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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 509877, member: 1101&quot;]I am sure you are right about the $5 thing, at least until they demonitized them.&nbsp; But as for the &quot;intended to circulate&quot;, that gets sticky. I believe that the intention was to have them &quot;ciculate&quot; in the Orient.. and in that regard, the denomination was not necessarily intended to be the draw as I don&#039;t think any Asian country had the US dollar as it&#039;s standard form of currency.&nbsp; There were British &quot;Trade Dollars&quot;, Spanish 8 Reales, and a slew of other large silver coins in various currencies.&nbsp; It was the silver that made them of interest.&nbsp; Furthermore, the Trade Dollar has it&#039;s silver content displayed on thr coin, much as the SE does.&nbsp; I would contend that the TD was really meant to trade as bullion, and in that regard it is remarkably similar to today&#039;s SE.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for being able to collect a set of coins from circulation at one time or another being the criteria for designating something a coin, what about proof-only years?&nbsp; Were those not coins also?</p><p><br /></p><p>Just more food for thought - I am not trying to bait anyone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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