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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2477144, member: 26302&quot;]Arrow andnrays and arrows all have same silver content. Non-arrows 1853 and previous issues had more silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a function of the CA gold rush. So much gold made silver relatively more expensive, and our silver coins overvalued. The arrows issue later denoted just the opposite, the Comstock load had made silver cheaper and we added silver to coins in the 1870&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kind of cool actually, having numismatic evidence of these two massive mining finds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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