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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 3205915, member: 20480&quot;]Minor silver coinage was already running short in the early 1960&#039;s, and the mint was undoubtedly looking for viable alternatives in 1961, because they had to have a solution in hand long before the coinage act of 1965.</p><p><br /></p><p>With its more modern, better maintained equipment at the time, the Denver Mint was better prepared to strike prototypes in harder metals than was Philadelphia, so the striking of this coin in 1961 and in Denver isn&#039;t implausible to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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