Happy 4th of July Steemians!

Today is America's birthday, and my is she getting old. So, on this day I thought I would show you something America used to stand for: a strong currency, backed by precious metals.

U.S. coins used to have silver in them! Imagine that! Dollars, Half-Dollars, quarters and dimes all had 90% silver until 1965. Now, the U.S. ended 90% silver and went "clad" in 1965 save for Kennedy Half Dollars which went 40% silver from 1965-1970, I believe 1964 was the only year that Kennedy Half Dollars had 90% silver.

Now the only thing the U.S. dollar is backed by is the belief that it's worth something! Nice little trick they did there, you see?

Anyway, I have a nice little collection of pre-1965 quarters I'd like to share with you today.

I Keep Them Here (bag of what used to be rice)

There they are, all 1000 of them. They are really fun to roll in and move my hands through. They make a neat clinky noise, nothing like what our shit quarters sound like today.

I even took the time to do this!

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Here's a video I made on my YouTube channel showing these bad boys off along with my whole stack. Skip to 2:23 in the video to hear some real clinkage!

It took me quite a lot of trips to the ol' LCS to arrive at the number 1,000. Lots of days of hard work paid for these. This represents real wealth to me. Not the paper you pay for your donuts with. This is true wealth my friends.

As @raybrockman would say, "Stack on, my friends." Also have a great 4th everyone, please don't blow your arms off with fireworks like some jackasses in years past.

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