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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bugo, post: 1811968, member: 53226&quot;]I have fewer than ten Eisenhower dollars.&nbsp; I even have a couple of bicey Ikes.&nbsp; I was building a 1976 set in a Whitman plastic case (which I cannot recommend highly enough) and I found all the other coins from that year in good shape (I&#039;ve even found several bicentennial halves) and I didn&#039;t think I&#039;d ever find a &#039;76 Ike in circulation, so I bought one off of ebay.&nbsp; Later on, I found one at work.&nbsp; I replaced the one I bought with the one I found, which means that I pulled every coin of that collection out of the drawer or a roll at work.&nbsp; My favorite Eisenhower dollaris a 40% silver 1973-S, from the year I was born (I built a 1973 set consisting of the silver Ike, proof quarter, dime and nickel, and a 1973-S BU penny (I may replace the penny with a proof)).&nbsp; I obviously didn&#039;t pull the &#039;73 out of circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin that could be argued that I have &quot;too many&quot; of&nbsp; is the JFK half.&nbsp; My mom found a &#039;64 under the built-in shelves of the house I grew up in (apparently it was a custom back in those days to hide a half dollar somewhere in the house minted the same year the house was built in).&nbsp; I&#039;ve found several &#039;65-&#039;69 40%ers at work (including one with a hole drilled in it, which I now wear as a necklace) and bought a 1970 40% from the local coin shop (&#039;70s were minted only for collectors and are fairly rare and almost never seen in circulation.)&nbsp; I&#039;ve found many post-1970 halves, enough to fill 2 1/2 medicine bottles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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