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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2561806, member: 19250"]One other post I will make about silver  dollars is a story of my Grandmother  80 th birthday . I trying to recall if it was 1962 or 63. As she passed in November  of 63 the day before Kennedy being killed in Dallas.The family had a party for her ,at her age she needed nothing ,she lived with us  as she was just about totally  blind . My father said  to the family  members that each would give her a silver dollar totaling 80 for her birthday  gift.One may  think that's  a cheap gift ,one needs to remember  that "a dollar" in 1960 had buying power!My father working  at the Federal  Reserve brought home 80 some coins. The family  members paid him for each coin.Then gave them to Grandmother  one each for a gift. Again she was blind  but knew the feel of a big silver coin. And $80 as a birthday  gift was pretty nice gift in again 1960's money.Again this was 1960 so the coins were deposited  to my grandmother   bank account  on Monday morning .In  less than 4 years it would of been a totally  different  story as yes you could still find silver in change,and silver dollars were still available  somewhat however it was the turning point never to be revisited  again. I often  wonder  what the dates were on those 80 cartwheels.[/QUOTE]