Why so many 1964 Rosie's ?

[Dozer D]

I've been CRH dimes since late 2011 with sincere interest. Not counting my coin collection prior to that, I have hunted & found over 2100 silver Rosie's. As I find them, I fill a med-size Rx bottle of 150-count each. I am now on Rx bottle #15, thus : 14 * 150 = 2100. As I completely filled each bottle over the years, I also compiled a log sheet (showing coin year, mint mark) and the quantity of each. When looking at the vast array of numbers for each yr/mm, there sums up a total of 689 of the 1964 P&D's., or approx 32.8% of the entire total 2100. I find that I can compile a complete collection of 5-sets. It's puzzling to see that such a heavy % is just from year 1964. Granted that the mint production for 64' was very high. Just some interesting stats to throw out at you guys that like numbers. I'll try to take a pic of my log sheet if anyone else is interested. My next step would be to sort all the coins together by year & mm to make up the best-of-the-best for folders, just like I'm doing with the cents for the 12-grandkids. Comments of interest ?

 

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[BobTheDigger]

Probably because they minted about 2.3 billion of them. Most other years they minted between 100 and 200 million. 1963 was around 500 million minted. But its all the same silver - congrats on the collection. That's a nice pile of silver there!

 

[Buchsy]

Bob the Digger is correct - So many '64's were minted in dimes quarters and halves to make up for the shortage that was taking place of the other coins in circulation at the time. The market value of silver was above the face value amount in coins and Gresham's law was in full swing. Silver coins were being hoarded in droves, creating shortages. Enough coins needed to be in circulation for commerce until the Treasury (US Mint) was able to start minting the clad counterparts in quantity. From what I understand about this, '64's were minted through '65 and even in the beginning of '66. However, they all show '64 as the mint year because according to the Coinage Act of 1965, 1964 was the last year of issue for silver. If it were silver, it had to be '64; anything else was the actual year of issue ('65, 66, 67, etc.)

It makes sense that you would have so much in silver dated '64 - but silver is silver. Great hoard!

 

[jcole77]

Oh yes, please show us your log sheet... would love to see it!

There were approximately 6,595,616,000 silver dimes minted with the dates from 1946-1964. 34.67% of that mintage was dated 1964.

 

[ArkieBassMan]

To add to what the others have correctly stated, they were still minting 1964 dated silver coins until mid 1966 or '67. That's another part of the reason the total ended up reaching nearly 2.3 billion.

 

[Dozer D]

Thanks for the background info on the over-minting of the '64's. Didn't know about that, which would give reason for the huge surplus numbers. Thanks for answering my question. DozerD

 

[Dozer D]

Oh yes, please show us your log sheet... would love to see it!

There were approximately 6,595,616,000 silver dimes minted with the dates from 1946-1964. 34.67% of that mintage was dated 1964.

jcole77 - attached pic of my log sheet of the 2100 Rosie's found CRH since late 2011. My thinking was wrong, I DON'T have enough to make the 5-SETS for my grown up kids, missing just a very few dates of 5 each. But the possibility is still there. Hope you find it interesting, if at all readable (pic taken on an I-Pod).

 

[jcole77]

jcole77 - attached pic of my log sheet of the 2100 Rosie's found CRH since late 2011. My thinking was wrong, I DON'T have enough to make the 5-SETS for my grown up kids, missing just a very few dates of 5 each. But the possibility is still there. Hope you find it interesting, if at all readable (pic taken on an I-Pod).

Very cool! I can read it just fine! Thanks!

Looks like the 47-S, 49 Philly, 49-S, 50-S, all three '55 coins, and the 58 Philly have been your toughest pulls.

 

[Dozer D]

Jcole77: my next step I guess will be to get small coin envelopes (able to hold about 50 coins each), and to sort all these Rosie's by year, thereby able to pick out the "Best-of-the-Best" coins for those five folders.

 

[kcm]

Buchsy and ArkieBassMan - Man, ya'll just blew my mind!! I never would have dreamed that the gov't would have done that - minting 1964 coins into 1965, '66, and even '67. Just boggles my mind!!

 

[GlenDronach]

They're still printing 2009 series $100 bills last time I checked as well. It's weird but not that rare.

 

[jcole77]

They're still printing 2009 series $100 bills last time I checked as well. It's weird but not that rare.

Yes, but they only change the year on the paper money every once in a while... with coins it's supposed to be with the start of every year. But as we know with such coins as the 1804 Dollar and the 1964 silver coins, this hasn't always been the case. I'm sure it will happen again someday.

 

[jcole77]

Jcole77: my next step I guess will be to get small coin envelopes (able to hold about 50 coins each), and to sort all these Rosie's by year, thereby able to pick out the "Best-of-the-Best" coins for those five folders.

That's a good idea... I do the same with my nickels from time to time. Lately, it seems like all of the time I don't spend searching has been spent organizing....