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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zaneman, post: 166590, member: 3970&quot;]I noticed Jim&#039;s thread, and it made me think of this question, and&nbsp; I found the anwer to be an interesting piece of history, and thought I would share (source is the Breen encyclopedia).</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparantly in order to handle precious metals, there was a 10,000 dollar surety bond needed. Back then, no one had that kind of money that wanted the position, so George Washington had to lower the bonds to a much lesser amount. After it was lowered, they were able to start producing silver coins in 1794.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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