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Message:: [QUOTE="Tom Jefferson, post: 2281850, member: 76177"]An Ike Story: [ATTACH=full]456091[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]456092[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]456091[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]456092[/ATTACH] Last week my 88 year old mother-in-law asked my wife to "go to the bank and get me 10 silver dollars for me to give my grandkids for Christmas."  Nice, naive request. Being the dutiful daughter, my wife goes to the bank and asks if they have any dollar coins and the teller says, yes we have some Eisenhower dollars that I'd like to get rid of. So my wife gets the 10 and comes home.  Before they got to Grandma I asked to see them.  They obviously came from somebody's collection that a family member just took to the bank.  So the 10 included a couple of pretty high mint state 1974Ds and 1978s.  But what really made me realize this came from somebody's stash was a two-headed 1971 (both sides pretty darned nice also).  I know this is a "fun, manufactured" coin but man is it done well.  So I asked if they had any more at the bank and she says yes.  Next day, a trip to the bank and pick up the remaining 33. A mixed bag to be sure but a few more high MS 1978s and 74Ds. Upon examination I see that two of the 74Ds have the so-called "peg legs."   So, ya just never know what a trip to the bank at Grandma's request will yield.  Nobody's getting rich off this stash, but fun none-the-less.   One of the 78s shown.[/QUOTE]