What Are Some Recent Silver Coins Intended For Circulation?

Canada was 1968 (50% silver dimes and quarters) There were also nickel versions minted for the same year.

I got a silver-centred 20 peso coin from a bank in Huatulco last October, when I exchanged some money and asked the teller for some $20 coins. I asked if she had any others, but they were all cupro-nickel centre ones.

By 1969, practically every country in the world had abandoned silver coinage - the continuous postwar price rises leading up to the Silver Spike had convinced every government that silver was now an unviable coinage metal. The (West) Germans kept making their 5 mark coins up until 1974, but were making them at a serious loss by then and hoarders were acquiring them faster than they could be made.

Mexico is an unusual situation of an economically poor country with a large silver output. As a result they have a powerful silver lobby there, which has twice persuaded the government there that putting silver back into circulation would be a miracle cure for the economy and prevent the slide of the peso. Both times they've tried it, it hasn't worked - the peso kept sliding, and when the metal content exceeded face value, they all disappeared from circulation, pronto.

The second time, in the 1990s, they hoped that using the silver as the core of a bimetallic coin would make destroying them for their bullion content too difficult and prevent their getting lost in the melting pot. It didn't work; people simply punched out the silver cores and melted those.

Some countries (eg. Germany, France, Austria) continued making "face value" silver coins, some selling them through the banks. But they were the equivalent of the modern Canadian "$20 for $20" programme, intended for collectors and never considered "circulation" in any significant sense.

Should have picked them up! The $20 note gets more use than the $20 coin, and I've heard from more than one trade partner in Mexico that they're hard to come by outside the capital and cost more than $20 to buy (especially certain dates). And there have been at least 4 new types issued since 2010, which makes the collection more interesting.

Krause reports approximately 11 million 200 Forint 50% fine .193 ASW silver coins were minted in the years 1992 to 1994 inclusive.
That's 66 tonnes of silver that went into the production of coin for those years.
That much consumption of silver indicates 'issued for circulation'.

A good reason why I will look for an example of a 200 Forint for my collection.

A few years ago( not more than 10) Austria was producing €5.00 coins that could be used for general circulation. I saw a few advertisements pushing the point......but despite being legal to circulate they didn't. Rhetorical question: Who would spend a Silver €5.00 coin when they could spend a plastic note instead! When the silver price pushed the value of the silver in the coin over €5.00 they switched to copper....likewise the copper coins don't circulate. I saw someone showing off a copper €5.00 coin in the local Tabak a couple of years ago. The shop owner was very prepared to take it in payment but they guy refused to part with it