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1965 quarter value: 25 cents worn, $8 to $20 in MS-63 to MS-65, $11,400 for the MS68 record and $16,800 for a silver-planchet error. Grades, SMS, errors, tips.
Condition drives the price — full breakdown below.
1,819,717,540 struck — against the other key dates in the Washington Quarter series.
Bars are scaled to keep the smallest mintages visible; the exact figure is printed on every row. Mintage is coins struck, not coins surviving — melting and circulation wear thin those numbers further.
The U.S. Mint struck 1,819,717,540 quarters dated 1965, the figure carried by both PCGS CoinFacts and NGC. PCGS estimates 454,929,385 still survive in all grades, yet NGC has certified only 1,422 examples in total, with just 20 at MS68.
No 1965 quarter carries a mint mark. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Coinage Act of 1965 on July 23, 1965, and the Mint suspended mint marks from 1965 through 1967 to discourage hoarding. Philadelphia and Denver struck the business strikes while San Francisco struck 2,360,000 unmarked coins for Special Mint Sets, and 1965-dated quarters were produced from August 23, 1965 until the end of July 1966.
A clad 1965 quarter weighs 5.67 grams and measures 24.3 mm, against 6.25 grams for a 90% silver quarter. To check for the silver-planchet transitional error, weigh the coin on a 0.01 g scale and look at the edge: a clad coin shows a copper stripe, a silver coin has a uniform silver edge.
Genuine 1965 quarters struck on leftover 90% silver planchets are the top prize. A PCGS MS62 example brought $16,800 at Heritage Auctions on December 15, 2020 (lot 92181), and a PCGS XF45 piece (PCGS cert 21271897) that realized $5,750 at the January 2004 FUN sale resold at Heritage on July 5, 2022, where its owner now asks $13,950 or more. Bullion Exchanges also cites a PCGS MS62 at $9,600 (Heritage, January 2023) and a PCGS MS63 at $7,200 (Stack's Bowers, 2021).
1965 Special Mint Set (SMS) quarters were struck from sandblasted dies for the 2,300,000 five-coin sets the Mint sold at $4.00 each. PCGS prices an SMS quarter at $16 in SP65, $20 in SP66, $30 in SP67, $100 in SP68 and $1,250 in SP68+; about 60 have graded MS68 with none finer, an SP68 sold for $360 at Heritage in December 2022, and the SMS auction record is $5,175 for an MS63 at Heritage on January 4, 2006.
Condition drives the business-strike premium. PCGS lists MS66 at $40, MS67 at $425, MS67+ at $850 and MS68 at $15,500; the finest of only two PCGS MS68 coins, from the Brodie Collection, sold for $11,400 at Heritage on July 20, 2023 (lot 3054), and a toned PCGS MS67+ realized $1,581.24 at GreatCollections on July 6, 2025. The all-time auction record is $12,650 for a "GEM BU" coin at Stack's on January 19, 2005.
The 1965 Doubled Die Obverse FS-101 shows clear doubling on IN GOD WE TRUST, LIBERTY, the date and the left side of Washington's profile; the lesser FS-102 doubles LIBERTY only, and a Doubled Die Reverse FS-801 also exists. PCGS prices FS-101 at $40 in F-12, $85 in VF-20, $325 in EF-40, $525 in AU-50, $850 in MS-63 and $1,400 in MS-64, with the finest known at MS64; its auction record is $489 for an AU58 at Heritage on February 1, 2007, and another AU58 brought $360 in March 2018.
Other mint errors carry smaller but real premiums. BOLD Precious Metals puts an off-center 1965 quarter at $50 to $300 depending on how far off the strike sits, a 10% off-center ANACS MS-60 Details example drew 17 bids at GreatCollections on August 30, 2026, and Gainesville Coins reports a 1965 quarter struck on a silver dime planchet selling for more than $7,000 in Mint State.
Dealers pay face value for a worn clad 1965 quarter, and Bullion Exchanges states plainly that a standard example is worth 25 cents; PCGS notes circulated coins trade for about $2 on eBay, gems around $30 and MS67 and higher $350 or more. The copper-nickel metal is essentially worthless: USA Coin Book's live melt value on September 3, 2026 was $0.0835, about one third of face.
Other dates and varieties in this series
What to check before you pay, specific to this date and its 1,819,717,540-coin mintage.
The same date runs from about $0.25 worn to $20 at the top of the scale — a 80× spread. Nearly all of that gap is condition, not the date on the coin, so work out where an example sits on the table above before deciding whether its asking price is fair.
Grading fees would eat much of what this coin is worth, so raw examples are normal here and nothing to be wary of. Judge it on clear photos of both sides and the seller's track record instead.
Every Washington Quarter listed here is priced by an individual seller, so the same coin in the same grade can differ by a wide margin on any given day. Sort by price, check Metal Points and order history for a sense of the seller's record, and message them if the photos don't show enough to grade confidently.
About the 1965 Clad Washington Quarter
Value depends heavily on condition. A well-worn example brings closer to $0.25, while an uncirculated one can reach $20 or more.
The U.S. Mint struck 1,819,717,540 quarters dated 1965, the figure carried by both PCGS CoinFacts and NGC. PCGS estimates 454,929,385 still survive in all grades, yet NGC has certified only 1,422 examples in total, with just 20 at MS68.
For anything you believe is a key date or an error, professional grading protects both buyer and seller by settling condition and authenticity before money changes hands.
The rest of the series, with what each is worth at the top of the grade scale.
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