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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;spandau, post: 58311, member: 3513&quot;]Hi Cruzi</p><p>since I do not know nothing about coins and their history I come to you </p><p>for help. can you shed light on this?</p><p>the question came up the other day &quot;why was the round silver 50 cent </p><p>coin taken out of circulation?&quot;</p><p>some one said : it was taken out out of &quot;C&quot;. because of it&#039;s similarity in size</p><p>with the 20 cent coin but most importantly it was taken out of &quot;C&quot;</p><p>because the Gov. at the time increased the value of the price of silver and</p><p>the silver content in the coin&nbsp; outweight the face value of the coin and</p><p>dubious characters in our community melted the coin down for its </p><p>silver contend.if this is true could you please confirm this with somesort</p><p>of written statement as this is very important to me as I am a prospector</p><p>and occasionally come across a coin like it and the arguements with the </p><p>club members start all over again every time a coin like this is found</p><p>I would like to put this arguement to rest once and for all.</p><p>thank you very much.</p><p>Regards</p><p>Cheers Jack[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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