Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States - A Complete Encyclopedia

1776-1876 Copper-Nickel Clad $1

Coinage Context

Largest Eisenhower mintage: This date has the distinction of having the largest mintage in the entire Eisenhower dollar series. Indeed, it is the only date in the series with a mintage figure above 100 million pieces.

Numismatic Information

Availability: Eisenhower dollar specialist Dave McHenry noted this:
1976 Variety II: This is probably the most common of all Eisenhower dollars. Every so often a hoard will come on the market. However, now in the early 1990s it is not as easy to find Uncirculated bags as it was a few years ago. More specimens of this issue exist in MS-64 and MS-65 grades than do any other Ike variety.

Certification: The number of coins of this date that have been submitted to PCGS for third-party grading is small (just 72 pieces in all grades as of January 1993), reflecting this coin's common-date status and low value, and not its rarity.

Varieties
Business strikes:
VARIETY II: Issue of 1976
THIN, TALL, OVAL LETTER O's.
1. 1776-1976 Issue of 1976. Copper-nickel clad.

Proofs:
VARIETY II: Issue of 1976
THIN, TALL, OVAL LETTER O's.
1. 1776-1976 silver clad. Breen-5768. Proof. No mintmark. Only one reported. Said to have been from a Woodward & Lathrop Department Store cash register in Washington, DC, early 1977. Thomas K. DeLorey reported this:'

I spoke with the man who reported this to Coin World, and did the weight and specific gravity tests on it. I was not con" vinced about the story of its having been found in a store, and thought at the time that it may have come from a more direct governmental source. I couldn't prove it, and didn't want to make waves that might lead to the coin being seized.

Later, the coin was sold through Devonshire Galleries to Andy Lustig, thereafter Rarities Group, at "nearly $30,000" to Alan Hager, Coin World January 14, 1987, page 3, illustrated.

1776-1976 Eisenhower: Market Values

COPPER-NICKEL CLAD

1776-1976 Eisenhower: Summary of Characteristics

Business Strikes:
Enabling legislation: Act of July 23, 1965 (clad metal), Act of December 31, 1970, Act of October 18, 1973, Act of December 26, 1974, and others.
Designer of obverse: Frank Gasparro,
Designer of reverse: Dennis Williams.
Weight (copper-nickel clad): 350 grains (tolerance 4%); outer layers of .750 copper and .250 nickel bonded to inner core of pure copper.
Dies prepared (approximate): Obverse: 1,134; Reverse: 567.
Business strike mintage: 113,318,000.
Comment on availability, MS-65 or better: Common.
Comment on availability, MS-64: Common.
Comment on availability, MS-63: Very common.
Comment on availability, MS-60 to 62: Very common.

Comment on availability, VF-20 to AU-58: Very common. This date, perhaps more than any other in the series, is found in circulated grades. The dual-date feature attracted collectors and non-collectors alike, and many of these disappeared from circulation as quickly as they were placed there.
Characteristics of striking: The typical 1776-1976 Variety I Eisenhower dollar is very well struck.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: Some bags exist.

Proofs:
None.

Commentary
Easily the most available of the Eisenhower dol-lars.