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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25491795, member: 101855&quot;]To expand on this, the United States coins that we collect prior to the Civil War were, for a long time, only a small part of the money that circulated in the U.S. When the first Philadelphia Mint closed in 1832, there were more people living in the United States than U.S. Mint made coins in circulation. Most of coins were foreign, and there were also many tokens. </p><p><br /></p><p>There was a reason why Spanish Empire coins continued to be legal tender in the United States until 1857. The economy needed to them to survive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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