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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 5411896, member: 26302&quot;]@jeffb gave you the best source. Anecdotally, the only thing I have is from my neighbor who was an early metal detectorist. In the late 1970&#039;s I would go out with him, and looked at what he found, since he knew I liked coins. He showed me a few half dimes he found, and said one he found in a deposit with a 1913 buffalo nickel. He said they were touching each other in the hole. He really showed me because it was a Type 2 1913 D, and he said how weird was that, a scarce buffalo in the same hole as a half dime. </p><p><br /></p><p>It makes sense. Back then silver was just silver, and a half dime for the first half of the 20th century had less than 5 cents of silver in it. I would think when all SL coinage started to get hoarded by new coin collectors is when half dimes would have ceased to circulate, so maybe pre or shortly post WWII. My uncle told me he used to get SL coins before WWII and they went away pretty much after the war since WWII coins were produced in such huge numbers. </p><p><br /></p><p>All I have, but Jeff gave you a better answer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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