what was the wisdom behind making pre '65 coinage 90% silver - DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate

**Blolover11** · 09-04-2012, 02:25 PM

instead of just making it .999? seems like it would have been much easier to just melt + pour .999 without mixing in 10% "crap" metals. also, since silver is much harder than gold, there's really no reason i see to harden it with other stuff. why was this done? why didn't they just do .999?

09-04-2012, 02:25 PM	#1
Blolover11 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	what was the wisdom behind making pre '65 coinage 90% silver instead of just making it .999? seems like it would have been much easier to just melt + pour .999 without mixing in 10% "crap" metals. also, since silver is much harder than gold, there's really no reason i see to harden it with other stuff. why was this done? why didn't they just do .999? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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