Ike Dollar

I'll always be a fan of the Eisenhower dollars. I got the 40% silver bicentennial proof set as a Christmas present when I was a kid, and I thought they were the coolest thing on the planet. In not too many years, I had completed my set of "Ikes", including the blue and brown box coins of the early 70's. I think the Ikes and the SBA's are the only coin sets I have ever completed! Even though my silver proof and UNC Ikes have hardly gone up in value in 30 years, I still love them!

So I'm back again guys. I have been trying to get a box of Ikes but my banks keeps telling me they are 'impossible' to order. Does anyone have a number that I can give to the bank for them to call?

I asked my bank to order IKES for me about a month ago, and they tried and tried and couldn't get them. It might be that certain parts of the country, they are already gone into collector's hands, while they still may be available in other parts of the country- perhaps closer to Philadelphia or Denver should have a lot.

I have been successful getting loose IKES a few times since the beginning of the year. I had never thought to ask the tellers until this thread was started in January. Since then, I've been able to accumulate about 50 IKES, all commons, but some were really nice AU/BU pieces. However, I should not that I've been to more than 25 branches in the last two months and only two of them had them. You have to ask and look hard.

I am interested in hearing whether anyone has been successful ordering IKES through their bank and what they had to go through to be successful.

It is my sense that the going rate for IKEs on ebay, $1.25-1.50, may be a bargain since they seem to be very hard to get at face value. Perhaps this is the sleeper series that will take off in 5-10 years?

On a different note and slightly off thread topic, I also get the small dollars from the bank. Before the Presidential dollars, I was finding occasional SAC proofs, SAC not intended for circulation (like 2003P, 2003D), and I've accumulated about 25 1979P wide rim SBA (the tougher variety). Once the Presidential dollars were released in large numbers, the rolls have become heavily diluted/polluted with the Presidential dollars (I hate the date being on the rim!). Now the rolls are >85% Presidential dollars and maybe 10% SAC and 5% SBA. The number of keepers has gone way down.

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My set (32 - no 1972-TII) of Eisenhower dollars (BU and PROOF) was one of the first I completed.

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It was the first set I completed, in a Dansco as well!
As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the first two coins I ever "collected" were Ikes. I will always have a special love for the series for many reasons.

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valuable or not, they're still an impressive looking set of coins.

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Amen to that!

I actually just completed my IKEs, including the 1972 T-II!!

I found the Type II in a dealer's box of loose IKEs, it's probably about an AU55, but I don't care. It cost me $2.

Sounds like I should stop spending my ikes any more. For once I went to a bank and bought 80 of them. Another time I found 7 of them. I have been over at least 100 banks and only these two banks had them.

I spent two of them at toll booth. Each time the booth worker asked for more. It seems that the general public are interested in Ike too.

I guess it depends on how much effort you want to put in to it. You probably can do better if you have access to coin shows near you and are willing to assemble the set yourself. You can pick up most of those coins for much less than the almost $36 avg cost in that set. There may be a couple that will cost you more than that (1973-S proofs are harder to find, especially in that grade), but most will be significantly less than that cost.