Post An Ike (Eisenhower Dollar)

Nice IKES..for you newbies in IKELAND, remember, 4,265,234 1971-S Proof Eisenhower dollars were minted at San Francisco(they cost $10.00, which was a LOT of money back then!!). According to the Ike book, roughly 40% struck were so-called "Peg Legs", so, they are fun to collect and find, for sure(it's really cool to make a set of 10, with the leg dissapearing more and more on each coin!), but, they are not uncommon. There is a handful of severely over-polished die strikes, where the leg in the R looks sawed off...those are rare, and worth looking for. Online pics can be tough...I've bought many hopeful sawed-off 71's, only to get them in hand, and, it wasn't one, due to mediocre photo's hiding the frosting in that small spot.
Get a copy of the Big Ike Book, Lulu Press, as it has superb writing on all the Peg Legs, and the technical story behind them. To date, to qualify, if you sent into the Ike Group for a DIVA card, the bottom of the R's lowest leg must be smaller than where it meets the crossbar above...any taper wider will disqualify it.

Wow, a peg leg. Here is a close up of that last Ike I posted.




The funny thing is I had found a peg leg on one of my other Ikes, it's a 1971-S silver business strike. Not sure why I didn't look at the new 1971-S proof. Here's a pic of the other one. So, I have two peg leggers now. Cool.

Nice purchase, batboy.

None of my 1976 type 2 Ikes have peg legs. All of my 1976 type 1 are peggers (P, D, and S mint). Ok, I've gotten most of my info from "The Ike Group" website. I went back there to have another look. I now believe you are correct about the business strike 1976-D type 1 not being an intentional peg leg, so I stand corrected. They have a chart that shows the BS 1976-D type 1 being rare to have a peg leg.

1976 type 1 peg leg.

UP-DATE

On the IKE I bought last week.

In hand I got this picture.

This isn't a purchase of mine, but I posted the image in a "best cameo" thread. I thought it should be posted here too because we all need to .......

I did some touch ups in photo shop to make the deep cameo pop out of the screen. Enjoy!

To Cascade..I'm not on here as much as I used to be, that's all. I DO check in and see what's new in this forum, and others. IKES will always be a favorite coin, as back in 2007, when "seeing things", I got a hold of Rob Ezerman, and, he explained clashed IKES to me, and, mentored me along for many years, putting up with my dyslexic brain, and rants and raves of TPG's(this was BEFORE the FEV was a legitimate Variety!). Rob's contribution to the IKE world, and, the 5 others who took so much time to write the "Big Book"(Lulu Press), really put Eisenhower dollars in the spotlight...a brilliant thinker, Rob, who is unafraid to work any theory, as long as there is evidence to throw on the wall while debating it. The torch is passing now to others, like Steve P., and Tom K, and the "Old-Timers" who chime in on the Ikegroup.info forum.
Still new finds to be made...I always hunt for 1971-P Peg Legs(Never found 1 yet), 1972-D RPM(none), and a 1971-S Prorotype(last 1 found was off ebay in 2014 by an amateur, who didn't know what he had until a year later..he bought the coin because "it looked nice"(about a 10k-20k IKE, if sold properly)...my dream IKE is to find a 1971-P FEV...none found yet..their lurking.