Post An Ike (Eisenhower Dollar)

CPC24,
Congrats on the Snipe and the Bank find
A bad day with Ike's is better than a Good day without them


I wonder if I am in the ball park Chuck.
I still have not had time
to photograph my most recent additions

Very nice, PlumCrazy814!

How long have you had that Whitman album?

Terry:

Sure hope you got a 71d on a Proof Planchet.

Looking forward to the pics!

I ended up purchasing the ARED book, Second Edition on ebay.
Paid $24.95 included Free S&H. Great book, loaded with DDO's/DDR's etc!

I got 6- "1971S Blue Ike's coming in. I hope I find a nice DDO/ or DDR or better yet a "Peg LEG"

Anything good, I'll also post some pics.




PlumbCrazy814:
Great group of Ike's you got there!

Any DDO's/DDR's in there?
Is the 71D a FEV?

Great site to check out your Ike varieties is https://www.theikegroup.org.




CPC24: Great pick-up on the 71S Silver Proof Ike for less than Silver Value!

* The 6 Blue Ike's I got coming in were also pickups from ebay. I paid around $10.80 each.

Silver closed today at $40.85 an ozt. These are worth around $12.90 each Silver Value.

jbuck: I remember when they all were ordered from the mint - it was so exciting. Father went crazy ordering the 5 per person limit in everyone's name in the family. At least I think I recall that the limit was five.
About the time I could afford to order them on my own, they would drop in value as soon as you got them and then they stopped making them.

chuckster 125: I never looked at them that closely, and now my eyesight is getting to the point that I have great difficulty even with a magnifying glass finding small details.

I will try to take a look one of these days.

We noticed the weak strikes when they first came out but didn't pay too much attention to the fine details. It was the first new big dollar in forever and the coin club people were walking around dazed. It was very exciting. We used to go to the bank and get a few and then circulate them. We did the same thing when the Bi-centenial $2 bills came out. My parents went to Jamaica during that period and my father tried to buy a trinket from a young person selling things to tourists. The young man refused the Ike because he didn't think it was real - he wanted a paper dollar.

I have a pile that I pulled from circulation and I give them to my young nieces, nephews, and grandnieces/nephews when they come to visit.

In 1971, when the first shipment of proofs arrived, I was amazed by their brilliance. $10 a piece to buy when the minimum wage was about $1.60/hr.

Then he gave one to me to keep!

So I've had it for 40 years (it is not in the pics I posted) and I am going to keep it until I die. I don't really care what happens to it after that because it will never mean as much to anyone else but me.

Plumbcrazy 814:

"BEAUTIFUL" 71 Proof Ike and knowing it was a gift from your DAD makes it all the more beautiful and precious!!

I have a couple of new entries.

First;



Get yours now!

Then we will get busy with the Second;



Bucket of fifty Ikes various dates