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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GobrechtReich85, post: 1692457, member: 17921&quot;]Actually, as it turns out, we&#039;re both wrong. The Trade dollars&#039; legal tender status was restored by the Coinage Act of 1965. </p><p>&nbsp;From Coinworld.com: &quot;<span style="color: #292929"><font face="Arial">Congress revoked the legal tender status of the Trade dollar in 1876, but the coins were struck officially for two more years.&quot; </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929"><font face="Arial">&nbsp;And from pcgs.com: (Taken from &quot;Silver Dollars &amp; Trade Dollars of the United States:A Complete Encyclopedia volume 1 by Q. David Bowers) </font></span><b>The Trade Dollar Remonetized (1965)</b><span style="color: #505151"><font face="Helvetica">&quot;A little known fact is that the Coinage Act of July 23, 1965, which provided for the production of clad coins, contained this wording (Section 102; italics ours): <i>&quot;All coins </i>and currencies <i>of the United States </i>(including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations),<i>regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal tender </i>for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues.&quot;</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #505151"><font face="Helvetica">Under this act, it seems that trade dollars were given the legal tender status that had been taken away in 1876, although probably no one in Congress was aware of the implication! Similarly, the 1884 and 1885 trade dollars are now legal tender as are, it would seem, all pattern coins.&quot;</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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