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LOL! There's so much Ike-love in this group!

 

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I concur! Great additions Joe! Well worth the wait to see them posted.
I guess I need to get more in touch with the Ike Group folks. I really like the info they readily share on their site.

 

This is turning into one of the oldest and best threads on cointalk

Ruben

 

I think it is very important for the IKE collectors out there to understand that we are at just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to IKE varieties and their die marriages. If I have said this once, I have said it a million times....the IKEs are our generations Morgan dollars. There are so many new and exciting varieties being discovered every day. I am looking forward to putting together a tremendous collection, but even more important than that is for me to actually learn and understand how these errors and varieties were created. Every basic principle about the minting process must be understood fully for one to really understand what goes into striking an IKE. These are large coins. These coins required a lot of force to strike and therefore many different dies had to be created as the working dies broke down. I look forward to the day when I can really just sit down and learn this stuff and absorb it. Such an exciting time and I want to be at the front and not playing catch up for the past 130 years as with the Morgans. There is hardly anything going on with the SACs and Prez dollars and I spit at the ground at the mention of weak edge/partial edge crap. Lets find some real stuff!!! Unfortunately, there is none or none have been found because no one is looking. No one is looking because these coins are not fun to look at. But an IKE.....wow! I love looking at these coins. Such the power you feel when you hold one in your hand. Then you come across something like this......(see pic below).....not much, but still, highly visible to those of us who know what to look for and a complete blank for those of us who don't . Is it significant? Probably not, but this was my first one ever found, so I found it significant. Can you see it??

 

Or how about this one..... Now can you see it?

 

That is a fairly regular talon head. I have a few of those.

Ruben

 

BTW - it is a die clash

 

Or how about this one>>> Grrrrrrroooowwlllllll!!!!! Think of a grizzly claw!

 

I would expect nothing less than you nailing that. But how many collections see this and don't give it a second thought. I see it nearly at every coin show. These little varieties that we are finding now, but may end up being hard to find years from now...especially in high grades.

 

time for Pizza

 

I have tons of Ikes that I haven't searched through too intensly but I keep them for the chance they might have some error (like one i found last month while looking through some of them). I was just wondering if there was a list of errors to search for or is it basically anything out of the ordinary?

 

Here ya go for starters! http://ikegroup.sslpowered.com/ikegroup.org/phpBB-3.0.2/phpBB3/index.php

 

jaceravone,
Could not agree with you more, I was into the Morgan and Peace VAM's for a long time and felt like I was just finding what others had discovered and was well known for quite some time. When I got into the Ike's a couple of years ago. It felt like being on the cutting edge of discovery. even though I have not had a discovery coin of my own yet.(Maybe someday :whistleatiently looking) It is very exiting to me to know that there are more out there.
Mr. Vaile's work on the new Ike RPM's just amazed me last year. Just thinking they have been there all this time 30+ years and no one found them. Just wild.
Mr. Ezerman's work lately on Ike's with spots on them helped to clear up something that I had not understood about the spotting on some of the Ike's I have found and saved me from cracking one out of a holder because I thought it was PVC Contamination.
I have never had so much fun collecting any series of coin as I have the Eisenhower series the last couple of years.

 

I agree!
:kewllus Ike have been overlooked so much & now there find more Die Variety's too
this coin has been past over too much to the 1946-64 Mint stage & Proof Roosevelt Dimes

 

Another Favorite one of my Ike's

 

Stewart, is that 'gold' toned or just the color of the lighting?

 

I have a 1971-S I will be posting soon.it looks like the die was once a proof die and re-engrave to a mint stage die.but you will see soon

 

All right this is a poor pic of the first Ike that I bought.

 

Tater, that is one sweet IKE. Looks very, very clean, but hard to tell from the angle. Nice luster! Congrats!!!

 

Ya, it was a quick pic from my wife's pink nikon S9. I'll set some lights up and pull out the K200 and try to get some better picks. This was an impulse buy to just own a higher grade Ike to see if I wanted to go for a set of them.