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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ziggy29, post: 26406, member: 1113&quot;]Thanks.&nbsp; It&#039;s something I&#039;ve often thought about.&nbsp; I mean, you see enough well-work Walkers and VF early Franklins that you can tell these coins were used and used with some frequency.&nbsp; Somewhere along the line, we just stopped using the half dollar, deciding instead to rely on paper money and the quarter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver dollar-sized coins, on the other hand, were never really popular except where other money wasn&#039;t readily available (particularly the West, as is the case with a fair number of Carson City dollars).&nbsp; And even that &quot;popularity,&quot; such as it was, died by the early 20th century as more coinage (and paper money) of other denominations made its way out west and the frontier was &quot;closed.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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