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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3272441, member: 66&quot;]They weren&#039;t trying to use up the reserves, there was a major coin shortage going one and they were trying to get ahead of it.&nbsp; (of course one of the reasons for the shortage was that people were pulling the silver coins out of circulation because they were right on the edge of being worth more as&nbsp; metal than as money had silver was showing no signs ending its price rise.)&nbsp; Then they had to continue the silver coins while they were striking the clads because if they hadn&#039;t coinage for commerce would have disappeared practically overnight.&nbsp; So they had to continue the silver coinage until there was enough clad in circulation to take over the load.</p><p><br /></p><p>They didn&#039;t try to dispose of the silver stockpile until years later.&nbsp; In fact one of the major worries in the early sixties was that the production of coins was going to wipe out the strategic stockpile and they were trying to prevent that from happening.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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