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This mint error set is featured in the upcoming January 2025 FUN US Coins Signature® Auction #1380.
From the Heritage auction listing:
1973-S Eisenhower Dollar -- Struck on Three Clad Dime Planchets -- PR65 PCGS. A spectacular mint error certain to command attention in any display. Three clad planchets intended for proof Roosevelt dime dies were instead simultaneously struck by a single pair of proof Ike dollar dies. The three planchets touched, but did not overlap. They formed a "clover leaf" pattern that consisted of an upper left planchet, an upper right planchet, and a lower planchet centered beneath the upper two planchets.
The San Francisco mintmark is present on the lower piece, as is the right portion of IN GOD WE TRUST. The date is complete on the lower piece with the exception of the lower half of the 1. Ike's profile is complete on the upper left coin, aside from the bottom of the chin. E PLURIBUS UNUM is complete on the reverse of the lower piece. The eagle is evenly divided between the three coins with the head and and left (facing) wing on the upper left piece, the tail on the upper right piece, and the right (facing) wing mostly on the lower piece. ONE DOLLAR, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and the planet Earth are incompletely divided across two of the three pieces.
Surprisingly, we have offered a similar mint error in a prior auction. An undated proof Eisenhower dollar "clover leaf" error struck on three clad dime planchets appeared as lot 5090 in our 2021 Central States Signature, where it sold for $105,000. The present lot has a mintmark and a nearly full date, which makes it even more desirable.
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