A 1964 Special Mint Set half dollar is a. With the rise in silver prices, the Mint stopped producing 90 half dollar coins by 1965, changing the alloy to 40 silver and later to 75 copper and 25 Nickel. Includes 2 Silver Franklin Half Dollar, 2 Silver Washington Quarters, and 2 Silver Roosevelt Dime Set includes a complete set of all 1964 coins issued from the Philadelphia Mint ('P' mint mark) and Denver Mint ('D' mint mark). The Bay Ridge Coin Show, noon to 9 P.M., in the Sons of Norway Center, 60th Street and Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn. The Mint produced 273,304,004 coins dated 1964 and 156,205,446 dated 1964-D from the Denver mint. Mint Set Single envelope set containing 10 uncirculated coins packaged by the U.S. Officials evidently assumed that collectors who missed out on the proof sets would decide to settle for second best, and that dealers and speculators would also see the greater profit potential in this year's mint sets and would therefore rush in with as many multiple‐orders as possible (submitted through employes, relatives and friends).Īs things turned out, the five‐set limitation was no match for the coin boom. 1965 Washington US Quarters All Auction Buy It Now 4,189 Results Year: 1964 Year Certification Mint Location Grade Circulated/Uncirculated Condition Price. The coins include: the penny, nickel, silver dime, silver quarter, and silver half dollar. In deciding, in advance, to impose a five‐set limit, mint officials obviously were determined to prevent another maelstrom of the kind that engulfed the proof‐set situation earlier this year. The 1964 proof set contains five different coins, and three of them are 90 silver. The presence this year of two Kennedy half‐dollars (from Philadelphia and Denver) in each mint set greatly enhances the normal premium value. It is quite possible that another million orders have poured in since the May 7 deadline, and a mountain of paper work will be involved in returning these late orders.Įven though the 10 uncirculated, regular production coins in a mint set do not approach the quality (or numismatic value) of proof coins, the mint sets have always had some premium as collector's items. New Listing 1964 United States Special Mint Set. In less than a week from the May 1 opening day, orders for more than a million 1964 sets were received at the Philadelphia mint. Get the best deals on Uncirculated 1964 US Coin Mint Sets when you shop the largest. ALTHOUGH the booming interest in coins has been a prime topic in the nation for some time, the full power of it in forcing the United States Mint to cut off mint‐set orders as of May 7 was a shock even to the experts.
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