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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1611831, member: 42773&quot;]Basically, yes. But the Oreo cookie is made first. The sheets of metal are bonded together before the planchets are punched out of them. It&#039;s the same way all clad coins are made.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a good question. I&#039;ve never understood it myself. If you&#039;re making coins for collectors, why not go all the way with 90% silver?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, the forty-percenters were an effort to KEEP silver in circulation. The 90% silver Kennedys of 1964 were hoarded, not only because of their silver content, but for nostalgic reasons, since they were issued very soon after the president&#039;s assassination. </p><p><br /></p><p>It worked for a while, but as silver spot increased in value throughout the 60&#039;s, the clad coins started getting hoarded as well, so that by 1971, the mint had transitioned entirely to cupro-nickel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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