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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1950914, member: 27832&quot;]Probably because mintages were HUGE. 1964-dated coins were struck well into 1965. I don&#039;t have references handy, but I&#039;ve read that the total mintage of 1964 halves was more than the total mintage of the ENTIRE Franklin half series. I imagine it was the same story for quarters and dimes.&nbsp; Even nickels were produced in huge numbers; when I was a kid in the late 1960s, it seemed like half the nickels I saw in circulation were dated 1964.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the coin composition change was announced, people started hoarding silver coins, and there was a tremendous shortage of circulating coins. The government responded by minting huge numbers of 1964 silver coins to combat the perception of a shortage; those coins were hoarded, too. It took a couple of years for things to stabilize.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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