United States Bicentennial coinage
The United States Bicentennial coinage is a set of circulating commemorative coins, consisting of a quarter, half dollar and dollar struck by the United States Mint in 1975 and 1976. Each coin bears the double date 1776–1976 on the normal obverses for the Washington quarter, Kennedy halfdollar and Eisenhower dollar. No coins dated 1975 of any of the three denominations were minted.
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The United States Bicentennial coinage is a set of circulating commemorative coins, consisting of a quarter, half dollar and dollar struck by the United States Mint in 1975 and 1976. Each coin bears the double date 1776–1976 on the normal obverses for the Washington quarter, Kennedy halfdollar and Eisenhower dollar. No coins dated 1975 of any of the three denominations were minted. All three coins remain common today due to the quantity struck. Circulation pieces were in copper nickel; Congress also mandated 45,000,000 part-silver pieces be struck for collectors. The Mint sold over half of the part- silver coins before melting the remainder after withdrawing them from sale in 1986. The final issue among these commemoratives, half dollars honoring Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver were struck over a number of years, and were discontinued in 1954. In 1966, Congress established the American Revolutionary Bicentenary Commission to plan and coordinate activities connected with the 1976 bicentennial of American Independence. In February 1970, the ARBC established a Coins and Medals Advisory Committee. The committee’s initial report, in July 1970, called for the production of a commemorative half dollar for the Bicentennials. In December 1970, the committee called for special designs for all denominations of US coinage for theBicentennial. In 1971, members of Congress introduced bills to authorize coins to honor the U.S. BicentENNials, which would occur in 1976.
In 1972, the Mint, through its director, Mary Brooks, initially opposed such proposals, but later supported them, and Congress passed legislation requiring the temporary redesign of the reverse of the quarter,Half dollar anddollar. In 1973, the Treasury announced its support for coin legislation for design changes to the reverses of the circulating circulating dollars and half dollars, and sent it to Congress three days later. In 1974, Congress passed a bill requiring a limited redesign in the bill, but opposing a more extensive coin redesign. In 1975, Congress introduced a bill calling for a USD 25 gold piece. In 1978, Congress approved a bill that would have allowed the Mint to strike coins at the West Point Bullion Depository, where older coinage presses were available to install older coins. In 1979, Congress voted to allow the mint to strike at least two popular denominations to be changed to at least 667 pure or less to avoid hoarding. As a result of this legislation, the coin denominations were changed to be at least 2.67 pure. In 1982, Congress also passed a law that allowed the Coin Depository to change the coin to be.67 pure, where only two were changed. In 1984, Congress authorized the Coin depository to be able to change at least one popular coin. In 1986, the law was changed again to allow for the CoinDepository to alter the coin at the least popular denominations, and the coin was changed to 1.67.67. In 1988, the Coindepository changed the coin.
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