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Message:: [QUOTE="cladking, post: 2471837, member: 68"]It was the spring/ summer of 1969. Silver was disappearing sporatically and continually as the price increased and often got above face in the late-'60's.  But then in '68 the price got up and stayed up and the FED started removing all silver that came in. This wasn't announced and not widely known at the time but no silver was coming out once it went in.  By the late summer of 1969 it  was no longer economically feasible to roll the coins through inertial separators to get the silver and they stopped.  Of course there were stray silver coins in piggy banks and elsewhere that trickled into circulation at least for several years but by 1971 you simply didn't see any silver in the Chicago area.  There may have been a single silver quarter in a bag of quarters or as about the same as now.  Indeed, the incidence of silver has been very steady over the years and hitting its lowest level in 2007 and highest in 2010. I couldn't tell you how much variation there was across the country and I hear tell there was more silver in Maine but I doubt the variation is as much as is often reported.  Some people just got into a small area or near the source of a "contamination" and assume what they saw was the same everywhere.[/QUOTE]