1965 TEN CENTS

Circulation strikes: 1,652,140,570
Special Mint Sets: 2,360,000
Designer: John R. Sinnock
Diameter: ±17.9 millimeters
Thickness: ±1.35 millimeters
Metal content: Outer layers: 75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Center: 100% Copper
Weight: ±2.27 grams Edge:
Reeded Mintmark: None
Value: $1.50 (MS-65)

Posting a dimenking about quarters...

I have two piggy banks at home, one for each of my sons (Okay, they aren’t actually ‘piggy’ banks I just don’t know what else to call them) Each day since my sons were born (Nov 1st 2008) I’ve put a quarter into each bank, always a ‘State Quarter’. This isn’t an ‘allowance’ thing it’s just me planning ahead to share my love of coins with my kids. Allowance, when the boys are old enough for it, will be separate and in addition to the quarter collection. Just the other day I realized that there are already a lot of quarters in those banks. 150 in each. I briefly considered going through all my state quarters (I have every single one that has ever found it’s way into my change) and ensuring that each bank has a full set. And then I though ‘well that’s no fun’ better to let the coins collect however they will. Someday the boys can sort through them all and see if they have a complete set. Odds are they will at least be very close, they can trade with each other as needed or ask to search through my box-o-quarters if they are missing anything. Of course there are still the DC/Territories. I’ll probably treat those the same as I do the State quarters. Once I have my obligatory sample of a given coin duplicates will go into the quarter box and some of those will find there way into the boys’ banks.
Regardless, by the time my boys are old enough to care they should each have a complete, or nearly complete, set of State/Territorial quarters, and at a quarter a day ($91 per year) even if they keep a complete set they’ll have a lot left over.