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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8148305, member: 66&quot;]Wouldn&#039;t have really mattered to them at all, as long as they could get the silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nope, silver is silver and coins are coins.&nbsp; The coins had a face value they would be accepted at no matter what the price of silver was, and silver had a free market price set by the commodity markets.&nbsp; The price of silver had been dropping ever since the 1860/70&#039;s with all the silver coming out of the western mines, and the demonetization of silver by several nations in Europe.&nbsp; By the 1930&#039;s silver got down to around 25 cents an oz.&nbsp; (So a silver dollar had about 18 cents worth of silver in it.&nbsp; So one silver dollar with 18 cents worth of silver in it would buy 4 oz. of silver bullion.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a copy of the book, it is interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any Lesher Dollars, but one of the member of one of the local clubs did collect them.&nbsp; I believe he had 8 to 10 varieties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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