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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;swhuck, post: 787955, member: 21044&quot;]The other thing about 1965 is that I think they didn&#039;t make the changeover to clad coins until very late in the year, and that they continued making silver coins dated in 1964 until the change. I remember reading an article in a coin magazine from that time talking about the mint needing to get the new blanks ready before the end of the year because they didn&#039;t want to be striking 1964-dated coins in 1966. This was a little bit before my time collecting, so I don&#039;t remember it firsthand.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>However, the person who mentioned 1857 has a very good point; foreign coins were legal tender until that time. In addition, it&#039;s probably only been the last 120 years or so when virtually everything that circulated was a US coin. Before that, there were shortages, some caused by geography, some by laws (Bland-Allison act, anyone?), some by wars, and so on. People needed circulating money, and they spent and accepted whatever they could. This is why we had civil war tokens, fractional gold, and fractional currency.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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