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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 8468149, member: 19250&quot;]John </p><p>Just look at mintages for 1964 across the board....</p><p>Cents combined 5,296,296,400</p><p>Nickels &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; 2,811,969,160</p><p>Dimes. &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; 2,286,877,180</p><p>Quarters &quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; 1,264,526,113</p><p>Highest mintages ever.....one must think that the 65,66,67 the sms as well the government fix was in </p><p>Again as its like they knew what was coming....and over produced .</p><p>I had bags of 64 nickels that not one had steps period more less full steps.</p><p>March of 1964 was the release of the Kennedy half....banks were out the 1st day they recived their allotments.&nbsp; </p><p>But come 1965...compare the mintages...then 66 and 67.... </p><p>&nbsp;I do believe that the mint didn&#039;t want coin hoarding.... just like 1865 and 66 when silver coins were now coined in Nickel copper....plus add the fact that two members of the house had&nbsp; huge interests in Nickel and copper mines. Go figure right? </p><p>Plus the government wanted to phase out silver in or on our money.... when $1 silver certificate&nbsp; were called in for a silver dollar...or a small 1oz.&nbsp; bag of silver grains. </p><p>When Roosevelt called in the gold.... many didn&#039;t want to turn it in as if a $5 gold piece didn&#039;t weight correctly and was lite you were paid the amount of gold ....more or less spot weight....dad spoke many times people upset as their gold face was $5 but only received $4.57&nbsp; gold was fixed at $35 @ oz&nbsp; and silver under $5 @ oz. </p><p>I am a firm believer that going off the silver standard ,and repealing the blue laws....were two major items or events that began the dollar to sink...and loose its buying power....</p><p>One only needs to google a inflation calculator and run the years 1963-1969. And see first hand the downward trend.&nbsp; Then the 1970&#039;s when the Saudi&#039;s were enlighten just how much American&#039;s loved their cars! ...and would pay anything to drive....so 1972 gas is under a buck but @70 cents a gallon,and a man made shortage....we were on even odd days to buy gas. </p><p>And a 1970 toyota used ...was worth more than Chevy or Ford.</p><p>History...didn&#039;t live durring this time google is your friend.....lots of information to understand the hows and why&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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