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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3470931, member: 66&quot;]No.&nbsp; Because the dollars melted by the Pittman act did not come proportionately from all the dates and mints produced.&nbsp; Frankly the melt was probably higher in proportion to dates more recently produced because they would have been closer to the front of the vaults.&nbsp; You also have the question of whether a given production was put into circulation or mostly just sent straight to the vaults.&nbsp; Case in point is the 1884 CC dollar.&nbsp; This used to be a rare coin and very rare in uncirculated condition.&nbsp; Then in 1964 after the Treasury stopped redeeming silver certificates with silver dollars and inventory of the vaults found that 84% of the entire mintage was still in the mint vaults still in the original bags.</p><p><br /></p><p>To a large extent the morgan and peace dollars never circulated and were mostly just stored in the vaults to be used as backing for silver certificates.&nbsp; Draw down of silver dollars in exchange for silver certificates in the 1950&#039;s and 60&#039;s is why there are so many Uncirculated pieces existing today.&nbsp; Those pieces that are scarce today in unc are the ones that were circulated instead of going to the vaults.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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