FYI - You Can Order Ikes!

About a month ago, I remember a topic regarding ordering Ike dollars, if it was possible. I work for one of the largest banks in the world and part of my job is to order currency from an armored car service to meet customer demands. In case anyone doesn't know, few banks keep a large cash supply, they contract an armored car service to provide cash and safe delivery of cash and coin. These armored car services are contracted through the FED to securely store massice amounts of coin and currency to meet the needs of consumers all over the country. Now, back to the Ikes! As I said, I order currency on a daily basis through an armored car service and have developed a few contacts over time. I called my best contact to see if it were possible for a bank to order IKES, or if they happened to carry any in stock. She makes a phone call over to coin services and returns my call the next day. First, she verifies that I want IKES, the larger dollar coins. I say yes and she says they have thousands of them, nobody ever orders them and "they have been collecting dust in cloth bags" for some time now. My jaw just drops! The only problem she tells me is that I have to find a bank that will order them for me because the armored car service does not deal directly witht the public. Most don't want to waste time just to have the customer return the coins after searching through them. She even goes one step further to ask if I'm looking for specific dates, something I'm looking for in particular. My goal before the end of this year is to try go through a few bags of IKES. I figure, I could either spend them, divide them up on this site or sell to a dealer for face or a little above. I'm betting there are at least a few silver dollars in there, especially if the bags are old. To answer all questions about availability, THEY CAN BE ORDERD and armored services do have them in stock!