1972 Ike Dollar Varieties... A Lesson Learned!

So Santa brought me my first Red Book and to test it, my boyfriend dusted off a small box of .50 and $1 coins from his containers of loose change accumulated over the years.

I learned a lesson: always double check what you see in a price guide!

The listings for the 1972 Ike dollars mentions three "varieties". Well, in short, I read the description as simply one being "low relief" and two more being higher relief. He had one that really had more detail on the reverse than the other '72s, so I brought three of them home and scanned/photographed them.

I was all excited to share them here BUT, then I looked up the three varieties online, where I found the differences are not in the eagle and lunar surface, but in the tiny Earth!

So it turns out he MIGHT have two different varieties, but not the one listed as $10/$110/$1500.

Seems to me the book should show the differences, like they do for things like thick vs thin lettering, etc. DO the larger price guides do that?

Anyhoo, lesson learned, and I am going to share the images anyway.