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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jolumoga, post: 1842419, member: 41780&quot;]What I have learned here is that quality control tended to be a big issue in China in the late 19th and early 20th century.&nbsp; Once the communists took over the country, it seems silver became more scarce.&nbsp; There is the tendency for communist countries -- e.g., post-tsarist Russia, post-revolution Cuba and communist China -- to remove the silver content from coins relatively fast.&nbsp; I would guess, as I can only do, that rationing of the metal, as rationing is the norm under communism, was a factor.&nbsp; &nbsp; There is also the possibility of insiders running the mints diluting the metal for their own personal gain, though I tend to think it was most likely the result of rationing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I refer to communism here because some Republic coins were restruck under communism.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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