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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2272289, member: 66&quot;]Well Scottishmoney has indicated that older British coins are redeemable but no longer legal tender so that takes them out of the running.&nbsp; It really looks like the 1793 Chain cent is the oldest coin that is still legal tender.</p><p><br /></p><p>The trade dollar was legal tender (for amounts up to $5) from 1873 to mid 1876.&nbsp; Then the legal tender status was removed.&nbsp; A Congressional resolution in 1933 restored the legal tender status and it was codified into law by the coinage act of 1965.</p><p><br /></p><p>The act of 1857 eliminated the legal tender status of the spanish colonial silver as of two years after the passage of the act.&nbsp; Post offices were permitted to accept the spanish fractional silver at reduced rates after that time and that legislation was extended several times.&nbsp; But the coins were NOT legal tender.&nbsp; I believe the final extension of that permission expired before the re-codification of the coinage laws by the acts of 1873 and 1874.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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