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<p>[QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 3562164, member: 307"]No, there wasn’t.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>Section 101 of The Coinage Act of 1965 authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to issue dimes, quarters, and half dollars of clad composition, with the half dollar to be made of 40 percent silver. So long as there was a shortage of coins, the Mint could strike dimes, quarters, and half dollars from .900 silver, but this authority was to end once the secretary certified there was an adequate supply of the new coins in circulation, and in any event five years after the law was enacted (thus, ending July 23, 1970). During that five-year period, no standard silver dollars could be minted.<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/wmfapp://host/fileProxy/-6505586661424178735-index.html#cite_note-coin-62" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/wmfapp://host/fileProxy/-6505586661424178735-index.html#cite_note-coin-62">[62]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The provision of the law that allowed the continued striking of 90% coins stated that the dates on the silver coinage would remain 1964 and the clad would remain 1965 until the Treasury Secretary changed the date. The 1965 coins were struck into May of 1966.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mikenoodle, post: 3562164, member: 307"]No, there wasn’t. According to Wikipedia: Section 101 of The Coinage Act of 1965 authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to issue dimes, quarters, and half dollars of clad composition, with the half dollar to be made of 40 percent silver. So long as there was a shortage of coins, the Mint could strike dimes, quarters, and half dollars from .900 silver, but this authority was to end once the secretary certified there was an adequate supply of the new coins in circulation, and in any event five years after the law was enacted (thus, ending July 23, 1970). During that five-year period, no standard silver dollars could be minted.[URL='https://www.cointalk.com/wmfapp://host/fileProxy/-6505586661424178735-index.html#cite_note-coin-62'][62][/URL] The provision of the law that allowed the continued striking of 90% coins stated that the dates on the silver coinage would remain 1964 and the clad would remain 1965 until the Treasury Secretary changed the date. The 1965 coins were struck into May of 1966.[/QUOTE]
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