cleaned yesterdays old silver

[lazyaussie]

here"s a pic of the cleaned coins.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

That's a great cleaning job. Did you use lemon juice?
Mick Evans.

 

[lazyaussie]

yep works a treat on 50%ers

 

[cwilk]

Obviously different from the UK and Canada. Nice silver sixpence!

Chris

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Thanks.
Chris. All silver coins prior to 1945 are full silver. Those after this date are all 50% silver.
Mick Evans.

 

[cwilk]

When did it stop? The UK stopped real early 1947 if memory serves. They switched from sterling to 50 percent early too around 1921. I have it written down in a notebook someplace with Canadian dates. Might as well add Australia to my information. If I find a silver Aussie coin I'm gonna faint, though.

Chris

 

[lazyaussie]

Chris Australia first made it"s own silver coins in 1910 they were 925% then in 1945 they changed to 50% they stopped making silver coins for every day use in 1966. the last silver coin for general use was a 50c coin it was 925 silver & only made for one year at the change over from pre decimal to decimal coins witch are copper/nickel.
hope this helps
lazyaussie

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah it really sucked when the governments in cahoots with the Central Banks took away our right to own real money but then that's how they can control the money supply, the citizen's worth, and manipulate the economy.

Bill

 

[cwilk]

Now I have to go find some!

Chris

 

[lazyaussie]

go for it Chris some our coins were minted over there & a lot of US soldier's came over here in ww2 & took some home as momentous so i"d say you"v got a good chance if you hit a lot of 1940s places.