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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 202773, member: 68&quot;]Hmm..</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the 40% silver Ikes made for collectors were run off on proof or mint set presses</p><p>at low speed and higher pressure except for the last 11,000,000 of the &#039;76-S unc pieces.</p><p>Almost all of these ended up being melted by the mint in 1982 after years of dismal sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a 40% silver 1976-P Ike proof that turned up in circulation.&nbsp; There have been</p><p>a few &#039;77-D 40% Ikes made on high speed presses and released to circulation.&nbsp; These were</p><p>struck on planchets inadvertyantly left in tote bins returned to Denver from San Francisco </p><p>at the end of the bicentennial era.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Generally speaking, no, there were no 40% silver Ikes intended for circulation and the ex-</p><p>ceptions were accidendal on some level.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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