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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 119122, member: 669&quot;]Trying to catalog all the stuff I&#039;ve accumulated in the last 40+ years, I discovered that I had a number of Ike dollars, and some questions have arisen while I&#039;m trying to get them sorted.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; The Red Book says that the lettering on the reverse was &quot;modified early in 1975 to produce a more attractive design.&quot; It shows Var. 1 with bold lettering like my picture on the left, and Var. 2 with more delicate lettering, like my picture on the right.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since the bi-centennials were minted through 1976, that would imply that the Var. 2 is far more common than Var. 1.&nbsp; Is that the way it actually is?</p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; That Red Book comment also implies that 1971-74 Ikes would have Var. 1 reverses, and 1977-78s would have Var. 2 reverses.&nbsp; But of about a dozen pre-1976 coins I have, not one has the wide/flat lettering of a Var. 1.&nbsp; What gives?</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; What idot at Krause reported the change to &quot;thinner letters&quot;, and then designated the thin letters Type I and the thick letters Type II?&nbsp; (I know, Krause is not the most reliable authority on US coinage, but still . . .)</p><p><br /></p><p>4.&nbsp; Am I reading the Red Book correctly that the Cu-Ni clad coins come in both varieties, the silver clad circluation issues are all Var. 1, and the silver clad proofs are all Var. 2?</p><p><br /></p><p>(If this post doesn&#039;t prove how little I know about US coinage, I don&#039;t know what would. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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