1967

The 1967 Roosevelt dime represents the third and final year of the no-mintmark clad transition program, with 2,244,007,400 pieces struck across all three mints under the directive that ran from 1965 through 1967. The 2.24-billion figure makes the 1967 the second-highest dime mintage of the transition era, exceeding 1966 and approaching the 1965 peak. The Treasury continued the policy of striking dated coinage at Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco without distinguishing marks, allowing flexible production scheduling and discouraging hoarding by date-and-mint collectors. The 1967 date marked the end of the calendar-year freeze policy and the no-mintmark directive: mintmarks returned to dimes and quarters in 1968, with proof production also resuming at San Francisco with the new "S" mintmark that year. The 1967 thus stands as the closing entry in a three-year structural anomaly in the Roosevelt series.

The 1967 follows the standard clad specifications: 2.268 grams, 17.91 millimeters, outer layers of 75% copper and 25% nickel bonded to a pure copper core, reeded edge, with a coin composition by mass of roughly 91.67% Cu and 8.33% Ni. Sinnock's 1946 design carries over unchanged, with the FDR portrait on the obverse and the torch with olive and oak branches on the reverse. Authentication of a 1967 rests on confirming the clad construction: weight of 2.268 grams versus the silver 2.5 grams, and the visible copper edge stripe between the cupronickel cladding layers. Strike quality by 1967 had improved significantly over the first two years of clad production as press tonnage and die-life calibration matured, and FB (Full Bands) torch detail appears more frequently on saved-roll examples than on 1965 or 1966 equivalents.

Survivor distribution skews toward circulated and low Mint State grades because the coin-shortage hoarding pressure had eased and the public absorbed the clad coinage into normal commerce. MS65 and MS66 examples are common from saved rolls, but MS67 and MS67 FB pieces remain condition rarities because typical bag handling limited the supply of high-grade survivors despite the improved strike quality. The 1967 trades at modest premiums comparable to the 1966 in mid Mint State grades, with sharper step-ups at MS67 FB and above. For broader context, see the Roosevelt Dime series history.