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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1204048, member: 19423&quot;]I don&#039;t think anyone&#039;s posted a 10-sided Ike yet... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/1977ike.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is from the October 1976 article in Coinage magazine.&nbsp; At the time the Mint was planning on a new smaller sized dollar coin (which ultimately ended up being the SBA dollar) but they were going to simultaneously keep producing the Ike dollar but were going to do so for collectors only and the coin was going to be 10-sided.&nbsp; The Mint also experimented with 8-sided, 11-sided and 13-sided dollar coins in the late 1970s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a cover pic from the magazine that also shows what the smaller dollar coin could have looked like if they didn&#039;t later go for the SBA... wish they would have kept this design!!!&nbsp; Let me know if anyone wants a copy of the articles about the new small dollar or about the 10-sided Ike.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm111/illini420/101976cover.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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