Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 514472, member: 66&quot;]Which comments do you disagree with?&nbsp; I&#039;ve attached a PDF that shows pictorially which coins were legal tender and when and is indexed with the different Acts that provided the legal tender authorization.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One thing to remember is the acts that specified legal tender status for the various coins also specified specific time periods that they would be legal tender, ie: 3 years, 6 years etc.&nbsp; Typically another act would be passed to extend&nbsp; the time period or to change the coins that were legal.&nbsp; But often the legislation would run out and the Congress didn&#039;t bother to pass new legislation to extend it.&nbsp; In that case the coin would cease to be legal tender when the legislation expired.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example my comment about how none of the Spanish silver was legal tender from 1801 to 1806.&nbsp; If you look at the PDF file you will see under the Spanish silver&nbsp; a reference in 1798 to the Act of Feb 1st 1798. here is the text of that act</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; second section of an act, intituled “An act regulating</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; foreign coins, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; hereby suspended, for and during the space of three years</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; from and after the first day of January, one thousand</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; seven hundred and ninety-eight, and until the end of the</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; next session of Congress thereafter, during which time the</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; said gold and silver coins shall be and continue a legal</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; tender, as is provided in and by the first section of the act</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; aforesaid; and that the same coins shall thereafter cease</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; to be such tender.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first Act referred to was the Act of Feb 9th 1793 that made the coins legal tender.&nbsp; That act was suspended, and then this act extended the legal tender status of those same coins for a further three years and then until the end of the next session of Congress.&nbsp; That session mentioned ended when the next Congress took office in 1802.&nbsp; But no further legislation was passed to extend the legal tender status of the Spanish silver until the Act of April 10th 1806.&nbsp; So from roughly the end of 1801/early 1802 until April 1806 Spanish silver was not legal tender in the United States.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in