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<p>[QUOTE="kaosleeroy108, post: 1352499, member: 18877"]the Eisenhower dollar</p><p><br /></p><p>id have to say coin collecting is one of the most ancient hobbies. it began for me with a common series, that seemed to be when i was a child lease liked. the Eisenhower dollar series .</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]157035.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p>i was born in 1978, alot was going on back then. the Cuban missle crisis was averted, Vietnam was over. Bruce lee was deemed A LEGEND, president JIMMY CARTER was coming out of office <b>Ronald Wilson Reagan </b>was running for president. computers where becoming the big deal, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQl5gxNnR14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQl5gxNnR14" rel="nofollow">Microsoft </a>was trading still in the 20's back then and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPWrK_nnjk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPWrK_nnjk" rel="nofollow">apple</a> was in the same boat , video games were becoming the in crowd. the dollar went far , rent was cheap i can remember our apartment with 3 kids and a live in baby sitter was like 550. my dad worked for eagle-ton glass co. manufacturing , on east treamont avenue, in the Bronx. me and my brother use to goto school down the block at ces 128 . and everyone's parents knew each other. and when they said i know your mother , they were not lying and you would be in trouble. </p><p> now do to a unforeseen problem my grandmother keep some things at my mothers house in a old steamer trunk. and my mother would let us play in the closet , of course i had my favorite hiding spot in the hallway cabinet cause it was above the arch way of the hall way and my brother was too chubby to get there. now in this steamer trunk was some old Lincoln cents and Franklin half dollars i would end up keeping in the near future.</p><p> now when i started pulling out these Lincoln cent and halves i was about 5 yrs old and putting them in my mr piggie , whom was a blue plastic pig.. i always said he was blue cause i didn't feed him enough..lol.. but that was just me. now there was one coin that i found in the steamer trunk that Mr piggie couldn't swallow and i asked my mom why Mr Piggie couldn't swallow it.. and she said cause its your birthday present and that was a big year.</p><p><br /></p><p>that same coin which i still have today in my first coin album.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]157036.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157037.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">The Eisenhower dollar followed the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dollar" rel="nofollow">Peace dollar</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> and is named for </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Army_(United_States)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Army_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">General of the Army</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> and </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">President</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" rel="nofollow">Dwight David Eisenhower</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">, who appears on the obverse. Both the obverse and the reverse of the coin were designed by </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gasparro" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gasparro" rel="nofollow">Frank Gasparro</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">. </font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Eisenhower dollars were struck to commemorate Dwight D. Eisenhower, who died in 1969, and the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11" rel="nofollow">Apollo 11</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> moon landing of the same year. It was annually minted for only eight years. Special </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial" rel="nofollow">Bicentennial</a><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"> issues were minted in 1975 and 1976. the Eisenhower dollar had the following mintage's</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font><b>Mintage figures[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Dollar#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Dollar#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>[/SUP]</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Business Strikes:</font></span></p><ul> <li>1971 47,799,000</li> <li>1971-D 68,587,424</li> <li>1972 75,890,000</li> <li>1972-D 92,548,511</li> <li>1973 1,769,258</li> <li>1973-D 1,769,258</li> <li>1974 27,366,000</li> <li>1974-D 45,517,000</li> <li>(No dollars dated 1975)</li> <li>1976 Type I 4,019,000</li> <li>1976-D Type I 21,048,710</li> <li>1976 Type II 113,318,000</li> <li>1976-D Type II 82,179,564</li> <li>1977 12,596,000</li> <li>1977-D 32,983,006</li> <li>1978 25,702,000</li> <li>1978-D 33,102,890</li> </ul><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Uncirculated Silver:</font></span></p><ul> <li>1971-S 6,868,530 ("Blue Ike")</li> <li>1972-S 2,193,056 ("Blue Ike")</li> <li>1973-S 1,883,140 ("Blue Ike")</li> <li>1974-S 1,900,156 ("Blue Ike")</li> <li>1976-S 4,908,319 (3-coin Bicentennial set)</li> </ul><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Proof:</font></span></p><ul> <li>1971-S Silver 4,265,234 ("Brown Ike")</li> <li>1972-S Silver 1,811,631 ("Brown Ike")</li> <li>1973-S Clad 2,760,339 (Regular annual set)</li> <li>1973-S Silver 1,013,646 ("Brown Ike")</li> <li>1974-S Clad 2,612,568 (Regular annual set)</li> <li>1974-S Silver 1,306,579 ("Brown Ike")</li> <li>1976-S Clad Type I 2,845,450 (Regular annual set)</li> <li>1976-S Clad Type II 4,149,730 (Regular annual set)</li> <li>1976-S Silver 3,998,621 (3-coin Bicentennial set)</li> <li>1977-S 3,251,152 (Regular annual set)</li> <li>1978-S 3,127,781 (Regular annual set)</li> </ul><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"> and ended production in the year 1978 , of which i own 1 completed album and working on one certified set.</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"> the Eisenhower dollar also came in proof set and mint sets</span></font></p><p><font face="sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000"> </span></font>[ATTACH]157038.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157039.vB[/ATTACH] </p><p>of which i also have a complete set of. these unique coins are still to this day considered legal tender and although not used in general circulation are a gem of a find for any collector.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaosleeroy108, post: 1352499, member: 18877"]the Eisenhower dollar id have to say coin collecting is one of the most ancient hobbies. it began for me with a common series, that seemed to be when i was a child lease liked. the Eisenhower dollar series . [ATTACH]157035.vB[/ATTACH] i was born in 1978, alot was going on back then. the Cuban missle crisis was averted, Vietnam was over. Bruce lee was deemed A LEGEND, president JIMMY CARTER was coming out of office [B]Ronald Wilson Reagan [/B]was running for president. computers where becoming the big deal, [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQl5gxNnR14"]Microsoft [/URL]was trading still in the 20's back then and [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPWrK_nnjk"]apple[/URL] was in the same boat , video games were becoming the in crowd. the dollar went far , rent was cheap i can remember our apartment with 3 kids and a live in baby sitter was like 550. my dad worked for eagle-ton glass co. manufacturing , on east treamont avenue, in the Bronx. me and my brother use to goto school down the block at ces 128 . and everyone's parents knew each other. and when they said i know your mother , they were not lying and you would be in trouble. now do to a unforeseen problem my grandmother keep some things at my mothers house in a old steamer trunk. and my mother would let us play in the closet , of course i had my favorite hiding spot in the hallway cabinet cause it was above the arch way of the hall way and my brother was too chubby to get there. now in this steamer trunk was some old Lincoln cents and Franklin half dollars i would end up keeping in the near future. now when i started pulling out these Lincoln cent and halves i was about 5 yrs old and putting them in my mr piggie , whom was a blue plastic pig.. i always said he was blue cause i didn't feed him enough..lol.. but that was just me. now there was one coin that i found in the steamer trunk that Mr piggie couldn't swallow and i asked my mom why Mr Piggie couldn't swallow it.. and she said cause its your birthday present and that was a big year. that same coin which i still have today in my first coin album. [ATTACH]157036.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157037.vB[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]The Eisenhower dollar followed the [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dollar"]Peace dollar[/URL][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif] and is named for [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Army_(United_States)"]General of the Army[/URL][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif] and [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States"]President[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower"]Dwight David Eisenhower[/URL][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif], who appears on the obverse. Both the obverse and the reverse of the coin were designed by [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gasparro"]Frank Gasparro[/URL][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Eisenhower dollars were struck to commemorate Dwight D. Eisenhower, who died in 1969, and the [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11"]Apollo 11[/URL][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif] moon landing of the same year. It was annually minted for only eight years. Special [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial"]Bicentennial[/URL][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000] issues were minted in 1975 and 1976. the Eisenhower dollar had the following mintage's [/COLOR][/FONT][B]Mintage figures[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Dollar#cite_note-1"][2][/URL][/SUP][/B] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Business Strikes:[/FONT][/COLOR] [LIST] [*]1971 47,799,000 [*]1971-D 68,587,424 [*]1972 75,890,000 [*]1972-D 92,548,511 [*]1973 1,769,258 [*]1973-D 1,769,258 [*]1974 27,366,000 [*]1974-D 45,517,000 [*](No dollars dated 1975) [*]1976 Type I 4,019,000 [*]1976-D Type I 21,048,710 [*]1976 Type II 113,318,000 [*]1976-D Type II 82,179,564 [*]1977 12,596,000 [*]1977-D 32,983,006 [*]1978 25,702,000 [*]1978-D 33,102,890 [/LIST][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Uncirculated Silver:[/FONT][/COLOR] [LIST] [*]1971-S 6,868,530 ("Blue Ike") [*]1972-S 2,193,056 ("Blue Ike") [*]1973-S 1,883,140 ("Blue Ike") [*]1974-S 1,900,156 ("Blue Ike") [*]1976-S 4,908,319 (3-coin Bicentennial set) [/LIST][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]Proof:[/FONT][/COLOR] [LIST] [*]1971-S Silver 4,265,234 ("Brown Ike") [*]1972-S Silver 1,811,631 ("Brown Ike") [*]1973-S Clad 2,760,339 (Regular annual set) [*]1973-S Silver 1,013,646 ("Brown Ike") [*]1974-S Clad 2,612,568 (Regular annual set) [*]1974-S Silver 1,306,579 ("Brown Ike") [*]1976-S Clad Type I 2,845,450 (Regular annual set) [*]1976-S Clad Type II 4,149,730 (Regular annual set) [*]1976-S Silver 3,998,621 (3-coin Bicentennial set) [*]1977-S 3,251,152 (Regular annual set) [*]1978-S 3,127,781 (Regular annual set) [/LIST][FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#000000] and ended production in the year 1978 , of which i own 1 completed album and working on one certified set. the Eisenhower dollar also came in proof set and mint sets [/COLOR][/FONT][ATTACH]157038.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157039.vB[/ATTACH] of which i also have a complete set of. these unique coins are still to this day considered legal tender and although not used in general circulation are a gem of a find for any collector.[/QUOTE]
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