Arts during his three years of study). Blanks gave commentaries on the "Urban Legend" and "Valentine" (2001) DVDs. His third feature "Storm Warning" won awards for Special Effects and Score at Screamfest 2007. Blanks shot, edited and composed the score for his fourth feature, "Long Weekend" (released on video in the United States as "Nature's Grave"), starring Jim Caviezel and