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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 93632, member: 66&quot;]Actually the silver dollars were just circulating coins at the time.&nbsp; They were nothing special and in general only worth their face value.&nbsp; You could still pick them up at the bank up until about 1968.&nbsp; It had nothing to do withthe Treasury christmas time disbursals.&nbsp; Any bank, at any time, could order silver dollars from the Fed.&nbsp; In fact the Christmas time increases in the number of dollars disbursed was not a Treasury idea, but just the result of the common practice of people giving silver dollars to kinds at Christmas.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a lot like how it is today.&nbsp; Then it was.&nbsp; &quot;We have made dollar coins (Morgan and Peace) and they are out there available for use but almost no one uses them.&nbsp; If a customer wants them they can have them and if we don&#039;t have any on hand we can order them.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Now it is.&nbsp; &quot;We have made dollar coins (SBA&#039;s and Sac&#039;s) and they are out there available for use but almost no one uses them.&nbsp; If a customer wants them they can have them and if we don&#039;t have any on hand we can order them.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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