Is there a 1965 Australian coin?

Answer 1

Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco.

In 1965 the government ordered the Mint to strike coins without mint marks regardless of where they were produced. The previous year had seen a major coin shortage due to a run-up in the price of silver that made it worthwhile for people to take coins out of circulation and melt them. In its infinite wisdom Congress chose to place the blame on coin collectors instead of on speculators in the precious-metals market, so to reduce the collectibility of circulation coins they ordered the removal of mint marks along with a change in metal from 90% silver to the current copper-nickel clad "sandwich" composition. In addition, coinage of proof sets was suspended to allow all facilities to be used to strike coins for circulation.

Circulation coins were struck at both Philadelphia and Denver, while collectors were thrown a bone by issuing so-called Special Mint Sets. These were struck at San Francisco but do not carry a mint mark.

By the end of 1967 a sufficient stock of clad coins had entered circulation and the shortage was effectively over, so the government allowed mint marks to be re-introduced starting in 1968. One major difference was that prior to 1965, all denominations except the cent had mint marks on the reverse side. Starting in 1968, mint marks were moved to the obverse of all denominations where they remain today.

One further note - prior to 1980, Philadelphia coins did not carry a mint mark. Starting with the 1979 SBA dollar and extending to all other denominations except the cent in 1980, Philadelphia began using a "P" mint mark. So, any pre-1980 coins you find without a mint mark are not errors, they're just from Philadelphia.

Answer 2

Easy Answer = all US Quarters bearing the date 1965 have no silver content. They're made of copper-nickel so they're only worth 25¢. Complicated Answer = To disburse the overflow of stored bullion silver, the US Treasury, specifically the US Mint, struck a number of silver coins - including quarters - diring 1965 & 1966 and disbursed them to banks - BUT these coins all were dated 1964.

Answer 3

No.

The last of the Australian predecimal coins were minted in 1964.

The initial Australian decimal coins were minted in 1966.