Ikes And SBA Dollars For Face Value From Bank

Ths SBA just spend but I would save some of the Ikes

I agree the SBA coin has to be just about the ugliest coin this country ever minted.

Ive actually gotten a couple SBA dollars in change as quarters.

I keep all Ikes that are not totally mashed. They are getting harder and harder to find. Yes, a ton were minted, but they are steadily going away. Most bank tellers around here dont even know what one is, even when I show them the one I carry. They think its a half. So yeah, keep 'em.

SW99, as pointed out, they are most likely NOT silver. None of the silver Ikes were meant for circulation (aside from those ultra rare mistakes mentioned). They were all collector coins. Anything meant for circulation were simple clad coins. You might possibly happen upon a silver if you were REALLY lucky, but the odds are pretty high against that.

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.

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!

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.