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Message:: [QUOTE="BR549, post: 866840, member: 7110"]The 1965 clad coinage did not start rolling off the presses until late in that year and if you were in a state that did not have a Federal Reserve Branch, it wasn't until the early part of 1966 before you even seen the clads in circulation. The first clad coin I got to examine was a Washington quarter. It looked funny, it flipped funny and it hit the table top with a dull ring. In a handful of change, it stuck out like a sore thumb. I did not like it at all, thought it to be lifeless and drab, just like some cheaply made foreign goods. I knew no one who hoarded silver per-se, collected silver coins, yes, but in the true sense of stock piling silver to hedge inflation, no. I had a Aunt who filled up two 5 gallon water bottles with change from the day, you could not even lift the full one, must have weighed 135 lbs. Those jugs were about 60% silver, the other 40% was cents & nickels. Never knew what happened to them jugs, they prolly fell through the floor. It only took about 2-3 years for just about every silver coin to disappear. The feds had sorters that would kick out the silver coins as they were being counted...some smart cookies. The only silver content coins they allowed to return into circulation were the "War Nickels" Happy Collecting[/QUOTE]