Post an Eisenhower (Ikes)

This past weekend I made a couple of discoveries hiding in plain sight within my own collection. The veil came off as I was taking close-up shots of some of my slabbed Ikes (planning to do them all . . . . ). First up is an unattributed 1971-D PCGS MS65 "Friendly Eagle" variety! Not sure how I missed it the first time around. To me it appeared to be a late die state strike, so I consulted with Brian Vaile of the Ike Group, and he agreed. Not bad for $16.00.



Then, after photographing the reverse of this 1974 (PCGS MS65) I noticed extra moon craters. One is located on the "E" of ONE, and the other is inside the crater just above the second "L" of DOLLAR. I believe these to be caused by metal fragments since the edges are sharp and delineated. What a cool discovery! Check and recheck your coins, fellas. You never know what you might uncover!





Finally, a dramatic example of a 1971-D Ike struck on a proof planchet. In direct light, the coin presents as an even, stark white GEM, and the bust appears more glossy than the fields. With diffused light, the semi reverse proof-like look comes out. I've had this coin for a bit, but just got it under the Canon last week. Seller snap-shot photos also provided for an in-hand look. It's an odd but gorgeous duck.

 

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That 1974 with the extra craters is pretty cool. It reminded me of a 1976-D T1 I have with a struck through date. The strike through looks like filet knife, it's pretty cool. It's fairly deep and round going down into it.

 

Just realized that I posted the wrong obverse/reverse image for that proof planchet 71-D Ike in my previous post. Here it is:

 

New registry upgrade- a truly exquisite 1974-P, worthy of the CAC™ green bean.

 

latest upgrade......

 

Two new Ikequasitions this week. First is an exquisitely toned 1971-S. I call it "Cloudy Day," but "Troubled Skies" may suit it just as well. It comes with a TrueView™ image, and Phil decided to shoot it to produce a bright field appearance. In this case, axial lighting is used in such a way as to produce bright devices against a bright field. I love the result of this approach, although I haven't tried it yet myself. It graded 67 without a cameo designation, no doubt due to the toning obscuring this. We all know the silver proof Ikes have some degree of cameo contrast.

I took my own close-up shots to create a composite slab image, but my setup "sees" slight cameo contrast with dark fields. The color is more gray-blue- almost purple in some areas. The coin does look like its TV image in-hand, but only in direct light, and it's hard to look at for more than a second or two, ya know? This is why I prefer TrueView™ images to be be direct light glamour shots- so I can look at the coin this way without going blind.



Composite image with my own obverse/reverse shots. Other than a direct light view, this is its in-hand appearance.

Next up is a variety that I didn't even know existed on a 1973-S silver proof - a Tripled Die Obverse! The seller I purchased this from said he sent it in with a batch to be designated as a DDO FS-101, but PCGS disagreed with him. Instead, they correctly attributed this as a TDO. Check out the close-up of IGWT.

 

Both those are nice.
Dig the TDO.

 

Only one I own ipaid stupid money for it but I like this Ike

 

Wild Bill what does your 74-s slab say? I have one I shared on the previous page in the OGP that has very similar toning...

 

I only own a few Ikes. Basic years and mm's that fill my Whitman folder and then 3 1972P T2s that I pulled from rolls that the bank got.


Don't have a picture of the third.

 

Another toned PF 66 I picked up two weeks ago:

 

Here is my 74 s silver Ike. The lighting gives it a bit of yellow highlights that are not actually on the coin (I.e. no toning) but pretty clean for such a big coin!

 

Got this last night at coin club. ANACS usually tears them out of the Government holder but this time they didn’t. Sometimes they do not when someone bulk submits like this one.

 

Great , I too like the IKES . The last real Dollar size coin .