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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1502283, member: 66&quot;]They will be happy to give you any they have on hand, but they don&#039;t want to order any more to be shipped in.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think they had any problem with the early coins other than they had too much silver in them and so they were profitable to export.&nbsp; There weren&#039;t any dollar coins from 1803 to 1840 but I think the 1840 to 1849 dollars were probably popular.&nbsp; After all which would you rather have a heavy silver dollar of good value, or paper dollars of questionable value that might not be usable at all and if you can spend them it might only be at a discount.&nbsp; In that case give me the silver dollars every time.</p><p><br /></p><p>After about 1850 silver dollars would have declined in desirability because the metal in them was worth more than the face value so every time you spent one you were losing money.&nbsp; Then you had the Civil War which kept all gold and silver out of circulation.&nbsp; When the silver did return to circulation you now had paper currency backed by the Federal government that you knew were good for their face value everywhere.&nbsp; So these light weight paper dollars were preferred over the heavy silver dollars and that was how it has been since then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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