IKES!

[jewelerdave]

Managed to find a bank that could order me Ikes,
They said they were hit and miss as to what they had but I asked how much they could get, They said $100, I said if they have $200 Id take em.
Well they came in today, I went to get em,

They were not rolled, Just rubber banded in stacks of 10
I thought I saw a silver one, I took them and went and checked, sure enough.
1 nice 76S Silver. that was it but a nice score for a hard to find IKE.

 

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[Cat J]

Congrats on that score. What will you do with the rest?

What kind of gram scale do you use. I tried to weigh mine but it just registers them at 225 226 and 227 and they may or may not have silver.

Thanks
Cat

 

[jewelerdave]

The rest get spent as tips and used for purchases around town.
I only use my good karat, scale when I want to set a trap for new CRH or to demoralize others that try. When I have a run of skunk boxes like what I am getting right now I check em by weight Everything that is heavy gets opened to check, everything light gets put back, Its not 100% accurate but its enough. If you really wanna screw with peoples heads take hand rolls and put dates and desirable things on the roll and fill em with clad, Things like Barbers, Walkers, Bens,, 64s or just 1960s etc, toss in a few that say Bicent etc, If you really want to be nasty put a note in the rolls with something like, Too bad ya missed out, or I gottem first sucker, or too bad...so sad.
Anything childish works pretty well. The psychological feeling of loss, particularly the feeling of a lost opportunity and having it shoved in ones face is just cruel. And as anyone who has done sales knows, its a great tactic to pressure people. Particularly when the goal is to stop competition of a limited resource for ones own gain.

 

[RED THUNDER]

Nice find! 8)

RT

 

[pronghorn]

Can I ask a stupid question? Yup......here it is.
Just took your picture and magnified it a little and S mintmark
on that Ike looks backward or like and 8 or something.
I am new to this so I don't have a clue, maybe it is just shadows in the
picture or my bad old eyes but it looks like a backwards S

 

[enamel7]

Just shadows. Looks okay to me. When you have a question don't be afaid to ask. After all, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

HH

 

[pronghorn]

Okay thanks, better get my eyes checked, looks to me almost like a &

I asked some questions like this in my very first post and nobody addressed
them, thought maybe the answers were obvious and nobody was going to
bother, Thanks again Enamel

 

[jewelerdave]

yeah its a kind of filled S its not very clear, I thought it was maybe plated at first and a D but when I took another look up close...sure enough, a blurry S

what seems to have happened is the punch they used for marking the die was not that great, and worn. The mint mark is the same size as the ones for dimes. And it looks like that part of the die was either worn, or the bit they used to cut it had too much of an angle. They would all have the same effect. A bad S