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HSN I AM SUZANNE RUNYAN.
WE HAVE ONE OF THE
WORLDS LEADING COIN
EXCERPTS MIKE MEZACK WHO
IS BEEN HERE 13 YEARS
TELLING US ABOUT GREAT
COINS AND BRING US COINS
UNIQUE COLLECTIBLES. ERE
IS THE QUESTION WE ASKED
A MOMENT AGO ARE YOU
READY FOR THIS ONE?
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>>GUEST: YES INDEED IT
WAS. IT IS TRUE.
>>HOST: THEY WANTED TO
GET RID OF THE SILVER?
>>GUEST: ONE OF THE BIG
HISTORIES OF THE UNITED
STATES AS A MATTER OF
FACT IS THE FACT WE
ALWAYS PRODUCED MORE
SILVER THAN WE COULD USE
SIS OVERPRODUCING STATES
HAVE ALWAYS FORCED THE H
US GOVERNMENT TO BUY
THEIR SILVER AND GIVE
THEM GOLD FOR IT AND THE
TURN IT INTO COINS. TUR
THIS IS THE END RESULT T
IS RONALD REAGAN WANTED
TO TAKE THE SILVER
STOCKPILE AND SELL IT TO
REDUCE THE NATIONAL DEBT
AND SOME OF THE SENATORS
FROM SILVER MINING
WESTERN STATES DID NOT
ALLOW THAT SO THEY ENDED
UP WITH A COMPROMISE
WHICH WAS TO USE THE
SILVER TO MAKE COINS SO
THAT THEY COULD BUY MORE
SILVER FROM THE SILVER
PRODUCERS HENCE THE NAME
SILVER KINGS. >>HOST:
THUS THE REASON WHY THE
SILVER EAGLE WAS CREATED?
>>GUEST: YES EXACTLY AND
IT IS ONLY THE SECOND
TIME THEY DID IT. THEY
DID IT IN 1921 UNDER THE
PITTMAN ACT. SEN.
PITTMAN WAS FROM NEVADA
AND HE FORCED THEM TO
REMAKE ALL THE MORGAN
SILVER DOLLAR THAT THEY
MELTED DOWN. [LAUGHTER]
>>HOST: THAT IS
INTERESTING, VERY GOOD.
THE NEXT ITEM UP IS A
10-PIECE ALL THE SILVER
IKES EISENHOWER DOLLARS
THAT. NOW LET US JUST
TALK ABOUT HOW LITTLE I
HAVE OF THESE. THERE HA
ARE 100 TO GO AROUND.
>>GUEST: AND WE HAVE
EARLY SOLD WITHOUT ME
EVEN TALKING ABOUT IT EV
BUT LET ME GO RIGHT TO
THIS AND I KNOW YOU SAW
ME SEARCHING THROUGH THE
CATALOG. THEY HAVE THE
EISENHOWER DOLLARS AND
HERE THEY ARE ALL HERE T
$30-$50 APIECE, I KNEW
THEY HAD THIS COIN RIGHT
HERE FROM 1973 PROOF COIN
. THAT WILL BE THIS .
COIN RIGHT HERE, THIS IS
THE SILVER PROOF COIN I
FINALLY FOUND IT IN HERE
INDIVIDUALLY FOR $105.
FOR THIS COIN RIGHT HERE
IS $105 VALUE. WE ARE
$29 APIECE FOR THESE
COINS THEY HAVE THIS ONE
LISTED AT $105. NONE OF
THE OTHERS ARE LESS THAN
$35 THAT THEY GO FROM
$35-$105 THIS IS THE KEY
COIN IN THE ENTIRE
EISENHOWER SILVER DOLLAR
COLLECTION. THEY MADE 10
, EXACTLY 10 SILVER
EISENHOWER DOLLARS. I
HAVE ALL 10 OF THEM HAVE
RIGHT HERE INCLUDING BOTH
OF THE SILVER
BICENTENNIAL THAT YOU
HAVE RIGHT HERE. THIS H
IS THE BICENTENNIAL
UNCIRCULATED SILVER IN
THE BICENTENNIAL PROOF
THEY DID NOT COME IN THE
PROOF OR MINT SETS THEY
CAME IN A SPECIAL THREE
COIN BICENTENNIAL SILVER
PRODUCTION SETS IS WHAT
THEY DID WITH THIS
PARTICULAR PIECE. SEE
YOU HAVE GOT THIS,
1971-1976 ALL-TIME 1971-
PIECES ALL DONE IN PIECE
SILVER THEY ARE NOT THE
REGULAR ISSUE EISENHOWER
EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE EVE
VERY DESIRABLE
UNCOLLECTIBLE THESE ARE
THE 10 SILVER. FINALLY
FOUND THAT POINT I KNEW
IT WAS IN THERE IT WAS I
SOMEPLACE FOR $105 ON
THAT PARTICULAR POINT. F
I GO BACK IT DOES NOT
EVEN LIST ALL OF THE
COINS BUT I WANT TO SHOW
YOU ONCE THEY DO LIST
SOME OF THEM ARE UP SOME
THERE PRETTY GOOD SO THE
SILVER BICENTENNIALS ARE
$38.95 APIECE FOR THE
BICENTENNIALS, SILVER
CLAD. I AM SORRY MY BAD
THEY ARE $47.95. MY
MISTAKE. $47.95 OR THE
UNCIRCULATED, THEY DO UN
NOT HAVE THE PROOF THEY
DO NOT LIST THE PROOF IN
SILVER. SAID THIS ONE S
IS $47.95 THESE ARE ALL
ABOUT $36-$38 APIECE ABO
THAT YOU HAVE APPEAR NO
LESS THAN $36 APIECE
ACROSS THE BOARD. YOU
CAN GET THESE COINS FOR
LESS THAN $30.
>>HOST: IF THIS LASTS >>
THE 2 MIN. I WILL BE
SHOCKED AT THIS POINT. F
YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT Y
IT AGAIN REALLY CRUCIAL
FREE SHIPPING AND
HANDLING ONLY GOOD FOR
THE SHOW IF YOU SPEND TH
$75 OR MORE EVERYTHING
SHIPS FOR FREE. WHAT I
FIND INTERESTING MIKE
MEZACK IS THE 1971 IS A
DUAL COMMEMORATIVE COIN
AS WELL MODEL ME
EISENHOWER ON ONE SIDE
BUT THE FIRST LUNAR
MISSION ON THE OTHER.
EVERY SINGLE
ONE? >>GUEST: WELL THE
1971 THEY DID IT
ORIGINALLY.
>>HOST: I THOUGHT IT WAS
ME IT HAS MORE MEANING M
TO IT.
>>GUEST: THERE IT IS ON
THE REVERSE COIN YOU SEE
THE LUNAR LANDING ON THE
MOON. THAT WAS THE
DESIGN OF THE COIN VERY
COOL ONE OF THE REASONS
WHY I LOVE THE WHY I LOV
EISENHOWER DOLLAR. AND
NONE OF THESE COINS WERE
RELEASED INDIVIDUALLY
THEY WERE ONLY RELEASED
IN SETS LIKE THE US
GOVERNMENT PROOF SET.
THIS IS A 1976
BICENTENNIAL POINT IS BI
NOT THE POINT WE HAVE
HERE BECAUSE THIS COIN H 188 00:05:08,967 IS NOT SILVER THIS CAME