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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1212439, member: 66&quot;]The government would rather have gotten rid of ALL the silver in 1965.&nbsp; The agreement to leave the half dollars at 40% silver was a bone thrown to the Congressmen and Senators of the silver producing states in order to secure their votes on the coinage act of 1965 that gave us the clad coinage composition.&nbsp; Likewise the 40% silver was a bone both to the silver states and to the coin collectors to give them a real silver &quot;silver&quot; dollar.&nbsp; And none of the 40% Ikes were made for circulation.&nbsp; The brown Ikes threw bones at a lot of people, the silver states, the coin collectors, and the congressmen of New York who got a provision added that gave one dollar from the sale of every Proof Silver Ike to Eisenhower College (student body of around 460 students) in Senaca Falls New York.&nbsp; This gave the school almost $10 million dollars between 1971 and 1974.&nbsp; (Oddly enough I seem to recall the 1990 Ike Centennial dollar also gave money to the college, but Eisenhower College closed in 1979.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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