The First Silver Coin

I remember my first silver coin.  It was a dime that I got back as changes at the Circle K.  I remember when the laddie behind the counter gave it to me.  As a coin collector I knew what it was when I saw it in her hand.  I was saying to myself, "please, oh please don’ look at it".  She didn’t.  That was my first pre 1966 silver coin.  You won’t see any of them in circulation anymore.  Those were the good old days.

Metal In Newer Silver Coin Drops To Nothing

For over 170 years, the U.S. Mint was authorized to stamp a silver coin in different denominations, and through the course of history in which silver played an important role, there was a silver coin for dollars, half dollars, quarters and dimes. In 1965 a worldwide silver shortage resulted in the making of a silver coin against presidential order and the coins went from 90 percent silver to zero in dimes and quarters and to 40 percent in the half dollar. More on The First Silver Coin