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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 26089001, member: 66&quot;]Canada may have followed the US example.&nbsp; Once the clad coins began they made both clad and silver coins (dated 1964) into 1966, telling us the whole time that there was no reason to hoard the silver coins because both compositions would co-circulate for many years to come.&nbsp; And just about as soon as they stopped making the silver coins, the Federal Reserve installed two large machines designed to separate the clad and silver coins.&nbsp; Then they routed all coins returned as excess from the banks through them.&nbsp; The silver coins were retained for melting and the clad coins recycled back to the banks.&nbsp; They shut the program down sometime around 1970 when the amount of silver coins being recovered didn&#039;t justify the programs continuance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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