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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 1594441, member: 6229&quot;]<b>to Aiden Work</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Congress suspended coinage of the silver dollar affter 1904 because demand for it waned and the government&#039;s supply of silver was exhausted.</p><p>The Pittman Act dealt with the bullion volume of silver and not the intrinsic nor the face values of the coins. If it were not for melting silver dollars there would not have been any silver dollars minted in 1921, authorized or not.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Treashunt gave a very difinitive answer. Remember, the Peace dollars were not authorized by Congress either. The Peace Dollar was to be a commerative in the intentions of the director.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Because of the Pittman Act the 21 Morgan Dollars and Peace Dollars could just as well as been silver half dollars or any other silver coin. It was the mint director&#039;s decision to mint dollars.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Clinker[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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