Are there Silver Quarters from 1965?

Yes, there are 1965 silver quarters. Best place nowadays to watch for them would be in "junk" silver hoards. A lot of people buy "junk" silver but never closely check the dates.

There are also 1965 silver Roosevelt dimes.

Here's what a 1965 silver quarter looks like...
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....best way to check is with an accurate scale. a clad quarter should weigh 88 grains

or 5.7 grams. a silver quarter will weigh 96.6 grains or 6.3 grams.

 

Please re-refer to the Redbook because you aren't as good as you think. The quarters were NOT .400 til 1970 or 71. The ONLY .400 fine silver quarters were the 1976-S Unc and some of the 1976-S proofs. The half dollars of 1965 - 1970 were .400 fine. The 1971's were CuNi clad.

 

I have a 1965 silver quarter

I came across one of these quarters a few weeks ago, and it definitely sounds different than the other quarters and the side of the quarter is all silver, no other colors. How much could this quarter be worth?

 

Don't go by color or sound, what does it weigh? And if the weight is correct for a silver quarter I would still want a specific gravity test to make absolutely sure. Speculating about value until you are SURE what you have is putting the cart before the horse.

 

Question, if quarters from 1965-1969 are not 40% silver like the halves, why are their so many fewer around than were 3 or 4 years ago. I know the gov't has been printing new quarters, is this the reason, are they taking the older ones out. WHy were not the quarters 40% silver if the halves were and the Eisenhaur $'s were...just curious.

 

People pull them out of circulation just because they perceive that because of the date on the coin that they are rare now. In reality they are as common as dirt, especially in well worn condition. On the 40% halves, I have retired nearly 75 of them in the past two or three months. They are out there.

 

I doubt you are really seeing fewer '65 to '69 quarters than in the past. Yes, each year more and more of these are accidently thrown away or get burned in fires and lost in floods but this is a slow steady attrition rather than something sudden or something that might be seen over only a few years.

More than half of these older quarters are gone now and more than a third of the survivors are damaged and/ or excessively worn but they are still out there. It's possible that one or more of the Federal Reserve districts are withdrawing culls and heavily worn coins and I'm not aware of it. This mixed with a little coincidence could make these old quarters look positively "rare".

 

The government would rather have gotten rid of ALL the silver in 1965. The agreement to leave the half dollars at 40% silver was a bone thrown to the Congressmen and Senators of the silver producing states in order to secure their votes on the coinage act of 1965 that gave us the clad coinage composition. Likewise the 40% silver was a bone both to the silver states and to the coin collectors to give them a real silver "silver" dollar. And none of the 40% Ikes were made for circulation. The brown Ikes threw bones at a lot of people, the silver states, the coin collectors, and the congressmen of New York who got a provision added that gave one dollar from the sale of every Proof Silver Ike to Eisenhower College (student body of around 460 students) in Senaca Falls New York. This gave the school almost $10 million dollars between 1971 and 1974. (Oddly enough I seem to recall the 1990 Ike Centennial dollar also gave money to the college, but Eisenhower College closed in 1979.)

 

Now I'm curious, were the Series 1957-B $1 silver certs and the 1953-B and '53-C $2 and $5 red seals printed on wet paper?

 

One time I got a 1969-D as change at a vwending machine.

 

I like collecting off metal errors. It is statistically very unlikely you found one. Send it in to pcgs or ngc because if it is a real one it will be worth enough money that coin dealers you show it to might try to rip you off.

 

Vic, Vulturi last posted about 4 years ago, so probably isn't checking his mail.

 

Awesome that's what happens in life when you don't read the fine print

 

Yes, but all the Series 1963 FRN's and Legal Tenders(red seals) were printed on dry paper.

 

I've got a 66 that looks clad with 90% silver

 

A worn down quarter

 

the patina looks like silver. I've seen others from 65 that have similar finishes to them.