Sipver creating an account, you are agreeing to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. In this article we will review both the issuance and disappearance of circulating silver coins throughout North America maikng the United States, Canada, and Mexico. But what year did they stop making silver moneysome silver coin shortages began to cause the Federal Reserve to ration coin allocations to its member banks. Now, all of you dhat these changes are necessary for a very simple reason—silver is a scarce material. Our uses of silver are growing as our population and our economy grows. The hard fact is that silver consumption is now more than double new silver production each year. So, in makiing face of this worldwide shortage of silver, and our rapidly growing need for coins, the only really prudent course was to reduce our dependence upon silver for making our coins. If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and mnoey can b...