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Message:: [QUOTE="Treashunt, post: 178983, member: 6763"]Heck yeah!   In fact there were lines of people on 47th Street in Manhattan outside the jewelry shops.  It was a really wild time.I got married that year, and we paid a TON for our wedding bands, with gold even crazier than silver.  I did manage to sell an old silver serving dish for hundreds of dollars, and just a month or two later it was worth very little, after the Hunts failed and silver crashed.   Pick up a copy of the 1981 Red Book ( Guide Book of US Coins) and take a look at the base silver values.Junk silver dimes were listed at $3, and quarters at $6.25! It is fun reading about those times. In the back of the book it is noted that the coins are valued with silver at $35 (!) and gold at $650 an ounce. (At least we are seeing gold up there again).[/QUOTE]