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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KTO, post: 1444783, member: 37914&quot;]Kirkuleez is right to provide a link to the Ike Group website; it is a wealth of free information to Ike collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term &quot;Friendly Eagle Variety&quot; comes from the characteristic lack of a brow line above the eagle&#039;s eye, which makes the eagle appear less foreboding. For those looking for the short version of, &quot;What <u>is</u> an Ike dollar Friendly Eagle Variety?&quot; rather than &quot;How can you tell if you have one?&quot; here is a synopsis of some of the background information (again, from the Ike Group website):</p><blockquote><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The FEV was very probably the initial low relief Ike reverse design, intended for the CB (CuNi-clad Business strike), the SB (Silver Business strike and the CP (CuNi-clad Proof) Ikes....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We think the design proved impractical for a 1971-S CP but not before several million CP planchets had been ordered and prepared for use by the S-Mint.&nbsp; As was the practice at the time, unused clad proof planchets were used in Denver production runs and that was the case in 1971&nbsp; -&nbsp; about 10% of 1971-D Ikes are consistent with being struck on proof planchets....</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Five of us have been seriously looking for the FEV’s for several years.&nbsp; Based on the number we’ve found in proportion to the number of 1971-D’s we’ve searched, we estimate a total mintage of roughly 500,000. </p><p><br /></p><p>4.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We think the Philly Mint ran extensive test runs on as many as 30 to 100 FEV dies on CB planchets and found the design didn’t work for circulation Ikes.&nbsp; For whatever reason, the FEV design was not used for the 1971/72 production runs.&nbsp; With one important exception.</p><p><br /></p><p>5.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Denver was so eager to begin Ike production in July 1971 that it used eight older single chamber presses in the basement (at the time used for gold commerative production) for its first two or three weeks of&nbsp; 1971-D CB Ike production while the big twin-chamber Columbia presses were being readied upstairs.&nbsp; These first-struck Ikes, we believe, all had the FEV reverse....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[you can read more about the background of the FEV, along with information the Ike Group gleaned from one of the die-setters at the Denver Mint, at <a href="http://ikegroup.org/FEV.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ikegroup.org/FEV.htm" rel="nofollow">http://ikegroup.org/FEV.htm</a> ]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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