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coin silver

American  

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

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

They here rummaged some drawers and boxes, but discovered only a few papers, of no importance, and some good coin, silver and gold.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan