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Bedrock of the Community
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I still remember back in the late 60's and early 70's when I used to have fun betting people that if they had more than one Nickel in their possesion it would be 1964. I used to bet coffee at work on that. I think I won about 80% of the time. Most people would go nuts trying to figure "how did he know that"? Then I noticed starting about the mid 80's that no longer worked so I stopped with the betting. My averages were dropping.
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Rest in Peace
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I could be wrong but wasn't that the time where silver coins were done away with, and for some reason the mint continued cranking out 1964 dated coins well into 1965?
Can't remember the thinking behind it, but I'm sure the 1964 date was carried on into 1965.
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I was two years old in 1964 and I kept telling my parents to save all the silver they came in contact with but they ignored me like they still do today.
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Go through those nickels before using them. There is a rare error in the 1964 nickel. Pluribus was accidentally spelled with a d instead of a b on some of these nickels. Then they attempted to remove the d and replace it with the correct letter, B. It is still visible on the error nickels but difficult to see.  |
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wow I never knew that bout the mistake on the nickels. good to know since I have like 14$ in 1964's alone. and yeah I was thinking it was 1964 with the quarters but your right its like always the 65 or 66. I was collecting them for a while cause htey were older then when I realised there was a never ending limit of them I quit. I never relized at first though that I kept getting those years till I went back and looked at them when I really got into the collecting coins
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Originally posted by thingee
Go through those nickels before using them. There is a rare error in the 1964 nickel. Pluribus was accidentally spelled with a d instead of a b on some of these nickels. Then they attempted to remove the d and replace it with the correct letter, B. It is still visible on the error nickels but difficult to see.
got a picture of that error by chance |
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Originally posted by thingee
Go through those nickels before using them. There is a rare error in the 1964 nickel. Pluribus was accidentally spelled with a d instead of a b on some of these nickels. Then they attempted to remove the d and replace it with the correct letter, B. It is still visible on the error nickels but difficult to see.
Found This: "A rarity that can be easily overlooked is the 1964-D, Breen #2758. It's listed as the 1964-D PLURIDUS, Very Scarce. In 1964 the U.S. Mint polished and reworked the reverse die to remove die clash marks (marks that most commonly appear in the field of subsequent strikes after the obverse and reverse dies have contacted each other when there was no planchet to receive the respective strike). Despite the good intentions of removing the clash marks, mint worker polished the reverse die field so much that the center of the B in E PLURIBUS UNUM was polished off. Thus, it appears that the word PLURIBUS is instead PLURIDUS. The R and I are far apart. The right uprights of U's are thin. Reviewing an unsearched bag of 5000 common Jeffersons yielded one of this variety." For what it is worth..... MM  |
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Thanks for the specifics MorganMan. b I don't own any of these nickels Bruce 1947, but now everyone knows who does!!!  |
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Originally posted by Tykimeister
I hate finding 1965 quarters. JUST ONE YEAR OFF! Give a guy a break... lol
Ahhh look at those very Carfully for Silver struck 1965 of course that was a mistake, but otherwise I would agree with you!!! |
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Originally posted by morganman
quote:
Originally posted by thingee
Go through those nickels before using them. There is a rare error in the 1964 nickel. Pluribus was accidentally spelled with a d instead of a b on some of these nickels. Then they attempted to remove the d and replace it with the correct letter, B. It is still visible on the error nickels but difficult to see.
Found This:
"A rarity that can be easily overlooked is the 1964-D, Breen #2758. It's listed as the 1964-D PLURIDUS, Very Scarce.
In 1964 the U.S. Mint polished and reworked the reverse die to remove die clash marks (marks that most commonly appear in the field of subsequent strikes after the obverse and reverse dies have contacted each other when there was no planchet to receive the respective strike).
Despite the good intentions of removing the clash marks, mint worker polished the reverse die field so much that the center of the B in E PLURIBUS UNUM was polished off. Thus, it appears that the word PLURIBUS is instead PLURIDUS.
The R and I are far apart. The right uprights of U's are thin. Reviewing an unsearched bag of 5000 common Jeffersons yielded one of this variety."
For what it is worth.....
MM
YEP. I sure love My Breen!!! |
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Originally posted by imanangel0686
Is there a reason that it seems like there is a whole lot of 1964 nickels, actually 1964 in all coins. Every time I go looking at coins I keep finding piles of 1964's. Did they make a lot of all coins that year?
They made more 1964 sets Mint&proof than the hole run of pennies nickel dime and quarter from sets 1950-1963 Mint & Proof set wise than in 1 year 1964 243 billion I think Image Insert: Image Insert: and A lot of them have doubling of some type  |
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Valued Member
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The extra nickels were produced in 1964 in anticipation of the hoarding of silver dimes and quarters. 1964 Silver dimes and quarters were produced thru 1965 into the spring of 1966 in an attempt to give the impression that silver was not being hoarded. They failed.
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Pillar of the Community
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There were really two date freezes in effect. Initially they said that they'd keep coining the 1964 silver coins indefinitely and then the coinage act of 1965 gave them the authority to continue with 1965 coinage until the secretary of the Treasury deemed it desirable to do otherwise. The Bible bill was in Congress which would have effectively outlawed most coin collecting and there were rumblings that the '65 date would last forever. It was a real relief to see the '66 date in late summer.
The coin shortage was declared licked by 1968 and mint marks were restored. Proof and mint set sales also resumed and there were nop further shortages until cents started disappearing in 1974 because copper prices were soaring.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Valued Member
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that all explains a lot, thanks for the help
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Pillar of the Community
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Regarding the Breen variety, Breen often called things rare when they later became simply scarce. This he calls very scarce.
However, as a reground die, it has never become as popular as (for example) the 1937 S three legged buffalo.
In fact, the only reference to the variety is Breen.
If there was any popularity, it would have become listed in Cherrypickers.
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