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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1823948, member: 44079&quot;]When I was a youngster in the very early 60s I could (and did) walk into the Dollar Savings Bank or the First National City Bank and&nbsp; easily exchange $1 bills for both silver dollars and half dollars.&nbsp; Sometime around 63 they stopped giving me silver dollars, the were out of them they said.&nbsp; But I still got half dollars with no problem. </p><p><br /></p><p>Two things killed that.&nbsp; One was the clad dollar.&nbsp; The big one was the Federal Govt. deciding (1965?) that they would no longer redeem or accept silver certificates.&nbsp; Suddenly the bank no longer wanted to hand over those silver halfs.&nbsp; Instead us kids were supposed to want the Kennedy&#039;s.&nbsp; Yeah sure, one or two while they were silver.&nbsp; When clad came out and I walked in with some paper bills I watched a teller pick through the halves and give me only the clads.&nbsp; She said that was bank policy.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t want them.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t alone.&nbsp; No one got to vote on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course back then DC&#039;s money experts (crooks all) viewed inflation as good.&nbsp; To launch it we had to come off the silver standard.&nbsp; Pretty similar to the crime of 1873, but for different motivations (USSR, Marshall Plan, balance of trade in a post WWII environment, etc.).&nbsp; As an ad I was looking at recently pointed out (correctly), in the 60s you could buy 4 gallons of gas with two halfs, or a silver dollar (or a paper one).&nbsp; Today the silver dollar is still worth 4 gallons of gas, but the paper dollar only buys you 1/3 of one gallon (even less in some places).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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