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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 565706, member: 68&quot;]I like Ike.&nbsp; I even think the reverse design is pretty good art.&nbsp; The obverse isn&#039;t bad art when you consider what Gasparro had to work with. </p><p><br /></p><p>People just don&#039;t realize how scarce these coins are in nice shape.&nbsp; With most dates it&#039;s not just that superb gems are rare but so too are gems and even choice specimens.&nbsp; I can&#039;t count the number of original 1971 uncs I&#039;ve seen yet there hasn&#039;t been a single gem and a mere handfull of choice specimens.&nbsp; The &#039;76 type 1 can drive you up the wall if you want one well struck and fairly clean.&nbsp; Even in the mint set only about 2% are choice and gems are very very rarely seen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coins were set aside in large numbers but that just means that there are lots of poor coins around today.&nbsp; Quality was so poor that a lot of those originally set aside have been returned to circulation.&nbsp; Uncs will never be scarce probably but nice examples were the day they were made and haven&#039;t gotten more common since.&nbsp; Gem Morgans probably outnumber gem Ikes by 100: 1.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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