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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;onecenter, post: 2127487, member: 8703&quot;]I have read about a similarly proposed bill in the past.&nbsp; The general thrust is that 90% fineness is so &quot;unusual.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Nobody&quot; uses it anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hardly.&nbsp; I have two brand-spanking new March of Dimes dollars with 2015 dates in 90% silver sitting right next to me as I type this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ninety percent fineness was nearly uniform on all silver US coins from 1837-1964, early trimes being one exception, War nickels of 1942-45, another.&nbsp; The national legal silver standard was reinstated in 1982 for the first modern commemorative halves and then migrated to the post-1982 commemorative silver dollars.&nbsp; It was logically employed for the silver proof sets since 1992.&nbsp; It should have been considered for a silver Sacagawea dollar in 2000, but that is whole different story.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I have a big problem with is the potential for Congress to weaken its documented constitutional authority over coinage specifications, weights and measures and transferring it to the executive branch.&nbsp; James Madison would be rolling over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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