coin silver
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The suffragist Susan B. Anthony was the first woman to be featured on a circulating U.S. coin; silver dollars with her image were first released in 1979.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
If Congress agrees, the entire 1.7 billion ounces of silver now held as paper currency backing can be used for coins, giving the Treasury enough coin silver for the next 35 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the time when this law was enacted it had not for many years been profitable to coin silver bullion into dollars because silver was undervalued at the established ratio of sixteen to one.
From The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics by Buck, Solon J. (Solon Justus)
Gold pieces were principally coined, and in proportion as gold was coined it became more and more difficult to coin silver.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
The Government has commenced to coin silver and has partially remonetized it.
From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll
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