Exceptional Eisenhower Dollar Error Heads for the Auction Block!

Dallas, Texas: "This is, without a doubt, one of the most spectacular errors we have seen in recent years," said Greg Rohan, President of Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries.

"This die cap has the 'bottle cap' effect that is so desired on such errors," Rohan said, "with a high, raised rim all around. Instead of being ejected from the dies after the initial strike, the piece stuck to the obverse die, and was repeatedly struck against a series of newly fed planchets. The additional strikes caused the edges of the error coin to wrap around the collar of the obverse die."

"On this particular die cap," Rohan continued, "the rim is unusually high. The obverse design is extraordinarily sharp, and there are no recognizable design elements on the reverse--all of which indicate that this is a late-state cap. This is rare enough on lower denomination coins, when errors are more frequently encountered, but it is almost unheard of on a large denomination coin such as a dollar. This will, undoubtedly, serve as the centerpiece item for an advanced collection of errors."

Heritage Auction Galleries will offer the 1977-D $1 Eisenhower Dollar--Obverse Die Cap--MS67 NGC in their upcoming Signature Auction, August 13-14, 2006, to be held at The Warwick Denver Hotel, 1776 Grant Street, Denver, CO, 80203.

Images, descriptions, and prices realized from all of Heritage's previous auctions are available in the Permanent Auction Archives at the Heritage website, www.HA.com.

To reserve your copy of a catalog for any upcoming Heritage auction, please contact Nicole Jewell, c/o Heritage Auction Galleries, 3500 Maple Avenue, 17th Floor, Dallas, TX 75219, or call 1-800-872-6467, ext. 272.