Aside from ASEs and 5-oz ATB pucks, Ikes are the biggest thing going as far as U.S. coinage, which makes them a lot of fun. Also helped spell their downfall - who wants to carry that manhole cover (let alone 3 or 5 of them) in their pocket?
Doesn't matter to me, I still like 'em and collect 'em!
A couple interesting facts according to Wikipedia, which is never wrong:
Quote: The Eisenhower dollar was the last dollar coin to contain a proportional amount of base metal to lower denominations; it has the same amount of copper-nickel as two Kennedy half dollars, four Washington quarters, or ten Roosevelt dimes. Because of this it was a heavy and somewhat inconvenient coin. It was often saved as a memento of Eisenhower and never saw much circulation outside of casinos. This led to its short time in circulation and its replacement by the smaller, but even less popular, Susan B. Anthony dollar in 1979.
hmmmm I use to always ask for them at the bank because I use to give them to my kids a couple years back from the tooth fairy....... I wonder how much some of there hoard may be worth. I have a new baby now that will be losing her teeth in a couple years and was thinking I needed to start asking again.
Should have grabbed all of them. Regardless of what anyone says, you could have easily turned around and sold them all at any coin store for more than face value. And too you could have put them up for sale on ebay as UNSEARCHED and really made a profit.
Lesson learned. NEVER pass up Ikes if you can get them. Regardless of mintages, they are hoarded so very few are in circulation. Folks like jbuck (but certainly not myself) compulsively grab them. You have my preeeeeshussss...
Worse case scenerio...you spent a little on gasoline...unless you walked to the bank. I would grab 'em, look through them, and spend 'em...and tell the tellers that the dollar bill is being discontinued and the IKE is back!
So today I asked my daughter, now 12, if I could buy some of the Ike's she got from the "tooth fairy" because I was going to need some for the 2 year old in a couple years. She says NO I want to keep them. Ugh. These things were always a pain to put my hands on so when I made my rounds today I asked all the banks if they had any, and if they would save them for me, one bank had a lose bag of 63, bummer is on the bag is written 108.00, so wonder if someone scored 45 dollars in silver?!?!?! I have not searched them but some have super clean and crisp edges. I picked up 60 from another bank rolled not checked, and then 2 I got from a drawer from another bank, both bicentennials. So 125.00 in one day for Ike's 2 of the banks said they will save them for me, as I have been hitting all the banks in town 2x's a week probably a pretty good chance of getting more.
I was going to save the 3 rolls and open them with my son then realized that unless someone spills the beans he still have a trip or two from the tooth fairy left in his future so I opened the rolled 60 dollars worth and no silver, oh well, still a nice haul of Ike's today.
I have asked for them before and they don't know what you are talking about, after I got the first one today it was easy to pull it out and the tellers were like, I think we have some of those in the vault
don't know that it's really worth keeping this many just for the sake of having them, back in the day would have probably hauled them to the casino and pumped them into a machine
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Posted 07/08/2012 2:23 pm
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