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coin silver

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noun

  1. silver having the standard fineness for coinage purposes.


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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

This bill simply directs that the Secretary of the Treasury shall purchase this bullion and shall coin silver coin and substitute that in the place of fractional currency.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

These official medals are of four kinds: small gilt at $1; large bronze at $2; coin silver at $3; large gilt at $5, or all inclosed in one case at $11.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

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

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