Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Were there any quarters produced in 1975?
Matt:
My son is four. He loves to earn quarters. While sorting through his cache of coins, I was trying to put together a sentimental set of one quarter from each year since my birth year, 1959. I found it quite easy going through my spare change, a couple of hundred quarters, to put together most years. But since that time I have rifled through another 500+ quarters and I have yet to find anything predating 1965 and none from 1975. The pre-1965 might make sense, but why none from 1975? Should I keep looking or were no quarters even produced in 1975 and why?
-- Curt Lutz, UCSD
Quarter-wise, 1975 is the year that never was. In '75 and '76, the mints in Denver and Philly whomped out 1.6 billion two-bit coins, but they were all dated 1976 -- the Bicentennial year, you see. The feds wanted to make sure they had plenty of the celebratory slugs, so they got a year's head start, skipping straight from 1974 to 1976. Undoubtedly some of your '76 quarters were minted in '75, but there's no way of knowing which ones. As for the pre-'65 coins, they're solid silver. There may be a few left in circulation, but collectors long ago grabbed up the rest. Assuming you don't want to change your birth date to 1965, a coin shop will charge about $6 to fill in the missing dates. So get the four-year-old humpin' on some overtime.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Were there any quarters produced in 1975?
Were there any quarters produced in 1975?
Matt:
My son is four. He loves to earn quarters. While sorting through his cache of coins, I was trying to put together a sentimental set of one quarter from each year since my birth year, 1959. I found it quite easy going through my spare change, a couple of hundred quarters, to put together most years. But since that time I have rifled through another 500+ quarters and I have yet to find anything predating 1965 and none from 1975. The pre-1965 might make sense, but why none from 1975? Should I keep looking or were no quarters even produced in 1975 and why?
-- Curt Lutz, UCSD
Quarter-wise, 1975 is the year that never was. In '75 and '76, the mints in Denver and Philly whomped out 1.6 billion two-bit coins, but they were all dated 1976 -- the Bicentennial year, you see. The feds wanted to make sure they had plenty of the celebratory slugs, so they got a year's head start, skipping straight from 1974 to 1976. Undoubtedly some of your '76 quarters were minted in '75, but there's no way of knowing which ones. As for the pre-'65 coins, they're solid silver. There may be a few left in circulation, but collectors long ago grabbed up the rest. Assuming you don't want to change your birth date to 1965, a coin shop will charge about $6 to fill in the missing dates. So get the four-year-old humpin' on some overtime.
Comments