Dollar Devaluation in the 1950s and 1960s (HOM 35-B)
History of Money, Lecture 35, Pt. B: overview of the steady dilution in the purchasing power of the US dollar after 1950, including the Coinage Act of 1965, which removed the silver from the dime and quarter and reduced the silver content in the half dollar (removed altogether in 1970).
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