These coins, which were struck in 1975 and 1976, feature the year range "1776-1976" on the front under Ike's portrait. Some of these bicentennial silver dollars were struck on silver, and these ...

Jeffrey Frank is the author of Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage, to be published in February by Simon and Schuster. He was a senior editor at The New Yorker and the deputy ...