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MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Does anyone know the release date for each of the Bicentennial Coins? Quarter? Half Dollar? Dollar?



Thanks.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Should be in the Coin World Almanac. Let me know if you do not have one and I will look it up.

    TD
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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Tom. I have an old one somewhere and will look for the info I seek there.



    Miker
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,164 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was in the summer. I think toward the end of June, 1975.



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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does July 7, 1975 sound about right? Were all three denominations released on the same date?

    FWIW, July 4, 1975 was on a Friday (banks closed), making July 7th a Monday. Makes sense.
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    sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Decent reading about the bicentennials here.

    Linky



    It says July 7, 1975 for the half.

    The quarter in September, dollar in October.

    No specific date given for those.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1977 Coin World Almanac has July 7, 1975 as the release date for the half and Aug. 18 for the quarter.



    However, for the dollar, the list of release dates on P. 13 has August 13 for the dollar, BUT, the News Happenings (week by week Coin World headlines) on P. 62 has a story in the Oct. 15 issue about the release of the dollar in Atlanta. Then, under the October 29 issue, it has a story about the release of the dollar in Atlanta.



    I suspect that the P. 13 list had it wrong, and that the release date was Oct. 13 rather than Aug. 13.



    TD



    Edited to add: Bowers dollar book Vol. 2 says Oct. 13.
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    MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very helpful info. Thanks to all.



    Mike
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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was just a kid then but remember getting a half dollar in change at the fruit market in the summer of '75 - I remember because of course the coin was dated 1776-1976 and I thought it strange to get a coin dated from the following year.

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