How come there was no 1933 Washington Quarter minted?

AskRaq

I just googled this question.... and only came up with the 1933 double eagle information....

edix2001

It was the Great Depression.

holeinone1972

The 32 quarter was minted as a commemerative, later they decided to keep the serries up, skipping 33. That is my guess anyhow.

Shortgapbob

The state of the economy during the Great Depression minimized the need for new coinage. There were few 1933 coins in general. There were no Nickels, Dimes, Quarters or Dollars. The mintages of the Cents and Halves were fairly low.

ziggy29

The economy was in depression and didn't need the coins. From 1931 to 1933, coin production was greatly reduced. Only the cent saw production in all three years, and even there production was much lighter than normal.

Nickels and dimes weren't produced in 1932 or 1933.

Quarters weren't produced in 1931 or 1933, and may have only been produced in 1932 because the Washington quarter was originally designed to be a commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Washington's birth.

Halves weren't produced in 1930 through 1932, and only produced in San Francisco in 1933.

Dollars weren't produced from 1929 to 1933.

By 1934, the demand for new coinage (after three years of low/no production) rose and the Mints began producing large quantities of coinage again.

AskRaq

Thanks for the great input... I guess if you want a set of coins with consecutive dates, then you have to go with cents, eh?

ziggy29

<< <i>Thanks for the great input... I guess if you want a set of coins with consecutive dates, then you have to go with cents, eh? >>

Yeah. Plus, collectors born in 1931, 1932 or 1933 who wanted a "birth year set" were pretty much screwed!

hrlaser

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<< <i>Thanks for the great input... I guess if you want a set of coins with consecutive dates, then you have to go with cents, eh? >>

Yeah. Plus, collectors born in 1931, 1932 or 1933 who wanted a "birth year set" were pretty much screwed! >>



there was no US Mint Proof set my Birth year.. (although there WAS a gubmint-issued US Mint set (which i don't own (because i won't spend that much for one))).. and i'm under sixty.. in what year was i born?.. first correct answer gets a new Cadillac CTS with a big red ribbon around it (if you buy one yourself)..

ziggy29

<< <i>there was no US Mint Proof set my Birth year.. (although there WAS US Mint set (which i don't own (because i won't spend that much for one))).. and i'm under sixty.. in what year was i born?.. first correct answer gets a new Cadillac CTS with a big red ribbon around it (if you buy one yourself).. >>

Either 1948 or 1949.

I was born in 1965 and all my siblings are older. They could get proof coins, and silver...I get SMS clad.

hrlaser

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<< <i>there was no US Mint Proof set my Birth year.. (although there WAS US Mint set (which i don't own (because i won't spend that much for one))).. and i'm under sixty.. in what year was i born?.. first correct answer gets a new Cadillac CTS with a big red ribbon around it (if you buy one yourself).. >>

Either 1948 or 1949.

I was born in 1965 and all my siblings are older. They could get proof coins, and silver...I get SMS clad. >>



i feel your pain..

correct.. 1949.. enjoy your new Cadillac.. but i'm afraid i'll have to chainsaw it in half.. you want the front half or the back half?..

my late Dad was born in 1914.. do you know how many times i've fantasized about what if his Parents had bought their new baby a fifty cent roll of shiny new Denver "pennies" that year.. and if he would have kept them and i'd have inherited them and how i'd go about selling fifty high grade Mint State 1914-D cents so as to both get rich and not flood the market?.. or if he would have just spent them on bubble-gum and comic books when he got older.. and never kept a one.. sighhhhhhhhhhh.. but anyway, they didn't, and he never owned a single one.. i did buy a lowly VG-8 in a slab some years ago for about $75.00 though.. worth a little more now .. i bought it kinda half just to have one and half in his memory since he passed away in 1985..

tahoe98

<< <i>Thanks for the great input... I guess if you want a set of coins with consecutive dates, then you have to go with cents, eh?[/q

or hunt up a counterfeiter

RWB

In 1930 President Hoover warned Congress and the Treasury Dept. that he would veto any and all commemorative coin bills. Treasury staff used the impending Washington birth bicentennial to replace the much disliked Standing Liberty quarter with a design honoring Washington. The 1932 Washington quarter was issued as a direct replacement, and not as a one-year commemorative. (See Bowers’ Washington Quarter book in the Whitman Guide Book series.)

Annual coin production was driven by demand from National Banks and the regional Federal Reserve Banks. With the economy in a tailspin, there were sufficient existing coins of most denominations to meet commercial needs. The 6 million quarters struck in 1932 were more than enough. Thus, there was no demand for new quarters during calendar year 1933 and none were produced.

ProofArtworkonCircs

There was little demand for coins in the early 1930's. But in the case of the dollars 1929-1933, there was no bullion available and no authorization for them.

CaptHenway

Bottom line is that in very hard times people dig every coin out of piggy banks and dresser drawers and spend them. This returns coins to circulation, and reduces the demand for new ones to replace them.
TD

Griv

That should tell you something about our economy.

Overdate

mozeppa

yep thats a "overdate" (do-over-date)


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