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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 340001, member: 112&quot;]No there were no commems before that. But they started making Proofs specifically for collectors in 1858. </p><p><br /></p><p>With the commems, once they got started good - they went nuts. They completely saturated the market with commems and by the &#039;30s nobody even wanted to hear the word. As a result, a lot of the early silver commems actually did circulate - they couldn&#039;t sell them so they just put them into circulation. By the time the 50&#039;s rolled around they finally gave up and commems were dead until 1982.</p><p><br /></p><p>By &#039;96, they had over-saturated the market again. That&#039;s when they came up with the new rule of only 2 commems per year. Today, they are issuing everything they can. BUt as just about anybody can see - the over-saturation is here for the 3rd time. I doubt it will be the last. In 10 years or so, look for it to happen again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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