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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2326335, member: 66&quot;]San Francisco sends clad proof planchets that do not &quot;measure up&quot; to quality standards to Denver to be used for circulation coins.&nbsp; The 40% silver planchets used for the 1976 bicentennial coins would be used for the business strike coins that year.&nbsp; A few got mixed in with the rejected clad planchets and shipped to Denver in error.&nbsp; That explains the 1974-D 40% silver coins (The 74&#039;s were struck through mid 75 while they were also striking the bicentennial coins), the 77-D&#039;s are a little harder to explain because they stopped striking the 40% silver bicentennials in 1975.&nbsp; So why were the silver planchets not shipped to Denver until 1977?&nbsp; Why not in 1976?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The 1873-S standard dollar and no arrows half dollar were struck, examples were shipped to Washington for the annual trial of the pyx.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>No other examples have ever been confirmed, but there have been rumors of them over the years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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