Featured 1973 Eisenhower Dollars - Dwight Eisenhower : Father of the American Century

Phil's Coins · Jul 8, 2021

johnmilton said: ↑

It is interesting to note that Eisenhower’s reputation as president has been consistently going up since he left office. When he finished his second term in 1961, he was rated in the middle of the pack. In recent times his leadership in guiding the nation through the Cold War, a strong economy, the Interstate Highway System, Civil Rights and the early space race has enhanced his reputation. The most recent poll of historians rates him as #5.

I can remember when I was college professors made cracks like, “A taxi carrying the President pull up to the White House and nobody got out.” John F. Kennedy accused him of presiding over a “missile gap” during the 1960 presidential campaign only to find there was none when he took office.
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charley · Jul 7, 2021

The best clerk MacArthur ever had.

cplradar · Jul 7, 2021

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What did it look like before conservation?
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Mac McDonald · Jul 7, 2021

johnmilton said: ↑

It is interesting to note that Eisenhower’s reputation as president has been consistently going up since he left office.
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Indeed...as the bad of today/current becomes worse, the good of yesteryear seems even better. I liked Ike...!

Oooh_look2001 · Jul 8, 2021

cplradar said: ↑

Dwight Eisenhower : Father of the American Century

Dwight Eisenhower was a child of the 20th Century and the Father of the American Century, which crystallized at the end of World War II. Born in Denison, Texas, on October 14th 1890, and raised in the agricultural hubs of Abilene, Kansas. His father labored in a creamery that was owned by his family, and the Eisenhower boys followed their father into the business as they tried to establish their futures. Eisenhower was swept up in the new trend of healthy living that focused on community sports and was a prominent athlete playing Football, well into his West Point career. His sporting life was slowed by a career altering knee injury in 1915, at the age of 25. His appointment to West Point assured a quality education, free of charge, and his career promotion in the rising US military. Born into a world of horse and buggies, and the Iron Horse rail, he ushered in and promoted the coming space age, and laid out the US Highway system, promoting the development of modern life. We all live in the shadow of the accomplishment of Dwight Eisenhower, and his life. After his death, it would be appropriate that his portrait would adorn the last of the cartwheel circulating US dollars in 1971.

It is hard to know why exactly he chose a military career. Its not like he came from a military family and in the 1900’s, the US Military was not a prime career choice. But in coming decades would put him in the cross hairs of world history. Graduating West Point in 1915 at the age of 25 and entering the US Army as a 2nd lieutenant and being stationed to Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. There he met a 19 year old women born to a wealthy family in the meat packing business, Maime Doud. After being formally introduced, they married within 9 months on July1, 1916, and remained married until Dwight’s death in 1916.

With the start of World War I, Eisenhower was assigned the tank training center at Gettysburg, Pa. This was the state of the art military technology at the time. In 1916, Tanks had yet been employed or proven in warfare. But by the end of WWI, this would change, and Eisenhower was on the cusp of this evolution in military mobility and transportation. His formative experience in Tank warfare would color his entire career. It was only in 1907 that the US Army brought its first truck. By 1916, Eisenhower was training Tank crews for real war in Europe over WWI. By WWII, the entire theater of war was colored by tanks and airplanes, in addition to the movements of railroads for troop deployment. At the end of WWI, Eisenhower participated the 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convey from Washington DC to San Francisco. His experience here would shape his understanding of national transport and the need for military use of paved roads.

Between the wars, Eisenhower experiences would show a maturity of focus and a political adeptness that server him for the rest of his career. In 1921, oddly enough, he graduates from Infantry Tank School and is assigned to the 301st Tank Battalion. Prior to that he rose in rank to Captain, despite previously having a command position in Gettysburg. He moved on to Panama where to was influenced and trained by General Fox Conner. Conner, himself from a southern family with military history in the Civil War for the Confederacy, had spent considerable time as a commender for artillery battalions in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn before moving on to the Army Staff College and pre-war assignments in France and along the Mexican boarder. When WWI broke out, Conner was assigned the Inspectors General office in Washington, and was eventually, through the war, was assigned by General Pershing to Chief of Staff of operations.

Conner mentored Eisenhower. He was convinced that war in Europe was inevitable and that coalition command would be needed with allied forces. Conner had give deep thought to both international alliances during war, national prerogatives and ambitions, and the proper role of the military is a Democracy. This was a somewhat uniquely American and 20th Century response of the military. The US Military believed it to be doctrine that its very existence was in support of Democracy.
From Conner, Marshall and Eisenhower learned much about leadership and the conduct of war. Conner had three principles of war for a democracy that he imparted to Eisenhower and Marshall. They were:

Never fight unless you have to.

Never fight alone.

And never fight for long.

All things being equal, these principles are pretty straightforward and strategically sound. We have heard variants of them in the decades since, captured perhaps most recently in the Powell Doctrine.
( Reflections on Leadership - ROBERT GATES – Archive.org )

Conner got Eisenhower into advanced officers training school (United States Army Command and General Staff College), and Eisenhower excelled in the finishing school for officers finishing 1st in his class, despite not having the advantages of an infantry background. This put Eisenhower on the road to the upper levels of military and civilian leadership. From this point on he worked for a series of Generals including Pershing, Moseley and MacArthur. He was assigned to the “Buffalo Soldiers” regiment, the 24th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, which was seen as a slight. Eisenhower’s forward thinking about Tank warfare lead him into opposition and resistance in the officer corps. He even faced court martial for issues having to do with housing money allocations but was saved by Conner. Eisenhower not only disliked the assignment to the segregated regiment, but he rightfully ended them and integrated the armed forces in time. What is interesting is that Eisenhower coaches football for several of these assignments, including at Camp Meade. Md in 1924, and again when he was in Fort Benning assigned to the Buffalo regiment.

In 1928 he graduated the US War College. His association with Moseley and MacArthur brought Eisenhower to the upper echelons of political power of the defense establishment just prior to World War II. In 1929 he worked as a planner for the Office of Assistant Secretary of War to prepare plans for the mobilization of American industry and manpower in case of future war. In 1933 he graduated the War Industrial School. This solidified his expertise on Industry, business and the Military, both understanding the politics and the power of the American Industrial engine when applied to war.

By 1935, Ike was getting his feet wet on the international circuit. He was assigned to be a military advisor the the budding Filipino government as it moved towards independence. Along with MacArthur, from 1935 to 1939. The task strained relations with MacArthur, and crystallized his thinking about working in real politics while trying to maintain and promote his ideals of the role of the American Military as a force for Democracy and a representative of the American people. All of this would prove invaluable both during WWII and in the subsequent cold war. Through the early phases of WWII in Europe, prior to the US entry, he got vital command experience in Fort Lewis Washington, and later in made Chief of Staff of the expanded 3rd Army which won mock war games against the 2nd Army which was a training army. His double victories in these war games brought him notoriety within the Army and was promoted to brigadier general. After Perl Harbor, he was tapped by Washington and moved to Washington DC to plan the war under Marshall. In 1942 he was given the assignment of Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of War Plans. He is transferred to London and given the role of Commander of the European Theater of Operations and plans the military theater in North Africa, and later planned D-Day. By 1944 Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, and oversaw nearly all of the European theater, and the post-war rebuilding of Europe.

As important as Ike’s contribution to the victory in World War II, the heroism of the war overshadowed the even larger contribution Eisenhower made to win the peace. Eisenhower was the single most important political player in the transformation, post war, of the West into a modern industrial society that promoted technology in a transformational way that promoted global prosperity and eventually laid the foundation for the defeat of the Communist block by relatively peaceful means. Eisenhower took everything he learned in his transformation of the US military from the stirrings of tank warfare into the threshold of the Jet age, and applied it to our broader national economy.

His efforts with regard to transportation and the US Highway system, in particular, outlined his accomplishments and his transformative impact on the world at large.

Eisenhower involved himself with automotive transport early in the commercialization of gasoline alley. He participated win the transcontinental convey of 1910’s called the “Transcontinental Motor Convoy”. The misery of this convinced him that improvement was needed, not just for the civilian economy, but also for military purposes. His experience with the delicacy of railroad networks solidified his thinking on the matter. By 1939, the Worlds Fair in New York City presented a “World of Tomorrow”. One of its largest focuses, on the eve of WWII, was the predictions for a massive road network (which presented a proposal that included inter-operating automobiles to prevent accidents: A current goal of artificial intelligence and self drive cars). Eisenhower's experience and expertise at massive war time movement and organization of the new mobile army, on a global and continental scale, played out in the Eisenhower White House. Upon entering office, Eisenhower focused on a three leg mobility revolution which produced the US Highway system, the Space Program, and the planning and dominance of the Jets age with modern airports.

On June 29th, 1956, Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act which his promoted, and planned, and implemented. It reshaped the very core of American life and made possible to great suburban expansion across the country. It also caused a collapse of the inner-city cores, facilitated the great regional migration of US blacks from the south to the north, altered the shipping routes and economies of every major city and opened up the vast expansion of the US West, especially California.

Prior to the signing of the bill, the implementation and planning was placed in the hands of an old Eisenhower associate from the war, Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay. The Clay commission of 1954 developed the “Grand Plan” which was presented to Congress and which would obligate the federal government to 50 billion dollars of spending over 10 years to build is planned highway system. A huge selling point of the program was the expectation by voters of the likelihood of a nuclear exchange with the USSR and the need for citywide evacuations in such an event. It is hard for us to image today, but in 1954, people where dead serious in their belief that eventually the US would be attached my nuclear warheads from the USSR. Time and experience had taught the American public to be pessimistic about the ability to restrain dictatorships from military aggression, and nothing in their current events proved to them otherwise after suffering from a vicious Korean War, and watching genocide and political repressions through out Eastern Europe. As the massive genocides that accompanied Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism (not to mention the atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Empire) became clearer, there was little hope by the public of avoiding nuclear war. Highways was a necessity to mobilize regions and cities in the event of such catastrophes. As a result, Eisenhower’s military was embedded directly into the planning and the design of US Highways, including specifying materials and proving over 17 million miles of test driving on test roads in preparation for the highway system.

One October 4th, 1957, the success of Sputnik jolted the American public, although it was expected and calmly discussed by Eisenhower military councils. It was hardly thought of as a threat, but it motivated the public to address the coming space age, and the development of both civilian and military ICBMs. The US response was the development of President's Science Advisory Committee, which planned and forged the US Space Race, which had, until this point, already been under way by the military. It was this infrastructure of innovation and design that was inherited by John F Kennedy for the moon shot. As such, Eisenhower was the true father of the US Space program. And this presents itself with the release of the 1971 Eisenhower Dollar that features an image of the earth as seen from the moon on its reverse. The dollar is a true relic of history. It is a testament to the complex mindset of the American public that emerged from the pessimism of the 1950’s to embrace the space program as a sign of universal suffrage for all of humanity, despite the fact that the success of the Apollo program was largely innovated by scientists who were former Nazi military researchers, and card carrying members of the Nazi party. This point was made quite humorously by Bob Newhart in his skit published on the audio recording, “Behind The Buttoned Down Mind: Rocket Scientist” where he plays the character Doctor Warver Von Warner, who is asked bluntly if participation in the German missile program a matter of conviction or political expediency on his part. The line brings laughter from the crowd, to give you an idea of the nations thinking at this moment.
Eisenhower died on March 28th, 1969. By 1971, the government was ready with its new coin design, the Eisenhower Dollar. In 1973, the need for circulating US cartwheel dollars was saturated. The mint decided to only create clad dollars in mint sets without any circulatory release. Finding quality dollars for this date is relatively difficult. I purchased about 20 mint sets on ebay and broke out the dollars. I posted them all here before, and I put them in acetone baths and sent them to ANACS for grading. The grading came back, and most of them graded MS65, and a few MS 67. One was given conservation treatment by ANACS and graded MS 67. I am presenting this example here for you perusal.

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whats that tiny squiggle shaped mark on the heads side of the 1973-D eisenhower dollar coin

charley · Jul 8, 2021

counter

cplradar · Jul 8, 2021

Oooh_look2001 said: ↑

whats that tiny squiggle shaped mark on the heads side of the 1973-D eisenhower dollar coin
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bag mark

cplradar · Jul 10, 2021

https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1973-d-1/7413

Notice the bag marks on these coins and my pic is more blown up.

cplradar · Jul 10, 2021

https://www.ikegroup.info/DIVA listings/1973 D/3D-401.pdf

Bilbo1 · Jul 10, 2021

My parents told me the story that they took me to an Eisenhower campaign rally as an infant and a month later I saw him on TV and pointed to him and said “I like Ike”

cplradar · Jul 10, 2021

cladking · Jul 10, 2021

I find it interesting that the mint is minting some half dollars for circulation again. If they're out of half dollars then they must surely be out if Ikes. Ikes had less than a fifth of the mintage and are much more popular.

cplradar · Jul 10, 2021

cladking said: ↑

Ikes had less than a fifth of the mintage and are much more popular.
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they have a flood of other dollar coins.

cplradar · Jul 25, 2021

When we carried this cartwheel sized dollar, back then, it always felt like we were spending something special. That is the difference with the big coins. They were not just a form of commerce, but also wealth or savings. It is a relationship with money that we just don't have any more.

johnmilton · Jul 25, 2021

As some of you know, I collect political items also. Here are a few pieces that I have.

My late in-laws received this small medal when they attended a Republican fundraiser in 1960.

The "flasher button" (changes images as it is tilted back and forth) was introduced during the 1956 campaign. Stevenson issued the first one, but the Eisenhower campaign soon followed.

This piece was probably issued during the 1952 campaign.

It's hard to believe now, but some Republicans talked about drafting Ike for a second term in 1956 after his heart attack.

And a button with the classic slogan, "I like Ike."

None of these pieces are very rare or expensive.

Evan Saltis · Jul 28, 2021

He was a fantastic American and a fantastic president. Biggest infrastructure upgrade since the railroads for the average citizen. I won't go into the military career which was incredible in its own right.

Nice summarization and very nice coin.

Antonius Britannia · Jul 28, 2021

My Ike set, including the 73, in a Capitol Plastic holder:

Zorrbabe · Jul 28, 2021

mrweaseluv said: ↑

Very nice, I have a love of Ike's myself.. my favorite and probably the hardest one I had to come by...
1971 s (silver) SPL/FPL (straight pegleg/fading pegleg) Mine is early stage FPL. I will also post my 1971s pr69 with normal leg for comparison
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Wow!

Zorrbabe · Jul 28, 2021

cplradar said: ↑

Dwight Eisenhower : Father of the American Century

Dwight Eisenhower was a child of the 20th Century and the Father of the American Century, which crystallized at the end of World War II. Born in Denison, Texas, on October 14th 1890, and raised in the agricultural hubs of Abilene, Kansas. His father labored in a creamery that was owned by his family, and the Eisenhower boys followed their father into the business as they tried to establish their futures. Eisenhower was swept up in the new trend of healthy living that focused on community sports and was a prominent athlete playing Football, well into his West Point career. His sporting life was slowed by a career altering knee injury in 1915, at the age of 25. His appointment to West Point assured a quality education, free of charge, and his career promotion in the rising US military. Born into a world of horse and buggies, and the Iron Horse rail, he ushered in and promoted the coming space age, and laid out the US Highway system, promoting the development of modern life. We all live in the shadow of the accomplishment of Dwight Eisenhower, and his life. After his death, it would be appropriate that his portrait would adorn the last of the cartwheel circulating US dollars in 1971.

It is hard to know why exactly he chose a military career. Its not like he came from a military family and in the 1900’s, the US Military was not a prime career choice. But in coming decades would put him in the cross hairs of world history. Graduating West Point in 1915 at the age of 25 and entering the US Army as a 2nd lieutenant and being stationed to Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. There he met a 19 year old women born to a wealthy family in the meat packing business, Maime Doud. After being formally introduced, they married within 9 months on July1, 1916, and remained married until Dwight’s death in 1916.

With the start of World War I, Eisenhower was assigned the tank training center at Gettysburg, Pa. This was the state of the art military technology at the time. In 1916, Tanks had yet been employed or proven in warfare. But by the end of WWI, this would change, and Eisenhower was on the cusp of this evolution in military mobility and transportation. His formative experience in Tank warfare would color his entire career. It was only in 1907 that the US Army brought its first truck. By 1916, Eisenhower was training Tank crews for real war in Europe over WWI. By WWII, the entire theater of war was colored by tanks and airplanes, in addition to the movements of railroads for troop deployment. At the end of WWI, Eisenhower participated the 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convey from Washington DC to San Francisco. His experience here would shape his understanding of national transport and the need for military use of paved roads.

Between the wars, Eisenhower experiences would show a maturity of focus and a political adeptness that server him for the rest of his career. In 1921, oddly enough, he graduates from Infantry Tank School and is assigned to the 301st Tank Battalion. Prior to that he rose in rank to Captain, despite previously having a command position in Gettysburg. He moved on to Panama where to was influenced and trained by General Fox Conner. Conner, himself from a southern family with military history in the Civil War for the Confederacy, had spent considerable time as a commender for artillery battalions in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn before moving on to the Army Staff College and pre-war assignments in France and along the Mexican boarder. When WWI broke out, Conner was assigned the Inspectors General office in Washington, and was eventually, through the war, was assigned by General Pershing to Chief of Staff of operations.

Conner mentored Eisenhower. He was convinced that war in Europe was inevitable and that coalition command would be needed with allied forces. Conner had give deep thought to both international alliances during war, national prerogatives and ambitions, and the proper role of the military is a Democracy. This was a somewhat uniquely American and 20th Century response of the military. The US Military believed it to be doctrine that its very existence was in support of Democracy.
From Conner, Marshall and Eisenhower learned much about leadership and the conduct of war. Conner had three principles of war for a democracy that he imparted to Eisenhower and Marshall. They were:

Never fight unless you have to.

Never fight alone.

And never fight for long.

All things being equal, these principles are pretty straightforward and strategically sound. We have heard variants of them in the decades since, captured perhaps most recently in the Powell Doctrine.
( Reflections on Leadership - ROBERT GATES – Archive.org )

Conner got Eisenhower into advanced officers training school (United States Army Command and General Staff College), and Eisenhower excelled in the finishing school for officers finishing 1st in his class, despite not having the advantages of an infantry background. This put Eisenhower on the road to the upper levels of military and civilian leadership. From this point on he worked for a series of Generals including Pershing, Moseley and MacArthur. He was assigned to the “Buffalo Soldiers” regiment, the 24th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, which was seen as a slight. Eisenhower’s forward thinking about Tank warfare lead him into opposition and resistance in the officer corps. He even faced court martial for issues having to do with housing money allocations but was saved by Conner. Eisenhower not only disliked the assignment to the segregated regiment, but he rightfully ended them and integrated the armed forces in time. What is interesting is that Eisenhower coaches football for several of these assignments, including at Camp Meade. Md in 1924, and again when he was in Fort Benning assigned to the Buffalo regiment.

In 1928 he graduated the US War College. His association with Moseley and MacArthur brought Eisenhower to the upper echelons of political power of the defense establishment just prior to World War II. In 1929 he worked as a planner for the Office of Assistant Secretary of War to prepare plans for the mobilization of American industry and manpower in case of future war. In 1933 he graduated the War Industrial School. This solidified his expertise on Industry, business and the Military, both understanding the politics and the power of the American Industrial engine when applied to war.

By 1935, Ike was getting his feet wet on the international circuit. He was assigned to be a military advisor the the budding Filipino government as it moved towards independence. Along with MacArthur, from 1935 to 1939. The task strained relations with MacArthur, and crystallized his thinking about working in real politics while trying to maintain and promote his ideals of the role of the American Military as a force for Democracy and a representative of the American people. All of this would prove invaluable both during WWII and in the subsequent cold war. Through the early phases of WWII in Europe, prior to the US entry, he got vital command experience in Fort Lewis Washington, and later in made Chief of Staff of the expanded 3rd Army which won mock war games against the 2nd Army which was a training army. His double victories in these war games brought him notoriety within the Army and was promoted to brigadier general. After Perl Harbor, he was tapped by Washington and moved to Washington DC to plan the war under Marshall. In 1942 he was given the assignment of Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of War Plans. He is transferred to London and given the role of Commander of the European Theater of Operations and plans the military theater in North Africa, and later planned D-Day. By 1944 Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, and oversaw nearly all of the European theater, and the post-war rebuilding of Europe.

As important as Ike’s contribution to the victory in World War II, the heroism of the war overshadowed the even larger contribution Eisenhower made to win the peace. Eisenhower was the single most important political player in the transformation, post war, of the West into a modern industrial society that promoted technology in a transformational way that promoted global prosperity and eventually laid the foundation for the defeat of the Communist block by relatively peaceful means. Eisenhower took everything he learned in his transformation of the US military from the stirrings of tank warfare into the threshold of the Jet age, and applied it to our broader national economy.

His efforts with regard to transportation and the US Highway system, in particular, outlined his accomplishments and his transformative impact on the world at large.

Eisenhower involved himself with automotive transport early in the commercialization of gasoline alley. He participated win the transcontinental convey of 1910’s called the “Transcontinental Motor Convoy”. The misery of this convinced him that improvement was needed, not just for the civilian economy, but also for military purposes. His experience with the delicacy of railroad networks solidified his thinking on the matter. By 1939, the Worlds Fair in New York City presented a “World of Tomorrow”. One of its largest focuses, on the eve of WWII, was the predictions for a massive road network (which presented a proposal that included inter-operating automobiles to prevent accidents: A current goal of artificial intelligence and self drive cars). Eisenhower's experience and expertise at massive war time movement and organization of the new mobile army, on a global and continental scale, played out in the Eisenhower White House. Upon entering office, Eisenhower focused on a three leg mobility revolution which produced the US Highway system, the Space Program, and the planning and dominance of the Jets age with modern airports.

On June 29th, 1956, Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act which his promoted, and planned, and implemented. It reshaped the very core of American life and made possible to great suburban expansion across the country. It also caused a collapse of the inner-city cores, facilitated the great regional migration of US blacks from the south to the north, altered the shipping routes and economies of every major city and opened up the vast expansion of the US West, especially California.

Prior to the signing of the bill, the implementation and planning was placed in the hands of an old Eisenhower associate from the war, Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay. The Clay commission of 1954 developed the “Grand Plan” which was presented to Congress and which would obligate the federal government to 50 billion dollars of spending over 10 years to build is planned highway system. A huge selling point of the program was the expectation by voters of the likelihood of a nuclear exchange with the USSR and the need for citywide evacuations in such an event. It is hard for us to image today, but in 1954, people where dead serious in their belief that eventually the US would be attached my nuclear warheads from the USSR. Time and experience had taught the American public to be pessimistic about the ability to restrain dictatorships from military aggression, and nothing in their current events proved to them otherwise after suffering from a vicious Korean War, and watching genocide and political repressions through out Eastern Europe. As the massive genocides that accompanied Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism (not to mention the atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Empire) became clearer, there was little hope by the public of avoiding nuclear war. Highways was a necessity to mobilize regions and cities in the event of such catastrophes. As a result, Eisenhower’s military was embedded directly into the planning and the design of US Highways, including specifying materials and proving over 17 million miles of test driving on test roads in preparation for the highway system.

One October 4th, 1957, the success of Sputnik jolted the American public, although it was expected and calmly discussed by Eisenhower military councils. It was hardly thought of as a threat, but it motivated the public to address the coming space age, and the development of both civilian and military ICBMs. The US response was the development of President's Science Advisory Committee, which planned and forged the US Space Race, which had, until this point, already been under way by the military. It was this infrastructure of innovation and design that was inherited by John F Kennedy for the moon shot. As such, Eisenhower was the true father of the US Space program. And this presents itself with the release of the 1971 Eisenhower Dollar that features an image of the earth as seen from the moon on its reverse. The dollar is a true relic of history. It is a testament to the complex mindset of the American public that emerged from the pessimism of the 1950’s to embrace the space program as a sign of universal suffrage for all of humanity, despite the fact that the success of the Apollo program was largely innovated by scientists who were former Nazi military researchers, and card carrying members of the Nazi party. This point was made quite humorously by Bob Newhart in his skit published on the audio recording, “Behind The Buttoned Down Mind: Rocket Scientist” where he plays the character Doctor Warver Von Warner, who is asked bluntly if participation in the German missile program a matter of conviction or political expediency on his part. The line brings laughter from the crowd, to give you an idea of the nations thinking at this moment.
Eisenhower died on March 28th, 1969. By 1971, the government was ready with its new coin design, the Eisenhower Dollar. In 1973, the need for circulating US cartwheel dollars was saturated. The mint decided to only create clad dollars in mint sets without any circulatory release. Finding quality dollars for this date is relatively difficult. I purchased about 20 mint sets on ebay and broke out the dollars. I posted them all here before, and I put them in acetone baths and sent them to ANACS for grading. The grading came back, and most of them graded MS65, and a few MS 67. One was given conservation treatment by ANACS and graded MS 67. I am presenting this example here for you perusal.

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How do you get a featured article ? I want to write an article but I wanna make sure people see it

Zorrbabe · Jul 28, 2021

Antonius Britannia said: ↑

My Ike set, including the 73, in a Capitol Plastic holder:
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That’s sexy collection of Ike’s!

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