The Crown Jewel Of My Eisenhower Dollar Registry Set... So Far.

Well, I certainly learned something about Ikes today. I appreciate them more, although I always did like the Moon images, being a lunatic coin collector.

......Uhhhh, OK.

I fully understand your skepticism and appreciate the humorous barbs. I could, of course, be completely incorrect about the whole messy business.

I do not have your faith in the infallibility of experts in ANY field, and I understand their need to make discoveries in their fields. This allows them to sometimes see patterns where there are none, where it seems to make sense simply due to the desire for it to make sense.

If the design was originally supposed to have a representation of a spacecraft there would be no reason to remove it for subsequent dies.

The coincidence of two microscopic curvy lines being similar to a design on a mission badge was enough to trigger "Discovery!" by your expert. The problem is that in the scene depicted on the coin, the eagle is symbolizing both America and the spacecraft landing on the lunar surface, so re-entry con-trails would in fact be several days in the future and in any case be entirely invisible at the scale portrayed on the coin. Add to this that Gasparro was not in the habit of trying to capture tiny details on circulation coins of that period (look at the almost total lack of detail on Eisenhower's image) and it really makes very little sense for this mark to be anything but an unintentional die nick, not a collectible variety.

Again, in my opinion.

Wow, now that is super cool! Thanks form sharing!

Awesome coin!