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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2471721, member: 12789&quot;]The last 90% silver coins were struck in 1966, the mint was using up the last of the silver and froze the 1964 date on coins struck in 90%.&nbsp; The 1965 dated clad coins were not minted until late in 1965 and quickly released in the fall of that year.&nbsp; From anecdotal accounts of that time there was a decent sized coin shortage going on because of people saving silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another problem was changing the half over from the Franklin to the new Kennedy half early in 1964, people quickly hoarded the coin less for the silver and more for the souvenir of Kennedy aspect.&nbsp; Until then half dollars were fairly common in circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was a kid in the 1970s and a collector and don&#039;t remember seeing any 90% coins ever, only the occasional 40% 1965-69 half would turn up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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