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Podoprigora
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United States
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 Posted 11/06/2009 1:30 pm
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Which coin was the last one that contained at least some portion of silver. And I don't just mean U.S but in general.
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nod2003
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United States
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Posted 11/06/2009 2:27 pm
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The last US circulating coins with silver was the 1969 half. I do not know of any foreign circulating silver coins newer then that, though I do not know too much about non-US issues.
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Buzzard
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United States
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Posted 11/06/2009 2:42 pm
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The Mexico 20 New Pesos coin minted from 1993-1995 was a circulating silver coin. It has .250 ounces in silver weight. Their face value when they were in circulation was approximately two dollars, as I recall.
Later than that, I think that the best candidate for "last circulating silver" may be some of the Austrian commemoratives that were distributed at face value in Austria in the 1990s.
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nod2003
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United States
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Posted 11/06/2009 2:54 pm
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I suppose technically it is possible that some current US coins have a few parts per billion of silver as an impurity. But I think that pod is looking for a coin that was intentionally minted with silver content.
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Sap
Moderator
Australia
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Posted 11/06/2009 9:05 pm
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I agree with Buzzard; the last "circulating silver" were 10 and 20 peso coins issued by Mexico in the early 1990's. These were bimetallic, with a brass ring around a silver core, and as soon as the intrinsic value ofthe silver content rose above face value, people would pop the cores a=out and melt them down. The experiment was a failure.
The Mexican coins should really be considered an attempt to re-introduce silver, rather than "holdout" of the good old days of the 1960's. The last of those holdouts was Germany (it was West Germany back then) with it's silver 5 marks, issued up to 1974.
Some European countries (France, Germany, Austria, perhaps some others) issue (or have issued in recent times) some silver coins for face value, but these aren't intended to circulate and for the most part, they don't.
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XavierOfGreen
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USA
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harrison2
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Mexico
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Posted 11/10/2009 04:12 am
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For what it's worth...there are still 100 peso mexican coins being punched out with a silver core (seen a 2003 and a 2008). They are not common, but I have seen some that look like they were circulated.
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just carl
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