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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1409380, member: 66&quot;]Most of the coins that had left the country during the Civil War came flooding back into the country around 1873/74 as the value of silver fell and the value of the metal making the worth more as coins.&nbsp; By the late 1870&#039;s the dimes had probably been well absorbed but quarters and halves were &quot;big&quot; money and the returning supply probably pretty well satisfied demand.&nbsp; Add to this the fact the Bland-Allison Act in 1878 required much of the mints coining capacity be dedicated to silver dollar production.&nbsp; So production not dedicated to dollar production was probably reserved mostly for 1 to 10 cent coinage as they were the most needed by the average person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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