Forgotten Bicentennial Designs

Yeah, the thing about these designs is that they were only minted for two years and then they went back to the original reverses. So that's what made them all the more special, in my mind.

I Love the 75-76 coins. This is what got me into coin collecting.

Ironic...
As much as I really enjoyed the Bicentennials when they came out, I used to dream about finding a normal 1975 quarter, half and Ike. Then a few years ago Daniel Carr started to make some over strike fantasy 1975 coins of all three denominations. I was as excited about owning one of each of the fantasy coins (hey, I had dreamed about them for years!) as I was the original 1976 coins when they came out.

Just imagine that no matter which friend of yours you saw they would say, "Hey, have you seen one of THESE yet?" as they handed you a Bicentennial quarter. It was that exciting (at least where I was!).

I was in elementary school.

I was born in the early 80s, but finding the "drummer boy" quarter in pocket change during the 90s is a thrill that helped get me into coin collecting. I think its one of our nation's best coin designs.

I don't think the quarter design is "largely forgotten". I had 7 of them in the last change can I took to the bank and I know there's at least one in the current can. It was a great design. I still have the ones I grabbed back then but maybe it's time to toss most of them back into the mix. I'm not sure if I ever ran into the half or dollar in circulation though.

I was on the "bicentennial committee" at our church as a student representative, senior in high school, where we organized stuff for our local event, and all the events surrounding the bicentennial were highly anticipated. I don't recall a lot of excitement over the coins though, but it's probably lost in the blur of all the other stuff like fireworks and ringing the old church bell.

Designs are not forgotten by me. I have a set of clad coins in a holder that sits on my home office desk.