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jbuck- this is the exact coin I emailed Stewart about a few days ago because I thought it could possibly be a proof planchet specimen. You purchased this from James Sego, correct? I believe he described it as having BLAST LUSTER. Correct.  Quote:He has another one listed that looks almost identical: 132619989027 I had actually found that one first. When I find something I always look at the other items to see if they have something else I may want. Quote:
Can you take a picture of the coin in direct light to see how it compares with those 71-Ds I posted? Good eye on that one, jbuck. I might give it a try, but no promises. I tried to get better photos of the 1976 hoping that the tone would show better, but they all look much worse. Just about everything I have photographed looks better in hand.  Quote:
I was actually a little bit saddened when I went back to check on it, and it was "no longer available." I have to say that makes me feel good and bad at the same time. Good that my skills are improving, bad that I robbed you of an opportunity.  |
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Here's an Ike I got in change a few weeks ago (It wasn't offered, I had to ask for it). It's been around for a while, but I guess there's still a few out there circulating.   |
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Max,
Very cool find congratulations,you are right you can occasionally find them in banks and even had stations but it is getting harder and harder
Stewart
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Here's an Ike I got in change a few weeks ago (It wasn't offered, I had to ask for it). It's been around for a while, but I guess there's still a few out there circulating. Good to see that one here!  |
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Spotted a guy paying with a large silver coin today at a gas station. Since I was next in line I asked if I could see the large coin the gentleman in front of me payed with. Ended up getting this as change today as a result.  |
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Well, now that is cool, MontCollector. You actually witnessed an Ike circulate in 2018! FYI: Coin Week just published an article on 1971 Eisenhower dollars, and they mentioned proof planchet Ikes from Denver. They refer to them as struck on "highly polished planchets." I really hope this variety becomes well known and established in the future. https://www.facebook.com/9589210910...26408804106/ |
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Spotted a guy paying with a large silver coin today at a gas station. Since I was next in line I asked if I could see the large coin the gentleman in front of me payed with. Ended up getting this as change today as a result. Excellent!  Quote:FYI: Coin Week just published an article on 1971 Eisenhower dollars, and they mentioned proof planchet Ikes from Denver. They refer to them as struck on "highly polished planchets." I really hope this variety becomes well known and established in the future. Very nice! |
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Wow - who would have thought - an Ike in circulation just three years shy of 50 years after being made. Nice find MontCollector
How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Nice find MontCollector! You hardly ever find those in circulation!
Errers and Varietys.
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Nothing interesting about this one except the story. Got it from my mother-in-law in Thailand a few years ago. She worked in accounting at the US Embassy for 20+ years and probably got it as some form of payment. So this one circulated from Philadelphia to Bangkok and then back to the US via me.  |
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Amen Darth!...Proof Planchet 71's used to be a hot topic with Rob Erzerman...he loved those coins as much as the true "Very Early Die State" specimens. Written up in the big IKE Book, "PP's" are freakin awesome in hand..once you've seen one, watchout...very addicting...Rob, and the other founding fathers, did rough math to discuss just how rare these puppies are..I don't have my book handy, but, going to get it out, and re-read. The strange thing about these also is many were made on very worn dies---BUT, the lack of annealing chatter marks, "" 5 to 10% of 1971-D Ikes show remarkably proof-like surfaces on both sides, including the top surface of the rims and minor devices, independent of die state. There is also a remarkable absence or near-absence of planchet chatter, the multitudinous minor defects for which a loupe may or may not be needed, which are caused by the violent banging experienced by the circulation planchets as they cool off in the huge annealing drums while being kept suspended by baffles (proof planchets are annealed on a slowly moving belt and are then burnished in a vat of moving oblong steel balls). ====== http://ikegroup.info/prototype.htm |
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Just a regular '72 that was passed down from my father's collection.   |
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What's up with the scar on Ike's eyebrow? I honestly never noticed it before I posted my image above, I thought it was weird that Ike took a hit exactly along the eyebrow, and then @stewart's coin has the same thing! MontCollector's has it too. I guess obviously it's part of the design?  |
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Yeah. It's part of the design.
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Just got 22 of them from my local bank
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