So I've noticed the there is no 1975 quarter made?

Just the bicentennial quarter 1776-1976? Totally forgotten about 1975?

 

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No ma-am.... The bicentennial series was a big deal at the time. In fact that was when my coin collecting fires started burning. We hadn't seen a change in coin designs for a loooong time and got pretty fired up when the bicentennial series came out. The mint produced the bicentennial quarter for two years, 1975 and 1976. They produced billions of them.

 

Thank you i I was wondering why this was. Lol

 

They wanted the Bicentennial coins to have wide distribution and to make sure there were enough of them that they would be really available. In order to do this they began production in early 1975 withthe first coins, the half dollar< being released July 2nd 1975. They were soom followed by the quarter and then the dollar. But that meant that the 1975 quarter half and dollar would have less than half a years production and that THEY could potentially be low mintage or "rarities". (At that point in time the Mint and Treasury Dept were rather anti-collector and the last thing they wanted to do was produce anything that might be considered scarce.)

So in order to prevent that from happenong legislation was passed that allowed a date freeze on the quarter, half, and dollar, permitting the Mint to keep used the 1974 date thru July of 1975. So we have 1974 dated coins, and 1976 dated coins but no 1975 quarters, halves, or dollars.

 

I know you weren't around then but it was a rare 'leap year'.
We skipped 1975 in order to keep the calendar in sync.

Won't happen again for another 100 years.

 

The Bicentennial was a huge event. Much larger than the next event, the year 2000. So many items were made for the 1976 celebration you could collect them your entire life and never get close.

It was after all, the 200th anniversary of the nation. Due to the day the law authorizing the change in coinage was signed, the time it takes to design, agree on the design and make the dies, 1975 was half over. So no quarters, half dollars or Ike dollars were produced. There was enough coin in change to hold out.

In mid 1975 the Bicentennial coinage was being produced and production didn't stop until the end of 1976. This coinage, especially quarters, were so highly produced it's not uncommon to find them in change today.

 

I remember buying a 1975 mint set many years ago and opened it up and at first glance I thought I received a 1976 in error, lol.

 

The 3 coin Silver Bicentennial Proof Set was the first set of collectable coins that I ever purchased for myself starting my collecting hobby. I bought it at one of the gift shops in the Washington DC area on a trip there.Still have it in the original packaging.

 

Authorization was signed in Oct 1973, designs were selected in March 1974 Dies would have been ready well before 1974 ended. The legislation freezing the 1974 dates was signed Dec of 1974.

 

oh good, so I'm not 43 then.. whew, I thought I was getting old.

 

Oh crap, does that mean I never graduated from high school? ...well, too late to go back now ...oh wow, my diploma must be counterfeit....no what, it makes sense because there's a lot of things I can't remember from back then so maybe they didn't happen either....

 

I used to have some bicentennial toilet paper from back then too. Original, in it's wrapper ... but ....or maybe I should say butt .....

I have the 3 coin silver and uncirc sets too though only bought in the last 20 years.

 

Is the white strip in the middle with the red and blue on the sides?

 

No, it looks like this:

 

That's it!! You stole my toilet paper ..

 

Is your name... oh nevermind.

 

I don't remember, remember?

 

If you're gonna make a misinformation/joke post, shouldn't you at least indicate that it is???

 

I thought my jokes were the funniest ones - including the intentional ones !!!