The 1972 Eisenhower dollar has been identified to have three different variations (types) noted - Type 1, 2 and 3. 'FG''FG' is the designer's initials and appears on the front and back of all the Ike dollars except the bicentennial reverse design. The silver Ike dollars are worth about 4.50 plus a collectors premium, which makes it worth around $8.00. The silver ones that the mint made for collectors is worth around $4.44 as of June 15th, 2009, just for the silver in it. The value of a 1972 'Ike' dollar is worth around one-ten dollars, depending on its condition. AnswerUnless it is a proof coin or high-grade uncirculated certified by one of the major grading services, it is worth a dollar but I have seen some well-worn ones priced as high as $3 at flea markets. If it's a special 40%-silver collector's coin in its original package, it would retail for about $4.50 using the price of silver as of 09/2008. It should be noted that 40% silver Eisenhower dollars are much more common in the higher Mint State grades because they were minted with the much greater level of care generally afforded numismatic strikes.If it's from circulation and made of copper-nickel, it's worth face value. Thus, copper-nickel clad business strikes grading MS60-64 are typical in MS65 they are scarce, are rare in MS66, and prove virtually elusive in MS67. This is because the coins are relatively large and heavy and thus more prone to surface gouges and other imperfections during shipment in bags.

While hundreds of millions of Eisenhower dollars were made, copper-nickel clad business-strike specimens grading MS65 or better are remarkably scarce. Williams, was replaced in 1977 with the coin?s regular reverse visage ? the Apollo 11 insignia. In 19, all Eisenhower dollars honored the nation?s bicentennial with a 1776-1976 dual date on the obverse and a special reverse design with the Liberty Bell superimposed on the surface of the moon.

While most Eisenhower dollars are made from copper-nickel clad, many uncirculated pieces were minted in a 40% silver format at the San Francisco Mint and bear an ?S? mintmark.

The Eisenhower dollar symbolizes at least two numismatically significant elements, being the first dollar coin minted during the copper-nickel clad era (which began in 1965) and the last regularly issued dollar coin with physical dimensions approximating the traditional silver dollars of earlier times. Eisenhower dollars were minted from 1971 through 1978 and designed by Frank Gasparro.

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