I have a bag (or large bottle) of the special Bicentennial coins we used back in 1976; what are they worth?
They are worth their face value with a very few exceptions I will mention toward the end of this note. Those coins replaced our regular coins during the Bicentennial and were actually made for two years, which is why you never see quarters dated 1975 or 1976. We just made the “1776-1976” ones for those two years. In quarters, we made more than 1,600,000,000 coins. In the half dollar, more than 500,000,000 coins. Of the dollar, more than 220,000,000 coins Sometimes it seems as if every living person in the world has saved a bag of these coins just waiting for them to be worth big bucks. We have had people bring in Polar Water bottles of the darn things. They aren t worth more than the face value; we use them for change. Go ahead and spend them. Unless…. Like any rule, there are a few exceptions. We did make a lower number of these coins from silver (look at the edge – if any copper shows it is a plain old clad) to appeal to collectors and investors. Those do have silver value. We made
