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Friend's Coin Hoard, Part 1: Ike Dollars.

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good work so far Brand - sure is a lot of Ikes

after you get through them all, maybe you should start spending them (right jbuck? )
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Spending them is a great idea for the heavily circulated ones. Especially the bicentennial Ikes, people just really like those.
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good work so far Brand - sure is a lot of Ikes

Thanks. It turned out to be way more than my initial guess of 200-300. Once all the bags were emptied and sorted, the hoard ended up at over 500 Eisenhower dollars. Somewhere between 25-30 pounds of metal!
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Spending them is a great idea for the heavily circulated ones. Especially the bicentennial Ikes, people just really like those.


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It turned out to be way more than my initial guess of 200-300. Once all the bags were emptied and sorted, the hoard ended up at over 500 Eisenhower dollars. Somewhere between 25-30 pounds of metal!
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I currently have over 600 Ikes on hand and am still adding to them.

Is this an unusual quantity?

Truth.
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I currently have over 600 Ikes on hand and am still adding to them.

If you would like to get your Ike hoard up over 1000, let me know. I am liquidating them very slowly on ebay, but bulk deals are a possibility.
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I currently have over 600 Ikes on hand and am still adding to them.



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Is this an unusual quantity?
Maybe. But, nice!


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As mentioned, the Friendly Eagle Variety is often overlooked. It would be on the 1971-D, reverse. Look carefully at the eagle's face. Most have an extra line over the eye, making the eagle look angry. The FEV is missing this line, hence the name "friendly eagle".

In a large lot like this, you should have at least 1 FEV, I would think. I have found 13, 4 from Ikes from searching customer dumps at the bank, and 9 from large lots of Ikes.
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Thanks for the reminder. =)

There was only a single 1971-D in the hoard. I would say that the mix is 20:1 in favor of Philadelphia. We are in eastern Pennsylvania, so the coin mix here tends to overwhelmingly favor Philly.
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