By Mike Byers for Mint Error News …… This unique Proof 1971-S Eisenhower Dollar overstruck on a San Francisco Assay Office medal is featured in the Platinum Session of the August 2022 Heritage US Coins Signature Auction #1348. From the Heritage Auction listing: 1971-S $1 Eisenhower Dollar — Overstruck on a San Francisco Assay Office […]
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Heritage Auctions is proud to present a 1971-S $1 Eisenhower Dollar Prototype, Specimen 67 PCGS, as a part of our Platinum Night offerings in the January 5-10 FUN Signature Auction. This prototype is one of the rarest of all silver dollars struck since 1794, and it has been poetically described as the “birth certificate of […]
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A 1971-S Eisenhower dollar, PCGS-graded PR-70 Deep Cameo. (Images courtesy Heritage Auctions)
A coin does not have to be valuable to be interesting. That is certainly the case for the 1971-S Eisenhower dollar as the 1971-S is definitely not valuable but it is an interesting coin both in BU and in proof
Description: While the country at large’s desire for a large dollar coin at the start of the 1970s was hardly demonstrable, the gaming industry developed an acute need to find a replacement for the silver dollars it used to feed tens of thousands of slot machines. This “need”, and the recent passing of beloved war-hero-turned-President […]
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