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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1543885, member: 4910&quot;]I was sixteen in 1964 and was into coins then.</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew that countries all around the world were abandoning silver in coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I managed to amass a collection of circulated foreign (non US) silver coins from coin shows and dealers, which I still have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers would usually sell the minor silver coins for the equivalent US coin size, crowns (silver dollar size) had a premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also wrote a high school term paper on the US removing silver from coins and the invention of the clad coins, needed to pass as silver in vending machines.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got an &#039;A&#039; on the paper and reused it for a college class a year later.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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