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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1311238, member: 66&quot;]Not quite right.&nbsp; The weight was based on the a value of silver of $1.29 an ounce which was about the value in 1873.&nbsp; After that time the value of silver fell considerably.&nbsp; By the 1930&#039;s the melt value of the dime was down to two cents or less.&nbsp; (Silver reached a low of 24 cents an ounce, the silver in the dime was worth 1.73 cents.)&nbsp;&nbsp; It didn&#039;t reach the ten cent level again until 1963 or 1964.&nbsp; Then in 1965 they switched to clad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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