Interesting Find From Circulation

Got 75 cents in change today two of the quarters were 1978 one of them was a small denticle variety. The icing on the cake was the third,It was a silver 1965 quarter.

 

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Defiant7,can you please post photos of these coins?

Aidan.

 

Wish I could but the denticles are to small to be seen with my camera.

 

a 1965 silver quarter? are you talking about the error?

 

there was no 1965 silver quarter. i had a 1965 quarter today and opined that it was not silver and how i never get silver in change.

-steve

 

Happy with the possibility

How many of the coins from the 1776-1976 are in possession (preferably the dollar pieces)?

Bicentennial Four three-piece sets (Quarter Dollar, Half Dollar, and Dollar) struck as Proofs but without mintmarks

 

I live in Canada its just a regular 1965 quarter, they are silver.

Not in the US, but Canada still used silver in quarters until mid 1968

 

I just assumed because my location says Western Canada and the post talks about denticles on the coins, people would figure out I was talking about Canadian coins. Won't make that mistake again.

 

I'm not an American coin collector (at least not in any significant fashion) but I once found an American 1912 dime lying on the floor in a flea market in a small Canadian town. I was sad in a way because some collector had obviously bought it from one of the stands, but nobody was in sight (including wherever they got it from) so it was a very nice grab for me. This was probably about 10 years ago, but even today it's still one of my older coins.

 

intrigue:
Welcome, and what are you asking?
Are you asking how many were made? How many do each of us have? or How many were saved (by everyone)?

 

this is the US Coins forum, the World Coins is the next one down

-Steve

 

Fair enough, but my post was not the first from an international poster in this thread.

 

i read your's LOL

 

oh! i thought you were from the states. thats a pretty nice find then, a silver quarter!:thumb:

 

Actually I was wondering How many of the proof sets were made? As well as how many were saved?

 

Interesting find

I was happy to find two 1902 liberty head nickels in my change jug.

 

nice finds! hard to belive those would still be in circulation!

 

Don't know if this is what you're asking, but here goes...

The 1776-1976 dollar is quite common. There are actually five different types with the silver clad one being the most expensive (but still under $10 on e-bay). The mintages range from 4,000,000 to over 100,000,000 for the five different kinds. As a general note, the 1776-1976 coins aren't really that rare or valuable. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing everyone saved and/or hoarded them back then.

The 3-piece bicentenniel proof set had a run of about 4,000,000 and goes for a little under $20 on e-bay. This is with the original packaging. There was also a special bicentenniel mint set that sells for about the same amount.

The no-mintmark dime is from 1975 and is very rare indeed. I don't think anyone knows how many were made, but I've seen that it would sell for more than $35,000.

 

Are you sure it's gold plated, and not just a well burnished planchet?