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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3198117, member: 66&quot;]They wanted the Bicentennial coins to have wide distribution and to make sure there were enough of them that they would be really available.&nbsp; In order to do this they began production in early 1975 withthe first coins, the half dollar&lt; being released July 2nd 1975.&nbsp; They were soom followed by the quarter and then the dollar.&nbsp; 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 &quot;rarities&quot;.&nbsp; (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.)</p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; So we have 1974 dated coins, and 1976 dated coins but no 1975 quarters, halves, or dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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