Remember Silver Money?

Posted by on April 6th, 2008 at 10:56am

Gduws - general article and link directory using wordpress and phpld wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
You Probably Remember When Most Coins Were Really Silver We are pretty used to thinking of our pocket change as mere tokens, which work in machines to pay tolls or buy a soft drink. However, most of us can probably remember when the change in our pocket was actually made from a precious metal. In fact, silver dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars were 90% silver until 1964. Even from 1965 until 1970, half dollars were still 40% silver. After that, the value of the silver, made it to expens

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