Eisenhower dollar coins

[christie1111]

While I was helping my Dad clean out stuff, photos and such, he had a bag of coins. A bunch are quarters etc but there were about 16 Eisenhower dollar coins. I have saved some Kennedy dollar coins along with some silver certificate bills over the years but did not have any of these before. Some are 1971 and 1972 but a few were bicenntenial ones marked 1776-1976. I cannot find a mint mark on the bicenntenial ones.

Any numismatists out there?

[jarnon]

Most coins from the 1960s or later are worth their face value. Quarters from 1964 or earlier and Kennedy half dollars from 1970 or earlier contain actual silver and are worth more. The Mint also makes collectors' versions of every coin that are better quality and sometimes contain silver. (I know some of this, but had to look up the details.)

[bazodee]

The Eisenhowers are worth face value. They were only minted for a few years in the 70s, and reappeared for one last gasp in the bicentennial year. 3 years later, the infamous Susan B Anthony began production, forever changing the size of the dollar coin. The bicentennial coins were minted in both Philadelphia and Denver, though the Philadelphia struck coins do not have a P. Only the Denver struck coins have the mint mark and that is located on the front, below the bust, and just above the third and fourth digits of the date.

They are legal currency, though nowadays considered kind of a novelty.

[MarleysGh0st]

Quarters from 1964 or earlier and Kennedy half dollars from 1970 or earlier contain actual silver and are worth more.

At the current price of silver, those silver dimes and quarters are worth about 12 times face value.