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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 211969, member: 4626&quot;]Hmm, did anyone at the time come to the more obvious collection that <i>everyone</i> was hoarding away silver, not just collectors?</p><p><br /></p><p>My parents and grandparents recall that just about everyone they knew was saving any silver coins away, in case they became valuable later.&nbsp; My parents still have their &quot;silver stash&quot; that they saved from that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>1964 over 1 billion Jefferson nickels were minted <i>from each Mint</i> trying to make up for the shortage of dimes, qaurters, and half dollars.&nbsp; It wouldn&#039;t be until 1995 that mintage of nickels passed one billion again (again, for each Mint, not just the aggregate total).</p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned in another thread, this hoarding is also what killed the half dollar as a standard circulating coin... people kept hoarding the silver ones away and by the time they started minted them in clad, people had seven years to get used to not having a half dollar around, and they never would circulate widely again, except in and near casinos.&nbsp; My dad remembers before 1964 it was no more unusual to pay with, or receive change in, half dollars than it was to pay with or get pennies in change.&nbsp; Now there&#039;s people who weren&#039;t even born yet when the Kennedy halves were first minted that have never seen one or know that they are still minted.&nbsp; It always gets a reaction when I spend any... it&#039;s obvious many have never seen them before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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