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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;onecenter, post: 1919047, member: 8703&quot;]Mexico made a concerted effort to get the currently-valued peso into circulation with precious metal.&nbsp; Mexico had a 450+ year tradition of circulating silver until the early 1970s and the effort was to stabilize the coinage and currency system after years of inflation eroded the old peso.&nbsp; The silver bi-metallic coins was a cachet of acceptance to get the new coins circulating.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the developed world, the Federal Republic of Germany is often considered the last country to have truly circulating silver coinage.&nbsp; The strong, expanding then-West German economy sustained true hard currency longer than most of the post-War Allies.&nbsp; I believe the French 50-franc piece was also still circulating for quite some time into the 1970s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other collectors may know more and possibly more correct information on this topic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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