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Why are 1947 quarters silver?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Until the end of 1964 the dime, quarter and half-dollar (along with dollar coins) were 90% silver. Our founding fathers wanted all of our coins to be roughly equivalent to the bullion value in them, they distrusted Fiat currencies.

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