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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1754524, member: 15929&quot;]This is difficult to say since big dollar coin purchases have more to do with &quot;popularity&quot; than actual rarity. In other words, if a coin has an acceptable story (whether its true or not) then the coin will attract attention. Big ticket buyers like to have something to say about what they spent thousands or hundreds of thousands on. If there&#039;s no story, then folks could care less.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1965 was actually a banner year in coin production as the US Mint settled on the copper-nickel cladding and once production started, they quickly realized how hard these coins actually are! Usually, the bigger the coin, the more difficult they were to produce.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Not only that, but the overall quality of the coins kinda sucked due in paret to the hardness of the metal squished up against that soft copper core. Unlike actual nickels which were a consistent metal throughout the coin, these copper nick clad coin were not and the end result can be seen in the quality of the coins themselves.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For the above reasons, a lot of these were not saved since everybody felt that the other guy would save them. The net result is that original bank bags or bank rolls of 1965 quarters could show a significant premium over face value.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Are the individual coins worth keeping? Probably not but they do need to be checked for the doubled dies. You see, since the doubled dies represented a certain low percentage of production, the longer folks go without looking for them, then the harder they will be to find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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