1971 eisenhower dollar silver 90%

The mintage of 90% Eisenhower dollars is less than 10k -- it's zero.

There were a few Denver-mint coins mistakenly struck on 40% planchets, and those are quite valuable. There was one 1971-S dollar overstruck onto a bronze medal.

I can imagine a thick planchet producing an overweight 1971-S 40% clad coin, but I just don't see any way to get a 90% example. Not unless it was deliberately overstruck on an old 90% silver dollar (see above), but in that case I'd expect to see some of the underlying design (again, see above).

I think your scale is off. But, as others have said, you can certainly submit it (with a note to check its composition). What's the going rate now for a single coin through a dealer with a composition check? $50-100?

 

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No, it couldn't have.

 

No one dollar coin in a 71 proof set.
P and D Mint set, but then not a proof coin of S mint?

The mystery continues...

Still Got the mint packaging you removed this from?

 

They still make Sunbeam Bread? (devil)

 

Bread is only $.75 a loaf? It’s $1.29 for the store brand where I live.

 

The odds are against it, but before you put it on sale, ask the dealer or any other dealer that has an XRF gun that can read metallic proportions to several decimals. Any dealer that is commonly offered relatively large amounts of gold/silver to buy has to have one or a friend dealer that has one these days. There may be a charge to test it, but it will be less than sending through the big grading companies first/ IMO

Jim

 

If you've got an Aldi, I think they're stubbornly holding their store-brand white bread at 55 cents a loaf. Dad goes through a ton of the stuff, but I only eat the brown and gritty kinds.

 

Thanks. 1 loaf lasts me about 3 weeks. Lol

 

That looks like it's from the bakery location and who knows how old that picture is. (Googly search)
Still wondering what sunbeam bread has to do with the 71 Ike dollar though?

 

Someone mentioned it.

 

1971 proof Ike's were not sold in proof sets like that. They came in individual plastic cases.

As far as I have seen, there has never been a 90% silver Eisenhower Dollar found.
Also, none exist in the population reports of PCGS or NGC.

There would have been no reason for the mint to posses 90% silver dollar planchets in 1971. The last time they used them was in 1964 at the Denver mint...and those were business strike planchets.

 

I agree with the others, have the coin tested for it's silver content before you send it off. If it does test at 90% silver and it's almost 27 grams, then you have something special . Is it possible that a mint worker back then found a few old 1921-35 planchets and mixed them in with the rest of the run.

 

Here's a question, are there any 1965 90% silver halves, quarters or dimes ??

 

There are rumors of quarters and dimes.
One dime was said to be auctioned off around $8,000?

 

Check just above op's second picture.......

 

I believe there are, but there would be a good reason for that to happen. The mint continued to put out 1964 dated 90% silver coins in 1965. It is not not beyond the realm of possibility that a silver planchet could have gotten into the 1965 coin die bin. A 90% silver Ike Dollar makes no sense because there was no reason for the mint to have 90% planchets on hand.

There was some hanky-panky going on at the mint at this time, however. Proof Ike dollars struck on cent planchets did crop up. I believe that the Secret Service confiscated this stuff when it came to light. There was no way that such things were made "in error."

 

Kinda like 1943 copper cents

 

Or like that Ike-struck-on-a-bronze-medal I linked in an earlier post, which couldn't be more clearly deliberate.

 

We have a tastycake store nearby every time we go to downtown Fort pierce she has to get a $1 loaf.Best price for bread around,I say torch the place to the ground!!!.