1967 quarter no mint mark: what it's worth, and the glassy one from a set

A 1967 quarter carries no mint mark because a 1965 law forbade the letters on every US coin, not because yours came out different, and a worn one is worth 25 cents. Three mints struck them and none of them signed the work: Philadelphia 873,524,000, Denver 632,767,848 and San Francisco 17,740,000, all blank. CoinWeek's guide to the date says that by the 1980s the typical survivor had worn down to VF or XF, the grades for a coin that spent years in circulation, and that "coins in this condition generally have no numismatic value".

Three things lift a 1967 quarter above face value, and the first is the one people most often have without knowing: a coin out of a set the Mint sold to collectors. The other two are a genuine error with a single documented sale behind it, and a grade that almost nothing out of circulation reaches.

Is yours the glassy one from a Special Mint Set?

There were no proof sets and no ordinary uncirculated sets in 1967. The Mint sold Special Mint Sets: five coins, cent through half dollar, made at the San Francisco Assay Office and, like everything else that year, unmarked. The Mint's own description from January 1968 is careful about what they were. "Although these sets are better in quality than any of the regular uncirculated coin sets previously packaged by the Mint, they are not of proof quality." A proof is a coin struck with extra care on polished dies for collectors, and these were not that.

1,863,344 sets were made for 1967, so there are that many more unmarked 1967 quarters in existence, sitting outside the three mintage figures at the top of this page.

Telling one apart is a surface question. CoinWeek: "What differentiates the two is the glassy quality of the surfaces of the Special Mint Set coin. By contrast, the business strike 1967 Washington Quarter will exhibit frosty or satiny surfaces." A business strike is just a coin made for spending. PCGS admits the line can be fine, noting that "to the untrained eye, SMS coins can be mistaken for business strikes", and the grading services separate them on the label: PCGS calls them Specimens, SP with "SMS" on the holder, and NGC writes "1967 SMS".

PCGS price guide, read on 21 September 2026. Cameo means the raised design came out frosted against a mirror-like field, and Deep Cameo means a lot of it. NGC's guide for the same coin, last updated 29 May 2020, runs lower and shorter: $10 at MS65, $20 at MS67, $40 at MS68, $150 at MS69, and $3,400 for an MS68 Ultra Cameo priced on 2 October 2019.

What that table is really saying is that an ordinary set quarter is a $10 to $40 coin, and the four-figure rows need a grade almost nobody's coin has. PCGS's own published auction record for the plain SP designation is $610, for an SP69 sold on eBay on 6 February 2019. Two Cameo examples did sell at Heritage, an SP69 Cameo on 10 August 2016 and an SP68 Deep Cameo on 5 January 2017, and Heritage hides prices realized from anyone not signed in, so we cannot tell you what either brought.

Why 1967 is blank, and 1968 is not

The Coinage Act of 1965 banned the letters on every US coin for five years, with one exception that let Denver keep its D on the 1964-dated coins it was already authorized to strike. Congress repealed it early. The Mint's press release of 4 January 1968 records the repeal in 1967 and says the 1968 coins "carry mint marks for the first time since the 1964 dated coins", with the letter now on the front, "to the right of the portraits". So 1967 is the third and last blank year, and a 1967 quarter is unmarked whether Philadelphia, Denver or San Francisco made it. CoinWeek: "to date, none of the grading services have certified examples where the quarter's mint source is identifiable."

The 1965 quarter has the statute's wording and the transitional silver error that made that year interesting. The quarter mint mark hub covers the other years, including the ones where a blank simply means Philadelphia.

The shortage the ban was fighting was over by then. The Mint Director said in that same January 1968 release that over seven billion coins were produced in 1967 and more than nine billion in 1966, "completely eliminating the coin shortage except for the half dollar". CoinWeek counts 7,219,079,046 coins across the five denominations for 1967, and notes that the quarter's 1.52 billion alone was more than twice the highest mintage any 90% silver quarter ever had.

If you find two different mintages for 1967

You will. The specification box at the top of CoinWeek's own 1967 guide gives 1,819,717,540, which is the 1965 figure carried over by mistake; the article's text and table, and PCGS, give 1,524,031,848. The three per-mint numbers at the top of this page sum exactly to that. They come from PCGS CoinFacts and CoinWeek, which share an author, so it is one count published twice and we did not check it against a Mint annual report.

The one 1967 error with a sale behind it

One 1967 quarter was struck on a 90% silver blank, two years after silver quarters ended. CoinWeek documents a single example: ANACS AU58 Details (Cleaned), sold for $5,750 at Stack's, in The Eldorado Sale, on 14 May 2009, lot 391. The "Cleaned" on that label is not decoration. Cleaning a coin removes value and the note stays with it.

The two checks are the same as the 1965 ones, and the 1965 page has them in full: a weight near 6.25 grams where an ordinary one reads 5.67, and an edge with no copper stripe showing between the grey layers. A coin that passes both goes to PCGS or NGC, or to a dealer holding it, before anyone talks about money.

What CoinWeek says about the listings promising thousands

CoinWeek's warning is worth quoting at length, because it is why most people reach this page. "We have observed a recent rash of high-dollar transactions on eBay of run-of-the-mill worn 1967 Washington Quarters, where the seller claims the coins are rare or contain multiple errors... nothing in the listings or the available literature on the series substantiates these claims." Its advice is to check any claimed error against the CONECA Master List, the reference collectors use for die varieties.

The highest price PCGS records for an ordinary 1967 quarter is $8,812.50, and that coin is an MS68 sealed in a grading service's holder, not one of the worn coins in those listings. How to tell an error from damage covers what the marks on a circulated coin usually are.

The top grades, and how far they have fallen

The date's record is that $8,812.50 for a PCGS MS68 at Heritage's FUN auction on 5 January 2017. PCGS's condition census, its list of the best known examples of a date, then follows the same grade down: $5,040 on 6 June 2019, $4,800 on 9 January 2020, $3,960 on 12 August 2024. One MS67+ (PCGS certificate 81480824) brought $5,170 on 11 September 2016 and $493.50 on 30 April 2017, the following spring. CoinWeek adds the pattern a step lower: "In 2007-2008, PCGS MS67 examples routinely sold at auction for $275-$350. In 2023, Stack's Bowers sold two examples for $80 each."

The PCGS guide on 21 September 2026 asks $16 at MS65, $20 at MS66, $100 at MS67, $850 at MS67+ and $5,250 at MS68. NGC's, from 24 March 2022, says $10 at MS65, $150 at MS67 and $6,250 at MS68. The one coin that sits outside all of it is an NGC MS69, the only one NGC had graded when CoinWeek counted in May 2025, which sold at GreatCollections on 11 August 2024 for $8,156.25.

A certified top-grade coin is a market position and markets move, so a price from 2017 is not a valuation today. The supply at that end is tiny: PCGS's census listed five MS68 coins tied at the top on 21 September 2026 with none finer, against PCGS's own estimate of about 381 million 1967 quarters surviving in all grades, roughly 22.9 million of them at MS65 or better. Coin grading in plain terms explains the scale.

For an unworn 1967 quarter that nobody has certified, CoinWeek's figure is the honest one: "a reasonable price to pay for an example is about $5, unless the coin has been certified." Below that the ladder is barely a ladder. NGC's guide, last updated 24 March 2022, prints 30 cents at the circulated grades up to XF45 and 75 cents at AU58, the grade just short of unworn.

Working out which one you have

Look at the surface first, in decent light. Frosty or satiny, with wear on the high points, means a spent coin worth 25 cents. Glassy and sharp, with no scuffs from handling, means it may have come out of a Special Mint Set, which is a $10 to $40 coin at the grades most of them actually reach. Then weigh it on a scale that shows two decimal places: a clad quarter is 5.67 grams and a silver one left the press at 6.25, so a reading well clear of 5.67 and up near 6.25 is worth carrying to a grading service or a dealer in person, left exactly as it is. Cleaning it first removes value. How to sell a coin covers where that goes next.

Buck is ours, for the record: photograph both sides on an iPhone or an Android phone and it names the type, which here is "Washington quarter" and nothing narrower, because its index is keyed to the type and carries no figure for a single date. It settles neither of the two questions this page turns on, since a photo cannot judge a grade and no camera weighs anything, so the light and the scale stay your job; what it costs is on its own page.

Most of this page rests on CoinWeek's guide to the 1967 quarter: the surface test, the eBay warning, the circulated grades, the 2007 to 2023 price comparison, the silver-planchet sale and the $8,156.25 GreatCollections result. PCGS supplies the per-mint figures, the condition census sales, the survival estimates and the SMS auction record, and its specimen and mint state price guides were read on 21 September 2026. The United States Mint's press release of 4 January 1968 carries the repeal and the Special Mint Set wording, the Coinage Act of 1965 is in the Statutes at Large, and NGC Coin Explorer has the specifications, the set mintage and the circulated prices.