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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JoshuaP, post: 25522827, member: 114157&quot;]Not that I am anywhere near being old enough to remember, but my understanding with the silver certificates is that coinage was silver, so you exchanged the paper bill at a bank as simply as you exchange paper for coins today. I can walk into a bank with $5 and ask for a roll of dimes. Back then, they would have been silver. In this way our currency was backed by silver, and you would receive silver. Go back another thirty years and gold would also be available. I just don&#039;t understand why we had silver certificates and non-silver certificates printed at the same time (1934 series, for instance). I would like to hear from others as well and be corrected if this is wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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