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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2783051, member: 27832"]Nope. Just nope. As long as people have a choice of what to spend and what to keep, they'll keep the good stuff and spend the bad stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Half dollars circulated heavily up until the early 1960s. Once everything else was clad, even the 40% of silver in a new half dollar, worth much less than 50 cents at the time, was enough to keep them mostly out of circulation. By the time half dollars moved to cupronickel clad, people had gotten out of the habit of using them, and they never recovered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2783051, member: 27832"]Nope. Just nope. As long as people have a choice of what to spend and what to keep, they'll keep the good stuff and spend the bad stuff. Half dollars circulated heavily up until the early 1960s. Once everything else was clad, even the 40% of silver in a new half dollar, worth much less than 50 cents at the time, was enough to keep them mostly out of circulation. By the time half dollars moved to cupronickel clad, people had gotten out of the habit of using them, and they never recovered.[/QUOTE]
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