Talk:Coinage Act of 1965

Today's Featured Article?

@Wehwalt: As the significant contributor to this article, would you be OK if I nominated this article for Today's Featured Article on July 23, 2020, as it will be it's 55th anniversary? --MrClog (talk) 21:56, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

I think the plan is to run it on that date this year.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:47, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Wehwalt, in that case, you could nominate it right now via WP:TFA/R, as they are currently accepting July 15-August 14 requests. --MrClog (talk) 08:32, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

It isn't necessary. I've bene informed by one of my fellow TFA coordinators that this article will be picked for July 23.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:08, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Coin shortage ?

I just looked through official mintage numbers for cents through half dollars for the years mentioned in the "Coin shortage" section.

There were low numbers of all coins (except the cent) produced during the middle to late 1950s by both mints. (There were over a billion cents made for nearly each year in question --- I don't see that as a "shortage." Plus, there were the coins from the previous years' mintages.)

But by 1959, the numbers were pretty much back up to nearly previous levels, but the Philadelphia mint was lagging behind the Denver mint in quantity.

Since the numbers were there, I think that any so-called "coin shortage" was due to a combination of the mismanagement of moving the coins to-and-from where they were to where they needed to be and the people who needed the coins misforecasting (on the low side) the quantities they actually needed.

Maybe my family lived in "the right place" at the time, but I do not ever recall hearing my parents nor grandparents talk about, or even mention, a "coin shortage."

Just saying. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 15:18, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

All I can do is go by the sources. I am not old enough to remember, myself. I remember a cent shortage in 1974, when I was a child, but not the ones in the 1960s.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:58, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

What "treating" stand for?

Hi User:Wehwalt, a little one, "Section 105 authorized the secretary to prohibit the melting, export, or treating of any coin", what this "treating of any coin" exactly stand for?--Jarodalien (talk) 12:51, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

It seems to mean damaging them, making them unfit for circulation without actually melting them. "Defacing" might be a good synonym.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:32, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Ok that make sense, translation done. BTW, I think this is another article you could be proud of.--Jarodalien (talk) 16:30, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, I'm sure it is. I admire you for taking on this responsibility.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:59, 19 April 2020 (UTC)