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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 989295, member: 66&quot;]Several people have mentioned that the Coinage act of 1965 restored the Legal Tender status to the Trade dollar.&nbsp; For a long time that was what I thought as well.&nbsp; Turns out we were wrong.&nbsp; The Trade dollar was already legal tender when the act of 1965 was being debated.&nbsp; I have found where the legal tender status was restored in 1933.</p><p><br /></p><p>73d Congress Sess I Chs 48, 49 June 5,6 1933&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; pg 133</p><p><br /></p><p>All coins and currencies of the United States (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations) heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues, except that gold coins, when below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, shall be legal tender only at valuation in proportion to their actual weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Approved, June 5, 1933, 4:40 PM[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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