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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chemist661, post: 1696386, member: 47840&quot;]When I was a young teen in 1971 (13), I saw some silver in circulation.&nbsp; For no other reason than I didn&#039;t like the look of the clad coins, I saved some silver in circulation.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t earn very much $ except doing odd jobs as a kid.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed that in 1972/73 that there was hardly any silver in circulation.&nbsp; I bought some silver &quot;junk&quot; from a local coin dealer at $1.35 per $1 of face.&nbsp; I paid a little more ($1.50 per $1 face) for Barber quarters/halves and about $2 for a Morgan Silver $.&nbsp; I ended up putting my spare earnings into buying silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted my mother to buy a $1000 face bag of junk silver for $1350 in 1972 but my mother was worried that I would &quot;lose&quot; the coins.&nbsp; Too bad I could not convince her I would not lose the coins.&nbsp; I would have have her take the funds out of the college account that my parents saved up for college that I started in the fall of 1976.&nbsp; $1350 was quite alot of $ in 1972. ( more than 2 yrs of college tuition at a public college at the time). </p><p><br /></p><p>In early (Jan 1980), I sold $100 face of my silver and paid for more than two years of college!!&nbsp; (I sold some of my excess silver for 23 times face!!).&nbsp; I told my mother (since deceased) about what I did and she thought I would just blow my $$!&nbsp; That sale saw me thru part of grad school as the $2300 bought almost 2 yrs of college tuition even during the inflation of the late 1970&#039;s/early 1980&#039;s!</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have about $50-$100 face left mostly over from buys from the coin dealer in 1972.&nbsp; Those coins (barbers, morgans, mercuries, etc ) filled up part of my coin books.&nbsp; I&nbsp; got rid of my worse &quot;junk&quot; of my junk silver coins when I sold in 1980.&nbsp; They did not care what the coins looked like in 1980--just that it was the 90% silver coins back then.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line:&nbsp; I noticed that starting in late 1971 that it was getting harder to see silver in circulation.&nbsp; Too bad that in the mid 70&#039;s that I lost interest in coins and went to stamp collecting.&nbsp; My stamps did not do as well!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Oh well, I had fun with both hobbies.&nbsp; :smile[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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