Team CoinTalk, What is the most hard to find/expensive post 1964 coin available to the general public today A coin one might get in change after buying a cheeseburger or a sixpack. Which one is it, in your opinion? Take Care Bone
Can it be an error....or just a normal coin....if its just normal I would say a BU 1983 quarter.... Speedy
Back in the '80's a '76 PR $1 was pulled out of a cash register that sold for $40,000 about three years back. There's not much chance of another of these appearing. Some of the sac/ state 25c mules found in change have sold for up to $80,000. Most of the major rarities that you are most likely to find have prices only in the $500 to $1000 range at the current time but prices on these are likely to be far higher as time goes on.
A 2004 Wisconsin State Quarter (with Low Leaf or High Leaf error) will net you a nice sum. Also, if anyone placed any of the Cheerio's Sacagawea's into circulation, well, let's just say that I'd love to find one of those!!
These were essentially prototype proofs struck in Philadelphia very early on in the program. They were intended for promotional purposes and to be given to each of the designers but all indications are that most or all but one were unceremoniously destroyed. It's unknown how this piece escaped but is the only known proof of a regular issue struck in Philly sans mintmark. In that era there was simply no interest in new coins. The mint made no effort to preserve much of anything and collectors rarely noticed.
I think since it can be an error that would make the Proof dimes missing S mint maks on the of most $$$....I think one of the years that happened was 1990 Speedy
The 1964 clad quarter was discovered in circulation. There are numerous quarters circulating with the "wrong" reverses. These get little changes in most years and sometimes a reverse from one year will be paired with an obverse from another year. This probably happens during changeover at the beginning of the year when the technicians simply forget whether they changed a die or not. One of the more common is the 1965 with reverse of 1964. About 200,000 are estimated to have been made but many of these have been lost or destroyed over the years and very few are known in collectors' hands. There are '71-D and '72-D DDR 25c's. These should be fairly common since dies strike so many coins but fewer than a dozen are known of the formes and just a pair of the latter. There's a DDO D bicentennial that will bring more than $1000. ...Again, only a few dozen known and there should be a lot more. There are lots of more minor coins like '82-NMM dime and '74-D DDO 50c that are out there. I've seen the '82-NMM in low grade so it has been circulating. About 10,000 of these were released into the commerce in early 1983 around Sandusky, Ohio and Pittsburgh. It's likely that this estimate was overly conservative.
Born same year as me :whistle: I just got a birth year proof set for Christmas... As for the question, I hardly ever get SBA's or Sacs from Burger King, and never got a war nickel in change from shopping
I get Sacagaweas and SBAs all the time in change, but only from post office vending machines. Also get them from the RTD ticket machines, but don't ride the light rail much. I did get a 1945-S war nickel in my drawer where I work once, but it was very worn down, could barely read the mint mark.
The chances of getting a valuable old coin in circulation were about zero in 1957 and has fallen dramatically since that time. It is fun to see a fifty year old nickel or a nearly hundred year old cent in pocket change but, without exception, these will have only nominal value at best. Or look at it another way; In 1945 a war nickel would buy a candy bar but today it's worth much less. This is also true for the silver coins or any of the "rare" dates one was likely to find in 1957 as well.
