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Ikes And SBA Dollars For Face Value From Bank

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 Posted 07/24/2011  12:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rawmeat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'll try to post pictures later (but I can only post pics from my phone right now, so they look horrible), but I received about 50 dollars worth of SBA from a bag of dollar coins from my credit union. Almost all of them are 1979 (a couple are S - mint, but don't appear to be proofs). Anyway, from the 79P mintmark ones I have the following:

1. Some that appear to be normal rim
2. Some that appear to have a wider rim -- in that it is noticeable, but not massively so
3. One that has a really wide rim and almost looks like it was struck off center because it's got about a tenth of a mm of flat planchet around the bottom after the "rim"

So my questions are: (A) is that #3 above the only actual wide rim? (B) are the #2's above the actual wide rims and that #3 is some kind of error -- I guess the question is just, how noticeable is the "wide rim" -- because I seem to have a lot of them.
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 Posted 07/24/2011  01:17 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Respect the Eisenhower dollar!


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Picked up 90 Ikes today from my bank. Pulled the 72's and found two talon heads. Yahoo-I Like Ike.
Very nice!
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Spend them! And watch the young cashiers saying what the heck is this? I must say the SBA and the Ike really are the two worst coins the US Mint ever produced.Both very ugly!
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 Posted 07/24/2011  10:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bowfin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Spend them! And watch the young cashiers saying what the heck is this? I must say the SBA and the Ike really are the two worst coins the US Mint ever produced.Both very ugly!


Can't disagree there. But at least the Ike is a cool ugly... Sort of...
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 Posted 07/24/2011  8:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add junior e to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
When I was a kid my first real job was pumping gas. My check was about $25 a week and I would cash it and ask for the new Eisenhower silver dollars. I was up to about $500 worth and I spent them at the car dealer to buy my first car. They were all so minty that they gave them away as a promotion for taking a test drive. I wish I still had them now.
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Ignore the width of the rims because centering of the dies can cause that to be misleading. look at the distance of the bottom of the 1 to the rim. If it is only about half the width of the upright of the 1 away form the rim it is the near date/wide rim variety. If it is the far date/narrow rim variety it will be more than the width of the upright of the 1 away. Almost 1 1/2 times the width.
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