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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2312194, member: 12789&quot;]Not quite, owing to technical difficulties at the time they were made most of them test out at approximately 93% silver - obviously they were monetary counterfeits made to make money by depositing them into the system at a time when silver was averaging 25-30 cents an ounce.&nbsp; That is what makes them so fascinating, they were not made to fool unsuspecting collectors, they were made to be used as money and they stayed that way for about 30-40 years or so.&nbsp; I really do wonder where and when they were made and if perhaps a foreign government that at a similar time was cranking out very good forgeries of large sized US paper money might have been involved, since they were also cranking out copies of earlier coinage from their own realm to spend into the western European economy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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