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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdb1950, post: 30469, member: 1735&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting Ikes since 1971.&nbsp; Got some nice ones, too.&nbsp; When the high grade BU&#039;s suddenly shot up in price, I sold a ton of them, but there are still a few nice pieces in my collection.&nbsp; Now I just look for doubled dies or other errors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I had 2 Gallery Mint $1 coin replicas struck on clad Ike blanks.&nbsp; They look really good!&nbsp; Too bad there were no clad planchets in the 1790&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once in the 1980&#039;s, I needed some quick cash, so I hauled out over 600 Ikes to the pawn shop to borrow $300.&nbsp; The pawn shop guy told me they didn&#039;t loan money on coin collections, but I pointed out to him that there was over $600 in cash.&nbsp; That really seemed to stymie him.&nbsp; &quot;But we can&#039;t lend money on coin collections...&quot;&nbsp; Again, I pointed out that I wanted to leave $600 as collateral for a $300 loan, but he didn&#039;t get it.&nbsp; He got his supervisor and he was pretty adamant, too.&nbsp; &quot;We don&#039;t loan money on coin collections.&quot;&nbsp; Again, I pointed out that there was over $600 cash here for collateral.&nbsp; It took them a while to figure out what was going on, but they did, finally, loan the money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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