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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheBigH, post: 293312, member: 9866&quot;]Only the S mint (proof) Eisenhower dollars are silver, as I remember it. The others are clad &#039;sandwiches&#039;, like the rest of our pseudo-silver coins. They are generally not worth more than $1 in most cases, and even the BU ones are probably only worth an extra quarter at best. The coins to look for are Morgan dollars and Peace dollars (as the older dollar coins are most likely not going to be found in circulation), which are silver. Of course there are silver S-mint Ikes out there like I said, but they would be harder to find than regular silver dollars anyway. Also, for the record, the coins that are silver are only 90% silver, with the other 10% being small amounts of copper, mainly to stabilize the coin, as silver (as well as gold coins, which I believe are 97% solid gold) is a rather soft metal.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would have taken the Ike, simply for curiosity value, because I don&#039;t have many, but you didn&#039;t lose anything financially by not taking the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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