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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sullysullinburg, post: 2272015, member: 73996&quot;]Well this question depends on a few factors. One of the most important is, do you mean legally or in practice? As someone mentioned earlier you may still be able to spend old Spanish silver (if some one can look this up and confirm it that would be super cool) at Post Offices, <i><b>legally, </b></i>however; in practice they won&#039;t accept it. Legally speaking, from what I understand, all coins authorized by Congress and created by the U.S. Mint are legal tender for all debts public and private. Now there is some funny loopholes in this that technically make Type 2 SLQ not legal tender because the type to revamp was not authorized by Congress and I&#039;m sure there are other coins like it but, to answer you question here are the oldest dates I&#039;ve found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cents: 1887 IH</p><p>Nickels: 1912-D</p><p>Dimes: 1916 Mercury</p><p>Quarters: 1934 (My Profile Pic)</p><p>Half Dollars: 1965</p><p>Dollars: 1971</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To really answer your question, you pretty much need to find out one thing. In practice, when did people stop spending/accepting large cents? Then add that to the end date on when the coin series ended and tada you have a rough answer. Hope this helps.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. If that law about spending Spanish Silver in Post Offices is still in effect, could someone tape themselves trying to spend some to ship something?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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