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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1162555, member: 66&quot;]Yes but in the 50&#039;s a silver coin would not have been too heavy.&nbsp; The problem began in 1965 with the clad coins.&nbsp; Most counters and detectors check coins for size and weight (Electronic signatures didn&#039;t become important until much later.).&nbsp; The weights of the clad coins was significantly different and if they set the weight discrimination wide enough to pass both it also passed a bunch of slugs.&nbsp; Vending machines had a real problem in the mid sixties.&nbsp; They could be set to accept silver or clad but not both.&nbsp; As clad came to dominate the setting were gradually all changed to accept clad.&nbsp; so now today the machines reject silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I seriously doubt that Loomis or Brinks pull silver.&nbsp; With the huge volume of coins they process each day they would not have the time to do it manually (How many hundred of boxes can you go through day in day out.)&nbsp; It would be possible to have machinery that could do it, but the percentage of silver in circulation is so small they probably wouldn&#039;t consider it to be worthwhile.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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