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What is the most hoarded post 1964 coin intended for circulation??
Is it the 2005 buffalo nickel??
Over a billion were struck but it is rarely seen in circulation..............
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I'd say the 1999 SBA
I'm not sure I've ever seen the 2005 Jefferson nickel with the bison reverse. But I don't look at modern pocket change much.
Lance.
The 2009 Lincolns?
Probably not the correct answer but my grandfather left me about 50 dollars worth of bicentennial quarters he pulled from change.
Id say the 2005 nickel is a good guess.
Hoarded by the general public? Bicentennial quarter by a long shot.
I see other agree too
Bicentennial quarters - I think it continues today ???
Average pocket change finds has to be the bicentennial quarter and half.
I know a number of people that like them (have way to many) for whatever reason, after I repeatedly suggest that they should return them to the wild.
I release 2005 Bisons frequently but they never return home.............
1970-D 50c
Bicentennial quarter. My 86 year old mother has about $550+ face value of them.
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Hoarded by the US Mint? Golden dollar coins?
That's interesting because for years my father kept every single bicentennial quarter he came across. I have no idea what he ever did with these but I suspect he has them squirreled away somewhere in his house.
A billion? I've probably found less than 10 in my life. Maybe these have indeed been hoarded.
Bicentennial quarter.
I will also go with the Bicentennial Quarter.
Although in the last several years AUish specimens have been showing up frequently.
I suspect the hoarder has passed away and the inheritors are returning them to circulation.
I suspect there are people who have saved every one they have come across.
I see the 2005 Bison nickels quite a lot around here.
Post 1970 JFK Half Dollars. I've seen many of them in non collector hoards. People get confused about when the silver disappeared from the 50 cent piece.
There is really nothing worth keeping in this time period. The bicentennial quarter is kept as a novelty for some reason. They are worth a quarter!
I wonder why they have to keep pumping out these coins by the billions EVERY year!! Where do they go? Do we really need them? Does the government pull them out and destroy them like they do paper money! Really why do we need all these coins???
These were never intended for circulation.
The bicentennial quarter is the only one I ever hoarded.
As Bill Jones said, the post-1970 halves were heavily hoarded.
The attractive design may be the reason that the 1976 bicentennial quarter is frequently hoarded. Plus the fact that through 1998, it was the only clad quarter in circulation that had a distinctive reverse.
Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony dollars also belong on any "most hoarded" list. Virtually 100% of them are no longer circulating.
Prior to 1964, I believe the "most hoarded" award goes to that extremely rare type coin, the 1943 steel cent.
I would say the 2009 Lincoln cents if the measurement is sheer volume of coins hoarded.
At our last college plant sale a lady paid her bill with 20 SBAs and a $2 bill. There was no place to enter either on our burser form, so I had to drive over to my bank to them swap for paper dollars. We would have kept the SBAs, but the department soda machine won't accept them.
Bicentennial quarter.
Thinking about it more and if I could change my choice I would say the 1965-1969 40% Kennedy halves. Very difficult to find any of these anymore in the $500 half dollar boxes. In addition to those hoarded, hundreds of millions have likely hit the melting pot.
Jeff
Ike dollars?
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I think you might change your mind if you found a 1976-D DDO Die 1.
I completely forgot about varieties. Not really thinking about them and hoarding together. There are 2 Roosie varieties that have eluded me so far.
64 Kennedy halves
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I don't think 64 is post 64??
'65-'82 95% copper penny.
But the 1970-D was a mint set only issue, or am I missing something? The original post asks for hoarded coins that were intended for circulation.
40 percent silver Half dollars. That'd be my guess.
I'll shed a little light on the reason your seeing more AU recently
Truth be told, some large lots in the thousands are being sold from delinquent safety deposit boxes.
I turn them back into the wild.
What I don't get is why someone will pay $15 per roll for $10 in Bicentennial quarters on ebay.
Kind of sad that in 50+ years there is so little of numismatic value in circulation to hoard.
Contrast that with the prior 50 years 1914-1964...............
The answer is the .gov is pumping out more unsecured money and the average joe doesn't notice.
Just think about how much is collected and or in circulation.
ONE million+ a year in $2.5 gold pieces since 1800
ONE million+ a year in $5 gold pieces since 1800
ONE million+ a year in $10 gold pieces since 1800
ONE million+ a year in $20 gold pieces since 1800
Again every year after that till ??
Now think about the silver coinage,then the clad coins.
sure some get lost or destroyed, but whats the figure for the total amount of coinage that has been minted???
No, you were and are correct.
Going a little less specific than an actual date, I would list these 4 in order of my guestimated percent circulating of those minted.
Eisenhower Dollars (.01%)
Kennedy Half Dollars (.1%)
SB Anthony Dollars (2%)
Sacagawea Dollars (4%)
My percentages are pure guesses, I know there are some pockets where the small dollar are more widely used, driven by factors such as mass transit systems/tolls which accept them.
I have put thousands of SBAs into circulation, but suspect they don't continue to circulate.
None of my business, but if you feel like sharing what those two are I will keep my eyes open.
You never know what one might come across.
I tend to agree with the bi-centennial quarter being most hoarded.... I do see them occasionally in change, but by no means are they common. Of course Ike dollars are never seen in change (at least not by me), however, they were not minted in the quantities of the quarter and never really did much circulation. Cheers, RickO
The 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial cents. Hoarding by the boxfull on those.
Agreed.
The 1965 - 1970 Kennedy half dollars are 40% silver.
Of the approximately 850 million produced, I'd guess most of the surviving coins are hoarded... er, let's just say they're in the hands of "collectors".
And FWIW, I believe they're the last U.S. circulation coins that contain any silver.
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Buffalo Nickels....
A lot of them were melted during the two big spikes in silver.
I have a mint bag each of the D and P of the 2005 buffalos. I was looking for the speared buffalo version which was very popular back then. Not sure how they are doing today.
Also, I never see the 2009 Lincolns anymore in change today.
Box of 20
My son did a statistics project in high school, and got $2000 in halves from the credit union, and sorted them all. He then graphed the number he found compared to the mintage for each year, compared to the total mintage, ie. if the total mintage from 1964 to 2011 (when he did this) was 400,000,000, and a particular year mint mark was 16,000,000, then that year was 4% of the total mintage. Out of the 4000 coins he looked at, if 40 were the same year mint mark, then it represented 1% of the sample, but it should have been 4%.
He did the math for all Kennedys, and then without the 1964 - 1970's. IIRC, there were less than 10 coins that were "removed" 1 Franklin, 1 Walker, 2 1964's and the rest 1965 - 1969's, and were replaced with a commensurate number of halves from the teller's drawer.
I cannot find the actual results, but I do remember the Bicentennial coins were OVER Represented in the sample by about 2.5x , and the coins minted after about 2000 basically did not exist.
He was heavier on the "d" mint, but we are in Dallas, so that was noted as a geographic distribution issue.
Except for the silver ones, it would have been expected to have a higher representation of the newer coins, since the older ones would have had losses due to damage, or just plain being lost. That was not the case in his single point analysis.
Someone might try the same, for example, for other moderns, and see, say by getting a sample size in the thousands, how the mintage versus circulating percentage align.
i see them sky rocketing in price ( not )
I can count on one hand how many of the 2009 Lincolns I have seen in circulation, I think the vast majority of those are still hidden away in boxes.
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My bank saves "funny money" for me, and today the head teller had $50 in halves that somebody had deposited in two $25 rolls made out of plain paper and tape. Another teller had a single Bicentennial half.
Bought em hoping for silver, but no dice. Just for the heck of it, here is a breakdown by date. Not bothering to break down by mint.
1971 18
1972 12
1973 3
1974 9
1976 9 (including singleton)
1977 1
1980 3
1981 1
1983 4
1985 1
1986 1
1989 3
1990 1
1991 1
1992 2
1993 1
1994 5
1995 3
1996 6
1997 1
1998 3
1999 6
2000 5
2001 1
Conditions range from dreadful (lot of slot machine coins from the 1990's before the casinos switched over to credit slip payouts) to a Gem BU 1990-D. Go figure.
TD