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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 2921342, member: 15929&quot;]Hey! That was my coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s uniqueness was that it was struck on a Copper-Nickel planchet whgen it should have been struck on a 40% Silver planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>As of today, it&#039;s one of three known.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the original image shot by Todd Pollock after the coin was found.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]707404[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]707405[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if it was mentioned in the linked page but after asking if they had anything unusual, the teller pulled out 3 IKE&#039;s. Being blind as a bat as far as mint marks go out in the real world, I pondered on whether or not I wanted to drag yet one more 1973-D IKE home to chew up storage space and drag across the country!</p><p>With a &quot;Oh what the heck&quot; decision, I bought all three coins and got the surprise of the year after looking closely at the mintmark at home!</p><p><br /></p><p>It was photographed, reported, graded by NGC and sold to a prominent collector before it ever made it back home.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sweet coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]707406[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s never any harm in looking and then asking.</p><p>The harm comes when reasonable explanations and answers are ignored in favor of uneducated guesses. Educated explanations come from understanding the minting process and all the different things that can go wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin was obviously cast aside by some dealer who probably purchased a bunch of raw silver IKE&#039;s in a tube not realizing what the coin was. </p><p><br /></p><p>How it was manufactured?</p><p><br /></p><p>1973 had a LOT of weird anomalies occurring at the San Francisco Facility and as suggested, could very well have had a CnClad blank tossed in with the Silver blanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, there was an unusual relationship between San Francisco and Denver in that Denver usually ended up with San Francisco rejects. This accounts for the various 40% Silver IKE&#039;s produced at the Denver Facility. Maybe somebody dumped a few rejected CnClad Proof blankjs into the barrel they thought was intended for Denver but turned out to be intended for Uncirculated 40% Silver Production?</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody knows for sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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