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You mean now I have to learn the periodic table? Nope, just Au, Ag, Cu, Ni, Al, Zn, Sn, Fe, and maybe a few others.  |
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There are no potassium coins, so you won't have to learn K.
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There are no potassium coins, so you won't have to learn K. MWAAHAHHAHAAAAAA!!  ... and NO, I don't have any silver specimens... Incidentally, from what I have seen, many just look like tarnished metallic threads. Let's see, without looking them up: Au - ? Ag - silver Cu - copper? Ni - nickel Al - aluminum Zn - zinc Sn - ? Fe - iron |
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You got the easy ones. |
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 Hey now, I wasn't deemed smart enough to take chemistry class in school, OK? Nooooo... I went and took LATIN in middle school because I thought it would help me in English class.  AU = gold (well GEESH I forgot about THAT important one!!) SN = tin (didn't even think of that one) Staying on topic, I just checked and it wasn't the 1776-1976 quarter that I have one shiny one of (that is a future post of mine). Turns out all I have are three no-mint-mark examples, and one D. None are the silvers. Because this is a learning thread, I'll post a pic anyway.  |
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Quote:These were 40% silver like the '65-'70 Kennedy halves and the silver Eisenhower dollars. 80% silver outer layers bonded to a 20.9% silver inner core. I really am having trouble with this one. 40% silver coins are made from 100.9% silver?  |
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This forum is a constant source of amusement, and of course education. I need my daily fix.  Carry on! Edited by Coinfrog
11/10/2020 10:14 pm
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I assume strike and relief may be signs to differentiate these. Any other tells? Those are it except for practical purposes all of the high speed coins are heavily marked. They also have rough uneven surfaces as opposed to the mint set quality coins that have flat surfaces. They are apparent at a glance they are so different. I do have a couple high speed versions which are fairly clean but they still look very different that the others. The irony is they made these high speed coins over a few days in July because they reinterpreted the law to mean they had to strike 14 million coins rather than it being the upper limit. There was no demands so the coins were all dumped in 55 gallon barrels and rolled into storage. When the others were gone in late-'76 or in '77 they began making sets of these poorer quality coins. Sales were as dismal as the coins until around November of 1980 when they were briefly available at less than silver spot. The prices were raised and sales crashed again. Most of the ones purchased for less than spot went straight into the melting furnaces. Despite the very high mintage and poor quality of these coins they are rarely seen. They might never have a premium but if you see a set in plastic without the white strip that's it. They are distinct so I consider them the 5th type of bicentennial quarter. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Very interesting! Thank you for the background on them.  |
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Very interesting! Thank you for the background on them. I did neglect to mention that almost the entire mintage of the high speed version was melted ~1982. Sales are unknown but they obviously were not very high. Everyone who wanted these bought the nice ones in 1976 and everybody who bought the poor ones later had no interest in reordering. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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So you are saying they minted all those extra coins (at high speed) when they didn't HAVE to? Geesh...
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So you are saying they minted all those extra coins (at high speed) when they didn't HAVE to? Geesh... Well they didn't need to but no one wanted to wait until it was too late if they had to. Laws are written ambiguously just so lawyers can stay busy. In this case they kept the mint busy unnecessarily. Of the some 11,000,000 extra sets produced sales at profit were probably fewer than 100,000. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Laws are written ambiguously just so lawyers can stay busy. Truth.  |
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There are five versions not counting varieties and errors.
'76 (P) clad
'76-D clad
'76-S 40% ag
'76-S 40% ag (from high speed press)
'76-S 40% ag PRF
The clads were made for circulation and the ag was made for collectors and few circulated. Why no mention of the 76-S clad proof? That would be the 5th version and the high speed press silver would be a variety IMHO. Edited by ratman4762
11/14/2020 2:22 pm
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Why no mention of the 76-S clad proof? That would be the 5th version and the high speed press silver would be a variety IMHO. D'oh. I felt like I was forgetting something. There was a '76 no-S PR made in Philly as well, I believe, but none survive. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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