1964 Nickels

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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?

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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

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and A lot of them have doubling of some type

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.

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.