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United States
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Someone thought this Ike was worth getting graded and I thought it was worth buying. I have a different set of priorities right now that led to me buying this coin and it was cheap. I guess I'm saying that there are sometimes reasons to slab a coin that have very little to do with the dollar value of that coin.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
819 Posts |
 with Jbuck I remember dropping many of ikes in the slots |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4211 Posts |
Beautiful Ike!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1054 Posts |
Don't forget about the 1976 Type 1 Reverse examples in 66 or higher, they fetch quite a bit of money. Several thousand and up! Type 1 refers to the block style lettering on the reverse.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The less than MS coin condition is not an indication that it ever circulated.
I have never seen an Ike in circulation in my time in the 'States, and extremely few Halves, either.
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 United States
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I have never seen an Ike in circulation in my time in the 'States, and extremely few Halves, either. I got a few circulated Ikes as change when I was a kid. Just got a Kennedy halve the other day in change. |
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United States
411 Posts |
to add to this great mess,
been looking at graded 65 , 66 , 67 slab ikes.
what do you think about building a set in these grades?
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United States
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The less than MS coin condition is not an indication that it ever circulated. I assure you, the ones in my collection circulated. After all, it is how I got them.  Quote:
I have never seen an Ike in circulation in my time in the 'States, and extremely few Halves, either. If this was after around 1980, I am inclined to believe it. Fact is, they did circulate, just not on the same level as lesser denominations. |
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United States
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been looking at graded 65 , 66 , 67 slab ikes.
what do you think about building a set in these grades? I say that is what I am doing. I only have three slabbed Ikes right now, one in each of those grades. I figure it is a nice and affordable range. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I want to make one correction. Ikes did Circulate. They were used in the Casino's for many years. I have received Ikes in Change back in the 70s and 80s. Not often, but they did circulate.
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United States
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I want to make one correction. Ikes did Circulate. They were used in the Casino's for many years. I have received Ikes in Change back in the 70s and 80s. Not often, but they did circulate.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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People assume that there are lots of BU Ike dollars in FED storage. I have some doubt of this. The ones actually seen vary from slider Unc to XF-. There are a few of these sliders that are technically Unc but most are obviously slightly worn. A low end AU/ high end XF seems to be trypical. Casino coins are covered in tiny little scratches and are very unattractive. These range all the way down to cull VF. The most expensive circulating moderns tend to be Ikes. Find a nice chGem '76 type I or a '71-P in solid well struck MS-66 and you'll see what I mean. No Ike is actually common in true Gem. The '78-D is closest but there are probably no more than 1,000 examples left in the wild. There are lots graded and there are some raw ones in safety deposit boxes (I have a few myself) but that's just about it. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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United States
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Just got this one slabbed for my type set.  |
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United States
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Thank you for the insight, cladking. Quote:
Just got this one slabbed for my type set. He is lovely, jdiablo30! |
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