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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prime Mover, post: 1875297, member: 38783&quot;]I&#039;ll echo what bhaugh said, the Ikegroup site is filled with knowledge and the folks who have been collecting and studying the series for decades, but it&#039;s not as chatty which is good and bad.&nbsp; I was here on cointalk for a long time and just started participating over there about 2 months ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your question, the Dansco is a good way to get started, it&#039;ll help you understand the coins in the series, as it is a small series which is part of the reason I love collecting it - there&#039;s not a ton of coins to have to get like say quarters, but there&#039;s a whole ton of interesting back stories and history to the series.&nbsp; There&#039;s only a few (TPG recognized) varieties at the moment, but as was said there&#039;s a whole bunch of research currently going on and new varieties are showing up now more regularly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of your garden variety Ikes can be gotten for a reasonable cost from mint/proof sets.&nbsp; The only ones that are &quot;harder&quot; are 71 and 72 P &amp; D mints since those were circulation-only coins, but there&#039;s plenty on eBay and other sites.&nbsp; Me, I took the easy route and started by buying 3 mostly complete PCGS registry sets from one of the Ike gurus, 19Lyds, and that really got me into the series.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been trying to finish off those registry sets lately and I&#039;m real close.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an example of what you could end up spending going for graded, here&#039;s the link to some of my registry sets currently in progress, of which there&#039;s 6 I&#039;m working on at the moment:</p><p><br /></p><p>MS-63/64/65 business strike:</p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119381&amp;ac=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119381&amp;ac=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119381&amp;ac=1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119389&amp;ac=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119389&amp;ac=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119389&amp;ac=1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119391&amp;ac=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119391&amp;ac=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=119391&amp;ac=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Complete w/proofs:</p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=120455&amp;ac=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=120455&amp;ac=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/publishedset.aspx?s=120455&amp;ac=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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