America's FIRST dollar coins!!

I'm so excited. At my coin club auction tonight I bid on and won a set of 3 of America's first dollars!!!

Woooohoooo. I got it for a GREAT price. They are incased in plastic so they are uncirc though there may be a little wear. Anyway, I'll post pics in a bit when I get the camera out.....I just had to share!!!

 

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So what are they? Flowing Hair and Draped Bust Dollar?

If there is wear that would make them circulated.

 

Are we talking old Spanish 8 reales or a Colonial Thaler ? Traci

 

Sorry for the drama of making you wait, but this absolutely Cracked me up. I bought it for 3 bucks (face value....plastic container free). The coins aren't even unc.

Look at that title though......America's First Dollar Coins. Gotta hand it to the brilliance of marketers (a little research might have helped).

LOL They were only off by 175 years or so... :mouth:

 

Maybe the coins belonged to someone named America. (My great-grandmother's middle name was America.)

 

LOL Gotta love em.... Traci

 

Nice...maybe they meant America's first clad dollars. :rolling:

 

Good one.

 

Nice!

 

sounded like an Ebay lead.

 

That is funny. I wonder what would happen if we put this on ebay.

LOL

I wouldn't do it without an explanation that it is faulty, but it would be funny.

bob

 

You know...looking at the picture, all the coins are from their first year of production. The Ike is 1971, the SBA 1979, and the Sac 2000. I wonder if that's what they mean by "first dollar coins."

 

Yes, I'm sure that is it, but come on, look at that title!!! It is more that just a wee bit dishonest to put that title on it in my opinion.

It is a fun conversation piece since I got it at face though....

 

I agree, it's not the most honest thing in the world. I'd like to think that it was written without thinking...but that's probably not the case. I wonder how much it originally sold for.

 

Most people don't even know that there was an IKE dollar!
Yes they were a WEE bit off, in making this, but tons upon tons of people have no clue, that there was a peace dollar, a morgan dollar, or anything else before it. To most people, these were the first dollar coins, even though we could call them incorrect
Nice, and funny find

 

Oh, I don't think that's true. I think most people are aware they made a big dollar coin. It might not be common knowledge for the kids your age...but the kids my age (yes, I'm still a kid) tend to know about them and I'm not that much older. When I was younger (mid-1990s), you'd get one in change every once in a long while. Doesn't happen too much anymore though.

The coins that most people in our age group era don't seem to know about are the Morgan and Peace Dollars.

 

Well every kid in my school thinks that a buffalo nickel is worth tons of money, as is a SBA or SAC dollar, and that is simply because you just don't see them.
My mom had no clue that any of these thing existed (YES EVEN THE IKE) and my dad did know, but he knew very little about them.
I'm being serious, I really do think many people have no clue what an IKE dollar is

 

I'm sure most of my friends think the same thing. But, everyone who is 18 or older has probably gotten an Ike in change at some point...I don't know any of them who have found a Buffalo Nickel in change. Ikes were just still out there when I was young. You didn't see them very often. Both the Ikes and the SBAs were uncommon in circulation, but they are still out there. I saw a bunch of both when I worked at the bank a year ago. People would still deposit them...but the Ike's were much more rare.

I'm sure your mom had seen an Ike before...probably just doesn't remember. I'll bet if you ask her if she has ever spent a "silver dollar" she will say yes. That's what people called them. They haven't been common in circulation for quite some time.

 

Oh I know they are still out there, my granddaddy gets paid with them all the time, and he always gives me what he gets, when he gives me all the pennies he saves. He does it every year, and on average I get 4 or 5 wheats, and 1 SBA and 2 SAC's every year. He has never gotten an IKE though

 

They are still out there, but people have been hoarding them. I had a guy deposit over 100 in one day at the bank. But, a customer bought them all less than an hour later. People think they are "silver dollars" and they keep them. I'm sure he has seen them before and both of your parents have too.