Re: OT: Coins, etc. was Re: Languages in Europe - Who understands what ?

From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas.NOSPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:46:10 -0500

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:34:01 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>randee wrote:
>
>> b) Absolutely you could get US dollar coins (silver dollars) for $1.
>> They were certainly in common use in the mountain states of the western
>> US through the mid 50's, on vacation we got those in change rather than
>> $1 bills. You could get US silver dollars at most any US bank in
>> exchange for bills up through 1964 at least. I used to get several
>> rolls of them when I cashed my paycheck and go through them for dates I
>> needed. How long they were available after that I do not know as I got
>> out of coin collecting then.
>
>You referred to two designs -- Morgan dollars and Peace dollars -- that
>were decades out of circulation by "1964 at least."

Stick to languages, please! Both designs could be found in circulation
until at least the mid 1960s (varied by region, naturally). I find it
difficult to believe that the large sized notes lasted into the 1940s,
but weirder things have happened. Perhaps they were spent during
someone's hard times, when that person could not afford to keep them
out of circulation.

And in any event, the last run of Peace dollars was struck in 1964 --
but that's another story entirely!

>> > You're the randee w f who just told nyc.transit that (a) you remember
>> > big money (pre-1937 bills) and (b) you acquired dollar coins that went
>> > out of use earlier than that for $1 apiece!

"Big money" is pre 1928, not 1937. And you could get them and
certainly the silver dollars for a buck a piece in those days.

Padraic.

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