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Message:: [QUOTE="W5WMW, post: 1303200, member: 25413"]Three responses I don't think there's anything even close to a Mint State Ike in the bag.  They're well circulated.  Some are even hard to tell what they are.  However, I did find one gold-plated Ike.  Kind of interesting.  Before I got these, the last time I saw one in circulation was in the late 1980s, when i gave one of my six that i had to my brother who spent on a He-Man doll.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I spend halves also, but my OK/TX regional bank (IBC) suddenly decided to refuse to order any more of these currently made coins.  So, I'm changing to a small town bank that will get them for me.  Out of about 400 halves spent, I found only one silver one (40%).  I don't roll search (but I keep my eyes open for silver), I just figure if a denomination is made to be spent, I will, regardless of the public's disuse of them.  I like the non-bicentennial reverse, but the other designs suck.  Ike is hard to tell apart from FDR on the dime.  The tiny profit just isn't worth it to me.  I'd rather spend them. When I run low again, I'll call around banks and the like to see if anyone deposited a hoard of them like happened at that credit union.  My father gets a kick out of spending them, too.[/QUOTE]