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riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
HitRed wrote:
Dukasaur wrote: That was the night I broke into St. Mike's Cathedral and shat on the Archibishop's desk
Dukasaur wrote:In bats we trust!
Worked for Gotham!
Dukasaur wrote: That was the night I broke into St. Mike's Cathedral and shat on the Archibishop's desk
autoload wrote:I can't let a 2dimes topic fall off the first page.
In 1964, there was a severe shortage of coins.[31] Silver prices were rising, and the public responded by hoarding not only the wildly popular new coin, the Kennedy half dollar, but the other denominations, including the non-silver cent and nickel.[32] Hopeful that issuing more 1964-dated coins would counter the speculation in them, the Treasury obtained Congressional authorization to continue striking 1964-dated coins into 1965.[33]
The Mint's production of coins rapidly depleted the Treasury's stock of silver. Prices for the metal were rising to such an extent that, by early June 1965, a dollar in silver coin contained 93.3 cents' worth of it at market prices. On June 3, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson announced plans to eliminate silver from the dime and quarter in favor of a clad composition, with layers of copper-nickel on each side of a layer of pure copper. The half dollar was changed from 90% silver to 40%.[34] Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1965 in July, under which the Mint transitioned from striking 1964-dated silver quarters to striking 1965-dated clad quarters.[35] Beginning on August 1, 1966, the Mint began to strike 1966-dated pieces, and thereafter it resumed the normal practice of striking the current year's date on each piece.[36]
The new clad quarters were struck without mint mark in 1965–1967, regardless of the mint of origin. Beginning in 1968, mint marks were used again, except that Philadelphia continued to issue coins without them. The San Francisco Mint had reopened, but from 1968, it struck quarters only for collectors, for the most part proof coins.[37] The Mint adjusted both sides of the coin for the initiation of clad coinage, lowering the relief (the modified reverse design exists on some 1964-dated silver quarters). The obverse was slightly changed in 1974, with some details sharpened.[38] Mint marks on post-1967 pieces are found on the lower right of the obverse, to the right of Washington's neck.[39]
2dimes wrote:Oh good, you're here to ruin another one of my threads with your boring copy pasting.
Well go ahead with your next move, quote me then complain about the grammar and spelling errors.
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