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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2116863, member: 68&quot;]I believe you&#039;re mistaken.&nbsp; I have the mint reports but haven&#039;t read them in years.&nbsp; As I remember San Francisco struck all denominations from 1965 to 1967.&nbsp; It&#039;s true that no dies are known to have been used for both SMS and business strikes but only a small percentage of SMS dies are identifiable and only a tiny percentage of the San Francisco output has been checked for varieties.&nbsp; I&#039;m more confident that quarter dies were reused than other denominations.&nbsp; San Francisco stopped making most coins for circulation at the end of 1967.&nbsp; Of course this could be mere coincidence as well. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The country was in a coin shortage and the mints were running almost full out for three years.&nbsp; The die shop was the bottleneck in those days so it would certainly make sense to reuse dies.&nbsp; I have seen business strike quarters and nickels that appear to be struck from SMS dies.&nbsp; There are, of course, other explanations for how this might occur if I&#039;m right.&nbsp; This was a most exceptional era.&nbsp; The new coins were almost completely ignored by almost everybody.&nbsp; The effects of this will persist indefinitely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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