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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2740991, member: 66&quot;]And silver was NOT demonitized, it was just now the government purchased what they needed and struck coins for their own accounts,&nbsp; Free coinage of silver for silver dollars for the public ended.&nbsp; (Free coinage of the minor coins had ended in 1853) The silver coins were still perfectly acceptable and legal tender (for up to $5 for the minor coins, silver dollars were still unlimited legal tender.)</p><p><br /></p><p>To a large extent the Coinage Act of 1873 was of no great concern until the panic of 1893 (Which was brought about by the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890).&nbsp; The public wanted an expansion of the money supply&nbsp; and one of the ways they wanted it was by a return to free coinage of silver which the Act of 1873 had ended.&nbsp; Hence &quot;The Crime of 1873.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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