Eisenhower dollars are usually in pretty good condition because people hoarded them

What about me with 450ish?

Most are remnants from my roll hunting days. That 400 was culled out of larger amount totaling around 6000. Those 6000 came from rolls and bags that totaled about 50,000.

Essentially the finest 1% of ikes I've come across in the wild.

I have 4 or 5 raw ones that I got when I was a young lad.

They came from my father and grandfather.

A couple of them are Bicentennial.

That A&P Olive Jar is a collectable around here. Nice find!

@CoinHoarder said:
i remember when they were in circulation. People hated them, and they did not circulate widely. I was always excited when I encountered one, and stashed them away when I could afford to do so. A dollar was a lot of money to me back then.

I have at least one complete set. I probably have accumulated about 300 or so. I have many slabbed, raw, Blue Ikes, Brown Ikes, etc. I accumulated quite a few over many years from banks, stores, etc.

Here is a jar full that I have had for a very long time.

Best to bury them until brown

I probably have 100 or more in a can, with them sorted into a a few partial rolls that I kept from change maybe 30 years ago. One of these days I need to go through them and look for errors.

A few years ago I took mine to the bank. The first bank wouldn't take them, the second bank did. I had about 5 rolls. I couldn't even get $1.05 each them I put them out at shows. Hopefully I made a collector happy when they got them from the bank...

I have 30-40 of them. I like them enough that some I have are slabbed and hopefully I will complete the set eventually. It's an interesting set considering the silver S mints, plus proofs, plus the thick and thin letters, to me it is a very attractive large coin that goes underrated.

Other......I have a handful and I know where they are.
Nothing wrong with Ikes !

I have 8 or 9, and one of them is stamped MDCXXX. Cheers, RickO

@coinkat said:
There is a reasonable number of the business strike clads in low MS grades. The clads seem unappreciated in 66 and higher. These coins were simply not handled well by the mint or the public. At some point it seems possible the attitude towards this series will change... but not holding my breath.

If anyone has looked at the TPG counts, not low or at not low for the price. Most of these coins are almost certainly going to be a Judd R-1 in PCGS 66, whether the counts are at this level now or not. Very few coins with this supply sell for more than a nominal price.

I have about 1500 of them, I save them whenever I can get them from banks. But they are not my primary focus by a longshot.

"Eisenhower dollars are usually in pretty good condition because people hoarded them"

If this were true then prices on uncirculated coins wouldn't wholesale at $3.50 and up.

Few people made much effort to save them because $1 was still real money in the '70's. You could find nice BU rolls for only a little more than face value but how many could anyone afford to stash. Of course there's also the simple fact most people looked at the mintages between 4 million and 117 million and saw little reason to save even one of them. So most people did not. Add in the fact that even if you wanted to save a few nice choice pieces they were exceedingly difficult to find. Large numbers of these coins even from mint sets can't even be sold as "chBU" because they are too ugly.

Speaking of mint sets you could buy most of the Ikes in mint sets for about $1.50 each in the late-'70's. But again people did not because it was expensive to save any. I'd set a few of the nice ones from sets aside but this was the exception rather than the rule.

This has been a throw away society for many years. "Consumers" are encouraged to buy and toss so resources go almost straight from the mine to landfill. Quality isn't lacking only in Ikes and everything is getting "consumed". Now large percentages of Ikes have already been consumed and all that's left are scratched, dinged, and ugly. Uncs tend to be ugly as well because this is the standard and has been for a long time.

Nice choice and gemmy Ikes are not easy to find and full Gems weren't easy to find even in 1978.

WYSIWYG. And WYS is mostly beaten up garbage. Most of the coins are long gone scattered to the four winds and now are in landfills and sock drawers all over the world.

Disagree with "are usually in good condition", despite that people may have put some aside.
1) Ikes were not universally well struck, and then were not well handled after they were struck. Remaining clad Ikes and 1971S business strike silvers in unc condition are largely <65. Ikes in circ conditions are generally worth only face value (melt value at most), unless they are a 1972 Type 2 or possibly a 1971D Friendly Eagle.
2) Population reports should only be used with extreme caution in assessing "usually in good condition", because they represent selection bias - only coins though to be higher MS grades are sent in (with the exception of the uncommon low ball set submission).
3) I venture a guess that "hoarding" predominantly applied to the bicentennial Ikes, and maybe to the 1971 Ike issues.
4) A large percentage of Ikes, whether initially hoarded or not, have been destroyed - a) in the past by circulation, casino usage, b) some discarded after breaking up a mint sets, c) some lost to deterioration in brown pack, blue pack, and mint set packaging/containers, and d) more currently, the propensity to artificially tone Ikes and sell these destroyed coins on eBay.

Despite one's preference for the design features, a well-struck, early die state Ike in >= 66 is a great coin.....not "usually" found, and not because of "hoarding".

I have many blue, brown, red, proof and casino ikes, they are second to all silver dollars/reales/cobs. I am not a fan of the smaller dollar coins.

@Jzyskowski1 nice looking IKE

Check eBay sold prices for an idea of what is really being realized for them. Google it. Online pcgs and ngc have volumes There are better times of the year to sell. The sold data should be available with the date sold. A little sifering and you’ll know when the last ones sold. This forum also has a buy sell trade forum free to list. Maybe get some offers. There’s a little good luck 🤓🙀
Moso231. Start a thread post some pictures there’s nothing to fear as long as you don’t post your address and hours your not home 😁

I have about 20 of them kicking around. All raw.
I won one the other day but the seller was unable to find it so
they refunded my $$.
It was a 1971 s in MS65.
Found more offerings at lower prices in higher grades.
Will buy one in the near future just to have one in a PCGS slab.
Wayne

Between coins pulled from circulation at the time of issue, mint sets, proof sets, silver unc's and proofs, and a 100 coin minibag of '78-D obtained from a bank, I probably have close to 200.