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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1499793, member: 66&quot;]The one question everyone seems to forget about these things is &quot;Was the Mint legally authorized to strike silver coins at that time?&quot;&nbsp; And the answer is no they could not legally make silver coins.&nbsp; So if they can&#039;t legally make coins, then these are not coins.&nbsp; Call them patterns or tokens made to order for someone, but they are not coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion these were struck so Washington could deliver on a political promise.&nbsp; More than a year earlier he had promised to move forward with providing coins for the country.&nbsp; It had been some time so these were struck, Washington mentioned them in his speech, and then nothing else was struck for months.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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