Do you remember when and where you received your first clad coin in change?

291fifth

For me it was early February, 1966. I was at the Northern Illinois University field house buying a ticket to an event and I received a clad quarter in change. The coin was dated 1965. (Keep in mind that production of the clad coins didn't begin until well into 1965.)

Did anyone actually receive a 1965 dated clad coin in change in 1965? I can't recall when they were actually first released into circulation.

astrorat

Almost all the "silver" coins I have ever received in change have been clad.

dogwood

Speedy Mart Harwood Lane San Jose, Ca.
The first time I was allowed to walk down and get a Slurpie by myself. 1967, Summer before first grade.
I didn't didtinguish between clad and silver. It was all glorious money to me.

TopographicOceans

My mom used to put the silver change in a See's candy box.

Unfortunately, when she didn't have money to pay the milkman she would pay him in silver dollars and quarters from the See's candy box.

Cameonut

I remember when they came out, but didn't care enough about it to remember exact time and place. What I remember is the funny sound the clads made when you dropped them on the counter. Didn't sound like real money.

What I do remember is that my mom pulled quarters out of her and dad's change and put it in an empty milk bottle on the top shelf of the pantry. She was saving for a dishwasher - one of those newfangled inventions. Expensive at about $200 or so. Not long after the clads came out, we had a new dishwasher.

BryceM

In 1978 I was in grade school and went across the big street to buy a candy bar from the gas station. It was the first purchase I remember making "all by myself". I'm sure I received some clad change at that point.

I have no memory of ever seeing silver in change. I'm sure it happened at least once, as I did find a silver clad Kennedy in some stuff I threw in a bag during my early collecting days. Kennedys were actually quite common in my neck of the woods (Rocky Mountains) while growing up. They didn't really go away until the mid to late 1980s.

Shamika

I was born in 1966 so clad coinage is all I've ever known.

The idea that silver circulated in main stream commerce just blows my mind!!!

lkeigwin

I was in 7th grade and I brought a clad quarter to school to show around. I was horrified when my teacher dropped it on the floor to hear the ring.
Lance.

OnlyGoldIsMoney

I was 10 and remember the moment distinctly.

It was a Saturday in November 1965 as my brother, cousin and myself returned from the local Coca-Cola bottling plant with our free footballs. That Fall if you collected a sufficient number of Coke bottle caps with NFL player images (under the cork) you can claim a free football, megaphone and other NFL related items. As we admired our footballs on the way home my uncle handed around a shiny clad quarter. I recall realizing it contained no silver.

ProofArtworkonCircs

I remember it was a struggle to get one. It seems as if all the bankers were told not to give them out to people who wanted them, lest they turned out to be collectors and hoarders. A friendly bank teller eventually let me have a couple. I still have one of them.

Walkerfan

<< <i>I was born in 1966 so clad coinage is all I've ever known.

The idea that silver circulated in main stream commerce just blows my mind!!! >>



Me too!

Lakesammman

I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday - are you kidding??

pocketpiececommems

At the local pool hall

lordmarcovan

I was born in '65, so I wouldn't remember the introduction of clad coinage.

I do remember the Bicentennial coins, Ike dollars circulating, and the rollout of the SBA dollars.

I remember when I started collecting in '76, and an elderly neighbor gave me a 1964 quarter. He was an unkempt old wino and probably near his last days, but I remember him fondly because he was one of my first numismatic mentors and always had time for a kid like me. He had a 1921 Morgan dollar pocket piece which was the first silver dollar I'd ever seen. It really "wowed" me.

But anyway, he gave me this 1964 quarter and I thanked him but said it was just a "regular quarter". That's when he educated me about silver versus clad.

determined

As a little kid I remember the change over to clad. But my very first clad eludes me.




<< <i>Speedy Mart Harwood Lane San Jose, Ca.
The first time I was allowed to walk down and get a Slurpie by myself. 1967, Summer before first grade.
I didn't didtinguish between clad and silver. It was all glorious money to me. >>



Ha. I now live less than a block from were it was.

UncleJoe

I don't remember the actual date/year but I do remember when I found out there was a difference. I was about 10 or 11 and one of my chores was to take the clothes to the laundry. I couldn't get the machine to accept my quarters. The attendant came over and said that my quarters would not work in the machine and he switched my clad quarters for his silver quarters!

Joe.

BillJones

Since every new coin was exciting to me at that time, I have vague recollection of receiving a clad quarter, but it is not vivid. The main thing I do remember is one of my uncles, who had served in World War II and had worked at the Pentagon, committing about how, "The country was going to hell," when he received his first clad coin.

ricko

No.... I was raising kids and fresh out of the Navy... my coins were relegated to storage in my 'man cave' where I also studied electronics...long days of work, kids and studies... and some time for beer Cheers, RickO

cladking

It was around Thanksgiving of 1965 that I got my first clad quarter. It was very well
struck from very good dies and I thought this was going to be the norm. It was Feb-
ruary before the coins started getting fairly common and by summer almost all the new
clads looked like junk. I didn't care about clads in those days anyway except that I
hated them amnd they were replacing good silver with base metal but it was astonishing
how fast the clads were getting made and how awful they were.

A lot of the '66 clad quarters aren't nearly so worn as they appear; they were made
without much detail.

silverpop

born in 1975 so clad was all I ever saw

DennisH

Yes I do. 5th grade.

TwoSides2aCoin

The father of a golden gloves boxer who dated my sister once challenged me to do 25 push ups. When I did, he gave me a quarter. I remember it like it was yesterday. I don't remember any other quarter, quite like that one. I was about 12, perhaps. I don't recall the exact age. But I do remember his next challenge. "Now you do a hundred for me and I will give you a dollar".

So , I went home and every night for the whole summer I would do push ups before bed and before breakfast. At the end of summer, I finally got up to 100 in a row. I told my sister, "I'm ready to go back and prove to Chuck's dad that I made it. She said, "Mr Larson died last night".

I kept up with the push ups until about 10 or 15 years ago. Never did get a dollar for doing a hundred, but I passed the military physical test years later, with ease…. and that first quarter ?
Long gone.