Anyone holding a pre-1965 U.S. quarter or dime owns a coin whose silver content alone exceeds its stamped denomination by a wide margin. On July 23, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Coinage ...
On July 23, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Coinage Act of 1965 into law, essentially ending silver's 170-year run as the coin of the realm. It was supposed to be the end. No more shiny ...