Eisonhower Dollar?!?!?!

What happened here?
its from a bank. is it gold maybe?
i tried to get a better picture, but i couldnt, sry

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

btw, it took me like 20 mins to get those pics up, i want answers now, lol

 

Maybe someone doing electrolosis plating ?

 

That would be my guess. Perhaps Littleton, the TV Coin Vault guys, or someone like them who thnks gold plating coins is "cool".

Occasionally silver will tarnish to a golden color, but the 1972 Philadelphia Ikes are ordinary cu-ni clads.

 

so do any of u think its gold?

 

No chance of that my friend.

 

Some of my Ike dollars are tarnished like that, too.
SM

 

dang, take away my hopes
so what again is it?

 

I think it may be gold. Perhaps it is solid gold. You may have true treasure there Spider.

 

Perhaps its gold plated? I have a mint set of 1996 gold plated coins

 

the rims or edges r all gold
no layers i see

 

Look at this first: http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/eisenhower_dollars/1972_one_dollar.htm

 

Coin Vault, HSN, QVC and other television sellers's have plated coins and sold them at premiums to "newbies" and other uniformed buyers. There is no collector's value to plating a coin. No 1972 IKE's were ever minted out of gold. Sorry, but what you have is either a severly tarnished IKE or a plated gold IKE worth only as much as you deem it is.

See if your coin has the following specs:
http://www.coinfacts.com/silver_dollars/eisenhower_dollars/1972_one_dollar.htm

If it does, you have a plated IKE.

 

im thinking $23 thousand, who wants to buy it now?

 

Perhaps it is a mint error. I am quite fond of optimism.

 

i might be able to get a weight on it if i helps from school

 

You may have a very rare specimen. Wont possibly know until you can get it weighed.

 

GDJMSP sir I don't believe you can be so sure of that as you don't have the coin in hand. Maybe a very high ranking mint official wanted to have some fun with excess gold that was around the mint back then and decided to make a few pure gold Eisenhower dollars.

 

OK, Spider... send it to one of the grading services, spend the money to get it graded and slabbed... but, you'd be wasting your money.

Gold plated pieces like this turn up all the time. It's worth a buck + about one cent worth of gold, if that...