Post An Ike (Eisenhower Dollar)

@stewart

HA!

Well, in that case, I'll have to re-consider how I regard that Ike.

cc99999

Here is a close up of The Motto, I sent a full size version to your email.

Terry

cc99999,

Good Eyes, Thank You, I completely missed that.
Just reminds me to keep my head clear and look for what is there and not what I expect to see.
Pulled up the Ike Group article on the Partial Peg Leg Proofs.
http://www.ikegroup.org/PPLSEPT08.htm

And it looks like this one is on the extreme end of the scale. I have not had the opportunity to see one in hand with that level of fading.
That is why I love this place, What one of us misses there is a good chance someone else will notice.

Thank You Again

Terry

Stewart - I was reading one of the new CDN/greysheet articles on modern coins.
They mentioned that very few Ike dollars have graded MS67. What are your thoughts
on this. And where do you think high grade Ike can be found?

there frankly might not be any more than 50-100 MS-67 business strike Ikes in existence. Several of the top-pop 67 Ikes are over graded and I think this will become well established by the end of the year if not early next year. The Ike series is the hardest coin series of the 20th century to find in MS-65 and above. It's a matter of the technology, the composition of the coin, and the size of the beast.

I was fairly young when these were minted and shipped and may have not known all the ways they were available But I thought all "S" Ikes in 1971 and 1972 were either Proofs in plastic cases in brown boxes or Uncirculated in cellophane in Blue envelopes (hence "Blue Pack"). I don't recall blue pack "Tubes". I don't recall ever hearing the "S" coins in this series ever being considered as business strikes. I do recall the Proofs selling for $10 and the UNC's selling for $3.

cc99999

The Ike series is the hardest coin series of the 20th century to find in MS-65 and above. It's a matter of the technology, the composition of the coin, and the size of the beast.

I could not agree with you more, My personal thoughts are that they had to re-learn minting of Dollar size coins since none had been minted since the Peace dollar. And the change in metal composition to harder metals that were very hard on the dies made for some very interesting varieties. I think that is why my favorite years of the Ike series are 71 and 72. There was a whole lot of experimenting going on at all of the mints just to get these huge coins out in some type of presentable condition.

Along with Gasparro's enjoyment of being mischievous with the design features of the Eisenhower.
Like the Con Trail on the reverse of the 1971 D FEV (Friendly Eagle Variety) and the what some think may be a very small golf flag just above and right of the designers initials on the reverse.
On some Proofs the small golf flag looks more like a man on the moon to me. But who knows the research continues on this series.
I am sure it will be figured out in time.

PlumCrazy814,
You are absolutely right about the "Unc's" Blue Packs and "Proof's" Brown Box designations on the 40% Silver Eisenhower's, Some where along the line the Unc versions also picked up the "Business Strike" designation amongst Ike enthusiast.

Also you are right there were no tubes of Blue Pack or Brown Box Proofs. I am not sure who did the packaging of the brown box proofs. But the 1971 Unc Blue Pack Ike's were shipped from San Fransisco across country in bags to where they packaged them in the plastic sleeves and then into the well known Blue envelopes. That is why it is so very hard to find 1971 Blue Packs that are not all beat up.
Then in 1972 they began shipping the Unc Ike's in protective tubes to be packaged.

Terry

That is better than none.