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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7946475, member: 101855&quot;]The real reason was that the western state silver lobby wanted to government to buy up more of their excess production and support the silver market.</p><p><br /></p><p>The made-up reason was that consumers were paying for an item priced at “one bit” or 12 1/2 cents, paying with a quarter, and only getting a dime in change. With a Twenty Cent Piece, the consumer, not the storekeeper, would get the 2 1/2 cent difference. It was all foolishness, but have things really changed?</p><p><br /></p><p>If consumer protection had been the real reason, the government could have expanded cent product to the western mints, but that was too logical.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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