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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3079997, member: 27832"]Wake up, Kurt, you just illustrated "circular argument". <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> As I've read, silver dollars were always unpopular in most of the country -- people preferred paper money over heavy, bulky coins. But silver interests lobbied to make sure plenty were minted, so many of them just sat in bags. Half dollars, on the other hand, circulated a lot, at least until the 1960s. Walkers had 20 to nearly 50 years to circulate, and most of them show it. (Barbers tend to be even flatter, but they started out with a flatter design.) If you got a half dollar in change, you'd be unlikely to just tuck it away somewhere, because that was a big chunk of change -- something like $5-10 today. A silver dollar was an even bigger chunk, of course -- but you'd never get that in the first place, because you'd ask for a one-dollar bill instead. At least, that's my understanding.[/QUOTE]