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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2471747, member: 19250&quot;]As stated 1964 was the last year coins were minted containing&nbsp; silver. 1965,66,&amp;67 Kennedy&nbsp; half dollars&nbsp; were clad with 40% silver.</p><p>I say by 67-69 most of the silver coins were picked out of circulation . Yes once and a while you find one here and there.</p><p>At 9 I had a paper route my collection&nbsp; bag that I used monthly&nbsp; to collect&nbsp; for the papers was full of all silver coins.</p><p>That would of been 1963 ,I was paid in silver certificates , red seals 2 &#039; s and 5 &#039; s . My bag&nbsp; at any one time had buffalo nickels,war nickels, Mercury ,Roosevelt&nbsp; dimes, SLQ,and Washington , Walkers,and Franklin&nbsp; half&#039;s . </p><p>Once and a blue moon a Peace or Morgan&nbsp; dollar.</p><p>My neighbor father who serviced juke boxes, pin ball, and cigarette&nbsp; machines came home nightly with bags of silver coins.</p><p>Sometimes&nbsp; he let me search his bags picking out coins I needed to fill my albums.</p><p>By 1969 picking&nbsp; got slim..... as most knew that silver coins were gone for good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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