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This is a hand selected Ike Set. I'd call this collection 50% complete due to the fact that optimally, I'd swap out half of the coins.   PCGS MS-66. Comment: I have seen three high end Ike dollars with this or similar toning. One is the sole MS-66+, a fantastic coin with the best luster on any clad Ike dollar I have ever seen. That coin is Ex: Sego. This piece is Ex: Weaver. It was his set coin until he purchased the then Sego MS-66, which is now the 66+. I'd grade the surfaces of this coin a 65+ with 66 eye appeal and + color. The coin has a little more copper in it than I can get to show up with my lighting arrangement. Edited by cc99999
11/22/2013 5:24 pm
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A toned 1972-D   PCGS MS-66 Comment: The big gash in the cheek really comes out in photos. It's there, but the eye appeal of this Ike toner is so over the top that you don't see it. I didn't see it when we chose to film it at the 2012 Whitman Baltimore Expo for CoinWeek. |
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Very nice!  If this is going to be a full 32+ coin set, someone may have to come pry me away from the computer.  |
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Looking good @CC!
But you forgot the 1971 and 73, lol.
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Nice '74. The reverse is spectacular.
The '72-D is exceedingly nice.
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Good thing this thread was you, cc99999, because if Steve Caruso started a thread titled "CC Ike Set"...   |
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Good thing this thread was you, cc99999, because if Steve Caruso started a thread titled "CC Ike Set"...
You read my mind. When I read the thread title, I was like 0_0. That '72-D is to_die_for. I'm not much an Ike fan, but a coin like that is quite capable of tilting my opinion. |
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1976-D Type 2   Comment: There are three things I don't like about this coin- they are slight. One is the spot on the reverse. There's also a thin line across Ike's forehead and a rim hit below the bell on the reverse. I sold a coin that was every bit as nice as this one for $60. It was a PCGS MS-66. I bought this MS-66+ sight unseen from a reputable seller. They, of course, hadn't seen the coin I sold to buy this. This coin grades PCGS MS-66+. The only MS-67+ that has been graded of this type was bought off of ebay for $60. It was in a MS-66 holder as well. This particular issue can come very, very nice- so always be on the lookout- you might be able to cherry a $3,000 coin for pennies on the dollar. Edited by cc99999
11/23/2013 12:31 pm
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1971-S   Grade: MS-67 Comment: For what it's worth, some of the best looking 1971-S Ike dollars have all come from this particular die. The die scratches along the base of the truncation give it all away. This particular example has not yet been submitted to CAC, but I have no doubt that it would earn a sticker. The 1971-S is the hardest blue pack Ike to find in MS-65 or above. My guess is after looking at thousands of 1971 blue packs, that the typical grade is an unsightly MS-63. This particular issue typically needs a dip in order to look pleasing to the eye. The grading services also have a tendency to over grade. Both MS-68s graded by PCGS are subpar- possibly even MS-66s. |
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awesome lookin Ikes
on a side note about toning
Does the CuNi alloy have a different colour progressing than 90% and if silver ends up black what will CuNi end up as a final colour?
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...because if Steve Caruso started a thread titled "CC Ike Set"... That is something I would love to see.  |
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@yotie- I usually don't see clad going terminal in toning. But I'm sure it happens. I saw a bag of clads that hadn't been touched in twenty-five years- they all had this greasy layer of toning and were dark.
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Most cu/ ni clad copper seems to progress extremely slowly from gold to brown to black but it moves even more slowly when it gets to gold. Some, especially 1969, go from gold to an ugly mottled appearance. This isn't true toning though since in its early stages it comes off with acetone.
For the main part clad that does tone turns golden and then stops. Check back with me in a century or two just to be sure. ;)
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@yotie- I usually don't see clad going terminal in toning. But I'm sure it happens. I saw a bag of clads that hadn't been touched in twenty-five years- they all had this greasy layer of toning and were dark. Reasons why I store my hoard in plastic rolls and coinlock bags instead of paper/canvas.  Nice set thus far. Edited by FadeToBlack
11/25/2013 7:11 pm
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