Eisenhower Or Ike Dollar Specifications And Details
The new one-dollar coin would be the same diameter and approximately the same thickness as previous minted silver dollars, but the composition would be a copper-nickel clad base metal composition that is dictated by the Coinage Act of July 23, 1965. Mint engraver Frank Gasparro represented this historic event on the reverse by adapting the Apollo XI insignia from NASA. It was President Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower who authorized the creation of NASA in 1958....