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Valued Member
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I've seen brown Ike boxes that have a gold seal and some have a silver seal. Why is that ? What's the history behind it? Does anyone know, all I've seen is that the brown Ike boxes have a gold seal in them but I've seen some on eBay have silver seal instead of gold. First image is gold seal and the second is the silver seal in the brown Ike proof box.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 . Maybe the white balance is out of adjustment on their camera? John1 
( I'm no pro, it's just my humble opinion )
Searched 6.5 +/- Million Cents Since 1971
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not sure what I'm looking at. Is that a coin? When you say Ike are you talking about an Eisenhower dollar AKA an Ike? Edited by jasper62
08/18/2021 05:03 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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That is the embossed seal on the box it self. John1 ( I'm no pro, it's just my humble opinion )
Searched 6.5 +/- Million Cents Since 1971
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Valued Member
United States
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Yes it's the embossed seal on the back a brown proof Ike box I realize that.
I've seen Ike boxes that have a gold seal and some have silver seal why is that ? I'm looking for any information on that.
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United States
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They have always been gold, at least all four I have are gold.
As suggested above, the differences in the photo above is white balance. Just compare how dark the brown is in the first photo compared to the second.
If you actually have two different ones in hand, photograph them together so we can see the difference. Perhaps the gold has faded?
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Valued Member
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I'm this pic you'll see gold, silver, silver  I really dislike how to upload images so hopefully this pic u can see all three seals I hope. |
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The two silver boxes are 1971 S
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Very interesting! I do not believe I have ever seen silver before. I am not sure if it is just simple fading as it looks to be original silver. Hopefully someone else will know more about these.
What date is the gold one?
I may have to pull my boxes out of storage now. Perhaps my memory is not as good as I think it is. The Ikes are in my Dansco and have been since the 1990s, but I kept all my brown boxes and blue envelopes.
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Valued Member
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All the gold seal ikes are from 1971-1974. The date that was in the gold seal box was also 1971s just like the two silver seal boxes.  Almost kinda regardless of the coins and date what the silver seal means and history is what I want to know. But at the same time maybe the date of the coin has something to do with it so the coin matters as well. |
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I was beginning to think that the 1971 were silver, while the 1972, 1973, and 1974 are gold. However, if you say you have 1971 in both, that would not be correct. I could be that the earlier releases were silver and then they changed to gold. I do not think there is any other real significance to the difference though. Regardless, a new Ike mystery intrigues me!  |
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Possibly long term exposure to uv or fluorescent lighting have faded some of these decal/seals over the decades?
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Valued Member
United States
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I haven't been able to find any info on a brown Ike box having a silver seal.
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Valued Member
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Eh I feel it would be pretty inconsistent you'd still be able to see some of the gold seal. Clearly in the pic there's a silver and a gold next to each other only ever seen two silver seals.
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New Member
United States
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I have been researching these boxes for a while.
The large silver seal boxes are rare.
I have just received information from ANACS about my boxes and that's was the word I received. Rare the 1971-s brown Ike's came in these boxes.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention I have a ike discussion group on Facebook and many ike lovers share information on these beautiful coins.
Feel free to contact me anytime.
Love to talk Ike's.
Thanks and good luck
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Hey @ikeman60 aka James it's Matthew from Facebook I posted here so I could see if anyone knew anything awhile back haha
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Posted 08/18/2021 04:59 am
