Posted 01/26/2010 2:10 pm
There are a few little errors and omissions but it's pretty well written really. My biggest problem with it is probably the title. Collectors were cold to these coins really. They simply stopped all coin collecting dead in its tracks ands it didn't recover until the states coins were issued in 1999. It not only stopped the coins that had been silver it even stopped the collecting of cents and nickels. Where rolls and bags had been saved in the past it's difficult to even find singles of many post-1964 coins. New collectors became nearly as rare as collectors of new coins for decades after this. The hobby simply stagnated as collectors moved from one hot item to another for the next third of a century.
There was also a date freeze for 1965 coins. This was very short lived but at one time people believed that all future coins would carry the 1965 date. This was a bucket of cold water in the face of collectors. The suspension of mint and proof sets were just another slap in the face for collectors who needed no encouragement from Sen Bible to stay far away from the new coins.
It should be added that the mint obviously knew the real cause of the coin shortage; silver hoarding. Look at the mintages of the cents and nickels in the early clad years. They are actually lower asa the mint was crankjing out billions of horribly made clads.
While there's no real way to tell any of the '65- '67 issues apart by where they were made there are many of these whose origin can be shown. It's also a safe bet that all of these issues made by basined dies were either in mint sets struck in San Francisco or were struck in San Francisco from retired SMS dies.
There was also a date freeze for 1965 coins. This was very short lived but at one time people believed that all future coins would carry the 1965 date. This was a bucket of cold water in the face of collectors. The suspension of mint and proof sets were just another slap in the face for collectors who needed no encouragement from Sen Bible to stay far away from the new coins.
It should be added that the mint obviously knew the real cause of the coin shortage; silver hoarding. Look at the mintages of the cents and nickels in the early clad years. They are actually lower asa the mint was crankjing out billions of horribly made clads.
While there's no real way to tell any of the '65- '67 issues apart by where they were made there are many of these whose origin can be shown. It's also a safe bet that all of these issues made by basined dies were either in mint sets struck in San Francisco or were struck in San Francisco from retired SMS dies.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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