Hi Cruzi since I do not know nothing about coins and their history I come to you for help. can you shed light on this? the question came up the other day "why was the round silver 50 cent coin taken out of circulation?" some one said : it was taken out out of "C". because of it's similarity in size with the 20 cent coin but most importantly it was taken out of "C" because the Gov. at the time increased the value of the price of silver and the silver content in the coin outweight the face value of the coin and dubious characters in our community melted the coin down for its silver contend.if this is true could you please confirm this with somesort of written statement as this is very important to me as I am a prospector and occasionally come across a coin like it and the arguements with the club members start all over again every time a coin like this is found I would like to put this arguement to rest once and for all. thank you very much. Regards Cheers Jack
