Congratulations CT Member Cladking (Sam)!

Thanks all.

I think a lot of the credit goes to Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker.

I was never able to identify the markers for these so never made a systematic search for them. I knew these reverses were "different" and did set aside several rolls of coins with the "wrong" reverses back in the late-'70's and a lot were Denvers of these dates. There were a few I was able to identify but these still don't attract any interest for some reason.

I believe the type "b"s have a lot of potential especially in high grade (like VF). Herbert Hicks did search them systematically and estimates the mintage of some (like the '72-D) to be a mere 80,000. This might sound common but savings rates were so poor on these that most are gone now and the few left are in VG and mixed in with billions of other clad quarters. I believe that once people start collecting moderns these will even be valuable in VG.

 

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Indeed. I didn't know his modern collecting went back
to the beginning of U.S clads. That may make him the
contrarian king.

 

I always used to say it was RS Yeomen, then John J Pittman, then Herb Hicks, then me. Of course it probably isn't true but I say it anyway.

I watched the clads from the very first one I saw and tried to take apart. They weren't very interesting at first and I didn't notice the reverse varieties at first but over the years they just got more and more interesting. I started collecting them in 1972 but at first I wasn't as much a collector as a speculator.

Now I'm a collector.

 

When I first discovered CT, CK was one of the posters that, from the get-go, I knew I'd be following his posts. Good to see him getting the well deserved recognition.