1964 dollar

E wondered:

anyone know anything beside rumor?
i worked with a guy who said he saw one at a coin show in ma. said it
was a very weak strike.
he wasn't the most reliable person.
any truth out there? anyone really know? i've heard there are anywhere
from 5-50 and they were replaced in a bag so the bag would weigh
correctly by a mint employee. and they were all d mint.

It is possible that Lyndon did see to it that a few went into the hands
of a few of his close "Fellow Americans" in Texas. And @#$%^&*() him
for having the rest melted!

LBJ was the one who had the coins struck in the first place. It was the
Treasury that pressured him into abandoning the project.
TD

There is a gent named Mike Lantz (think I have that right) who was a
Denver mint employee at the time, he sometimes can be found at
Numismatic events. He claims to have worked on this project (or at
least as a pressman) in the Denver Mint in the early 1960s, he was
probably in his twenties at that time. I have specifically asked him
if the 1964 coins were weak strikes and he emphatically stated "No,
they were O.K.".

I especially asked him this because I had heard that two military owned
presses that were previously used to make brass ammo casing were
converted & used and that they were somewhat underpowered. One has to
remember that the Mints were running full time throughout this period
(say 1962 to 1968) to meet circulating coin demand and the withdrawal
of the old 90% silver coins - all the presses were being used and a few
historic presses were even brought back into service from their places
in museums and mint sales areas.

LBJ was trying to steal the idea of maintaining a "Prestige" coin from
General DeGaulle who did the same thing when circulating French coins
lost their remaining silver. I do not believe that the crown sized
90%silver 10 francs coins (minted 1965 to 1973) ever circulated either
- I have read that French old age pensioners were given a 10 franc coin
every month with their pensions. Finally, LBJ had to settle for a 40%
silver half dollar.

oly

On 10 Nov 2005 01:44:02 -0800, "oly" is alleged to
have written:
There is a gent named Mike Lantz (think I have that right) who was a
Denver mint employee at the time, he sometimes can be found at
Numismatic events. He claims to have worked on this project (or at
least as a pressman) in the Denver Mint in the early 1960s, he was
probably in his twenties at that time. I have specifically asked him
if the 1964 coins were weak strikes and he emphatically stated "No,
they were O.K.".


They were high relief, like 1921. They were very well struck. CW did a
semi-speculative front page story on them a few years back.

Bruce


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