My new (old) Eisenhower Dollar..........1973-S Business Strike on a CuNi Planchet

1973-S Business Strike IKE on a Copper Nickel Planchet

I got this from my local bank.



It's only the second one found with the first one being found by collector John Wrublewski on the East Coast and reported in the Sept 29th, 2008 Issue of Coin World.

NGC has a a "From the Grading Room "piece ( http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=1091 ) on the first one found which graded MS67. Mine graded at a lowly AU58 but what the heck! It's got more history than that other one! I mean, how many folks actually passed this one over??

Since that 2008 CW article, I concentrated heavily on buying Sealed Shipping Envelope 5 packs of Blue 1973 IKE's looking for one of these. I spent a lot of money and spent a lot of time looking for one.

Little did I know that all I had to do was go down to my local bank and ASK!

 

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Can you check that link? I can't seem to find ngccoin.com...

 

http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=1091

That's a nice coin, well done!

 

It pays to be a good boy at your bank.

 

My bad. I've corrected the link.

 

Wow, that is awesome. Nice find. Dare I ask if a value can be put on it?

 

The only other coin of its type, an MS67, was in the 5 figure territory.

 

Outstanding. Either way, what a wonderful piece to have. Again, nice find! I used to get jealous when I first starting collecting. Now I am just happy when someone finds something like this.

 

what was the give-away that it was clad? I have an idea though I would like to hear what you have to say...I have a few of them that I need to look through and I rather have the knowledge then to go in blindly.

 

Well, the mintmark and the copper core along with the knowledge that the only copper nickel clad IKE's to come out of San Francisco, bearing the S Mintmark, were the copper nickel clad proofs. (73 - 78 ). As you can see, this is not a proof. Neither is it a circulated proof.

 

It pays to pay attention.

 

That's a really neat coin, and an even neater story with a lesson for many collectors -- as BR549 said above, "It pays to pay attention". Congrats Lee!

 

Considering that uncirculated Ikes still languish in Fed Reserve vaults, I wonder how many are waiting to be discovered one day.

Good find though, at least for the foreseeable future, you have a rare bird!

 

Man, I wish this were true as I;d be ordering them by the bag at a grand apiece.

Truth is, this coin originated in a Collector Blue Pack.

 

:thumb:Good read & update!!
but don't know why I missed it!
:kewl:

 

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Yep, I probably would have just popped it the album and never learned the rest. My question is why this is only the second documented in three decades. Is that an indication that interest and knowledge were low until the series passed the 25-year mark?
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