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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 24686040, member: 4910&quot;]From the &quot;Annual Report of the Director of the Mint&quot; for 1950 available on the Newman Numismatic Portal at:</p><p><a href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/341" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/341" rel="nofollow">https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/341</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Page 53, Domestic coins, including assay pieces, withdrawn from monetary use during the calendar year 1949</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is the column for individual purchases, there is a separate column for coins received from banks.</p><p>The mints paid face value for the coins including gold coins and trade dollars.</p><p>I calculated and added the &quot;number of coins&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Denomination, Purchased (face value), Number of coins</p><p>Gold $3, $15, 5</p><p>Gold $1, $30, 30</p><p>Silver trade dollars, $4, 4</p><p>Silver 20-cent pieces, (zero)</p><p>Silver half dimes, $0.10, 2</p><p>Silver 3-cent pieces, $0.03, 1</p><p>Nickel 3-cent pieces, (zero)</p><p>Copper 1/2-cent pieces, $81.03, 16206 (Somebody had a lot of 1/2 cent pieces)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_tradedollar_1876s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Only worth a dollar? In 1949 yes.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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