Happy 60th Anniversary

pocketpiececommems

Picked these out of pocket change recently

Mr_Spud

So it’s the 60th anniversary of clad coinage, cool 😎

coinbuf

A reason for cladking to celebrate. I personally prefer pre 65.

MsMorrisine

lower left has a good bit of meat on it

pocketpiececommems

Agree with the lower left. The obv definitely wears more than the Rev

sellitstore

Top two VG-F, bottom VF-XF?

They look to have held up much longer than the silver alloy.

golden

I remember the changeover very well.

PerryHall

@golden said:
I remember the changeover very well.

So do I. I remember going to the bank and getting a roll of 1965 clad quarters. Clad coins with the copper visible on the edge were quit a novelty for coin collectors at the time while the general public didn't care or even notice. I remember LBJ telling Americans not to bother saving the silver coins from circulation since they will never be valuable because they will always be very common.

jfriedm56

I remember trading a shiny new 1964 Washington for a shiny new 1965 Washington. Looking back now, it wasn’t the best trade I ever made!

winesteven

I don’t own a single coin dated 1965, lol.

Steve

Overdate

@PerryHall said:

I remember going to the bank and getting a roll of 1965 clad quarters.

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I was actively roll searching at the time, and my first exposure to the clads was when they started showing up in rolls of quarters. At first I found only 2 or 3 clads in a typical roll, but after a month or two the proportion of clads increased rapidly.

BillJones

I remember my uncle in law saying that the clad quarter was a sign that the country was going to h*ll.

pocketpiececommems

I got my first clad quarter at the local pool hall. Saved them for awhile and the just spent them. Kinda like when the Lincoln Memorial cents when they first came out

Cameonut

Here are a few 1965 SMS pieces.