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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;drorchid, post: 1184026, member: 19058&quot;]This may be a dumb question, but the 5 oz Silver Coin is &quot;Legal Tender&quot; as a 25 cent piece. Why do they make a coin like that worth only &quot;25 cent&quot;; why don&#039;t they make it closer to what it is really worth, say like $ 250? If it was really worth that much it would be fun to take it to a store and say buy a loaf of bread and see the reaction on the cashiers face when you put down the &quot;hockey puck&quot; to pay for it. Now I am not going to use it as a 25 cent piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Netherlands when the guilder was still around they had silver $ 50 guilder pieces (worth about $ 25 dollars at the time) that were about the size of a Morgan Dollar. I used to get them at the Bank for 50 guilders and actually went to the store and used them (although most people collected them).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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