My Dad's Finds While Working At A Bank In The 70's

I think the quarter was exposed to high heat (fire, blowtorch, etc). I don't see it having any value.

@spence, unfortunately I don't have a scale but it feels like it's about half the appropriate weight or less.

Very nice, I do not have a counterfeit 25C. Have 5c, 50C, and $1, my fake 1C is a numismatic forgery.

5c




It is made of lead and weighs 6.52 gm. Somehow I determined the date is 1960. Again, it seems like a lot of work in the 60s for a nickel.

1974 cents were made in lg date and sm dts. Nice sm dts are much less common. Additionally, and more likely he was aware of it at the time, '74-S cents were mixed with production of other mints (mostly Denver) to discourage hoarding.

There was no particular reason to save nickels except that very few were being saved and with the large mintages they might have been overlooked. They were not.

'74-P quarters were the only coins that year undersaved but this isn't apparent due to lack of demand and still ample supplies of mint sets. These were very poorly made so few bothered to set any aside. They were produced right up through mid-1975 so mintage was very high.

The better coins of 1974 are still unrecognized and are mostly choice P 25 c and any gemmy small date cent. The nickels are common with FS but are a little tough in nice Gem w/ FS.