in order to protect against upcoming silver surge. the mint might use 40% silver instead of 90% for minting the modern commems silver dollar. or even 50% gold five dollar piece. is this a good idea?. your comment please.
40% silver in my humble opinion is a very bad idea. I WON'T COLLECT THEM.....leave them at 90% silver content.
If I like the design, I'll collect it no matter what metal they make it out of. One of my favorite moder commemoratives is the Statue of Liberty half, and it doesn't bother me that it's copper-nickel clad. Prefer they keep it at 90% silver rather than 40% but it's not a deal breaker for me. If I like the design I'll collect it even if they mint it on aluminum.
it would be dumb to change the composition if they can just raise the price and keep it 90%.. 40% silver was used so that the coins can be kept in circulation and not be melted, it doesn't make sense for products for collectors
40% silver content i remembered the ike 40% silver dollar dated 1971 to 1978. and the kennedy 40% silver half dollar dated 1965 to 1970. it was not bad at all.
How can they call it a Silver Dollar if it has less than 50% Silver LOL would be a shame if they do follow this route. De Orc
the reason was to keep the coin in circulation... and still have some silver content... it doesn't make sense to make something like that for collectors
Just for the record, the Ike dollars struck for circulation were clad coins. Only special collector issues were struck in 40% Silver. All of them, with the exception of some Bicentenial issues, were minted at San Francisco.
40% silver they should have made all half dollar modern commems in 40% silver instead of clad cupro-nickel.
clad half dollar starting from 1986 to 2003 modern commems half dollars were made of clad cu-ni. with the exception of 1993 madison half dollar, which is 90% silver.
1986 Statue of Liberty, 1989 Congress Bicentennial, 1991 Mount Rushmore 50th Anniversary, 1992 XXV Olympiad, 1992 Christopher Columbus Anniversary, 1993 WWII 50th Anniversary, 1994 World Cup, 1995 Civil War Battlefields, 1995 Olympics (4 different varieties), 2001 Capitol Visitor Center, 2003 First Flight Centennial. All of the half dollar commemoratives from 1892 to 1954 were 90% silver. Of modern half dollar commemoratives, only the 1982 Geroge Washington half (250th Anniversary) and the 1993 Bill of Rights half were minted in silver, all others since 1986 were copper-nickel clads.
