I spent Saturday morning in a sea of blue...
cmerlo1
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...Ikes! The B&M had made a big purchase of around 200 of them, most of which were dated 1971 (IMHO, the best year for 40% Ike varieties). Didn't find the elusive peg-leg, but I did come away with 2(!) FS-501 RPM's!!
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Actually, they were all jumbled together, so I offered to organize them if they let me have a look...
<< <i>They let me cherrypick- they like me
Actually, they were all jumbled together, so I offered to organize them if they let me have a look... >>
Sort of like a fox in a hen house.
Nice gig. It pays to have friends.
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<< <i>They let me cherrypick- they like me
Actually, they were all jumbled together, so I offered to organize them if they let me have a look... >>
Sort of like a fox in a hen house.
Nice gig. It pays to have friends. >>
They know I look for varieties. I do pass some of the better-known ones I find along to them- I recently found an acid-date 1918/7-D Buffalo in one of their double-row boxes, and I pointed it out to them- they've told me repeatedly that if it isn't in the Red Book, they aren't interested. Also, if I'm there, they ask for grade or authenticity opinions from time to time, which I'm happy to give. I do get my hens occasionally, though.
The 1971 40% Ikes were great when it came to all sorts of oddities. The mint employees had to relearn (yet again... can we say 1921) how to manufacture big coins and it showed in all the anomalies that were produced.
You may want to check the The Ike Group website for some eye visible markers and take another look.
Congratulations on the RPMs. Any guess on the grades?
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<< <i>Of course you looked for the straight peg legs, and the DDO, DDR, DDO/DDR, and those with clash images...
The 1971 40% Ikes were great when it came to all sorts of oddities. The mint employees had to relearn (yet again... can we say 1921) how to manufacture big coins and it showed in all the anomalies that were produced.
You may want to check the The Ike Group website for some eye visible markers and take another look.
Congratulations on the RPMs. Any guess on the grades?
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I looked for all of those. I did also find a couple of minor doubled dies, but haven't had time to attribute them yet. I'm thinking 64 on one of the RPM's, and the other has a shot at 65. Oddly, they were 2 of the nicer coins there- I'm still amazed at the poor quality of the 1971-S coins. Some of them had fingerprints on them, sealed in the gov't. packaging!
As far as the quality of the 1971-S Ikes, the mint was relearning how to handle big coins. they shipped them across country in bags to the place where they were packaged to send to customers. The employees at the packaging center did not handle the coins well, which leaves many with fingerprints, smudges, brown sludge, etc... Further the conditions where the coins were stored left many with a white film on them.
By 1972 the mint at least packaged them in tubes for shipment which reduced the amount of contact marks.
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