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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;softmentor, post: 2761788, member: 10469&quot;]Hey Bman, see you over in CRH all the time. Sorry I&#039;m late to this party. I like the Ike too.</p><p>My 2c worth of experience. Strictly amateur! </p><p>About a year ago I arranged for $16,000 in bags of Ike&#039;s at my bank (3 orders each 2 weeks apart). Definitely appealed to the CRH&#039;er in me. 4 of them were plastic and recently put together. The rest were canvas sewn bags but not mint bags, they were counted Fed Res bags. From these I put together 4 clad sets, with most about grade 63-64. (well, based on my meager grading ability anyway.) Not one 72 type 2 in all that, complete clad sets except for that one. Also kept the next best 20 coins for each date. A couple of dates there were a LOT of 62 grade so I kept a couple of extra rolls of these. In addition to the clad I found 2 modern Am Eagles, 3 Morgans, 7 40% and 14 coins that were &quot;copies&quot; or tokens. Also found 4 counterfeit 40% &quot;silver&quot; or as I call them &quot;In God we rust&quot; fakes. Guess I had hoped for more silver in all that but, still there was something. And pulled some decent quality clad. </p><p>Since that big search the bank got me one more bag, this time it had $872 in Ikes. the rest of the bag was JFK halves mixed in. (they do these bags by weight so the face total was only a couple of dollars off.) That bag produced exactly nothing. </p><p>One thing all that searching did for me though, was I developed a&nbsp; sense of what grade is out there, how to grade them, and what to look for. </p><p>Note: my bank was more willing to order $6,000 at a time than $1,000 and only if I had the $6k on deposit with them at the time of order. As always, as I&#039;m sure you know, they never want to see them again, so don&#039;t deposit the unwanted ones back at the same bank.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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