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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 130019, member: 68&quot;]Thanks for the clarification Conder101.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a very bad time for people who were interested in circulating coinage.&nbsp; Not only were most of the old coins disappearing but the new coins were supremely boring because they carried the same date and had no mint marks.&nbsp; Even if you were still interested in the coins they were horribly made.&nbsp; The mint was trying to make as many coins as possible to combat the coin shortage and were straining at their production limits.&nbsp; This meant dies were used beyond their useful life and tonnages were decreased to the point that the designs were weakly struck.&nbsp; And these mintages were huge.&nbsp; Other than the &#039;64 the mintages were in ranges that were simply unprecedented.&nbsp; Billions of each the dimes and quarters were made and since future years were expected to carry the same date these coins would never get &quot;old&quot;.&nbsp; It wouldn&#039;t be possible anymore to watch coins wear away in circulation and mix in with those from other mints.&nbsp; Also one had the sense that something had been taken away as well.&nbsp; In the past you earned good silver for your efforts and now you might get a debased coin of the same design instead.&nbsp; All this with the rapidly rising price of silver assured that the old coins would continue to disappear.&nbsp; Even after the restoration of dates and mintmarks it was still a few years before circulating coinage was interesting again simply because it was so predictable and so many of the coins were XF/ AU &#039;65- &#039;67 issues.&nbsp; The mint didn&#039;t rotate their coin stocks until 1972 so it wasn&#039;t unusual to find rolls of brand new 1965 coins right up to 1975 being issued for circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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