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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2650197, member: 71723&quot;]For what? So they could sit in canvas for 80 years? Comstock was only marginally about San Francisco Morgans. They were all about Carson City, to the point Carson City was closed when Comstock ran out. Do you REALLY want to suggest there was no silver before Comstock? Seriously? C&#039;mon. There WAS NO DEMAND in the east for those rotten coins.&nbsp; Nobody wanted the stupid things.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Bland-Allison Act is one of the all-time stupidest laws in history possibly only surpassed by the Pittman. Bland-Allison made the useless glut of silver an artificially priced quasi-asset and sent the bill to the country at large.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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