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What was the reaction to the government adding Sliver as a standard in 1890?

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Yes. The Philadelphia mint produced 16,802,590 dollars in 1890
with no mint mark.
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Free silver was a major economic policy issue in late 19th-century America. Its advocates were in favor of an expansionary monetary policy featuring the unlimited coinage of silver into money on-demand, as opposed to strict adherence to the more carefully fixed money supply implicit in the gold standard

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