What is your country's last circulating silver coin?

The last American circulating silver coin was the 1969 D Kennedy half dollar, 40% silver:



There was a 40% silver 1/2 dollar coined in 1970, but it is found only in collector sets.

The last circulating silver in Germany was the 5 German Mark until 1975 in the west and 2 & 5 Reichsmark until 1945 in the east. But you sometimes could find commemorative 10 Mark coins in circulation but I don't think you mean something like that.

Australia's last circulating silver coin was the 1966 round 50 Cent coin. After first being introduced into circulation in 1966 the price of silver quickly went up to a point where the metal value of the sliver was worth way more than $0.50. So as a result all were withdrawn from circulation and the composition changed to copper-nickle for the 12 sided coin that replaced it.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6761.html

Cita: "frankhammer"​There was a 40% silver 1/2 dollar coined in 1970, but it is found only in collector sets.
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​that would explain why I have found dozens of each year, but never a 70.
This is the best coin for still finding around. I have gotten many from the bank, the girls know about the 90% but not these. Even got a bunch at a coin shop once.

The last ones issued for circulation where 100 pesos coins, there is two types for each state of México (32 states=64 coins in total) the first type have the coat of arms of each state (issued from 2003 to 2005) and the second type has the image of a representative place of each state (issued in 2007) in his days and until today people (that dont now about numismatics) dont like them and toss them away or change them in the bank, but Banco de México is now melting them! so i am trying to save them, they are found in circulation yet

They were minted from 2003 to 2007

They have 1/2 ounce of sterling silver (.925)

Example of first and secong type for Jalisco

There are other silvers in circulation, but they are a little bit older, 10, 20 and 50 nuevos pesos minted from 1992 to 1995, they are way much rarer than the 100 pesos coins, because more people where aware of their silver content, but if its your lucky day you'll maybe find one in your change (10 nuevos pesos is the most likely to find, 20 nuevos pesos in banks, but 50 nuevos pesos its nearly impossible)


10 Nuevos pesos (.925 silver center)


20 Nuevos pesos (.925 silver center)


50 Nuevos pesos (1/2 ounce of .925 silver)

Mexico is maybe the last country to produce silver for circulation, just today Banco de México told in a conference that coinage desing will be changed in 2018, so this coins are going expensive in some years, it stills a mystery for me how México been the biggest silver producer since 1600's, has to sell and control his own silver as the enterprises and the economists say? mad world

Almost 100 years ago for Denmark:

10 øre 1919


25 øre 1919

New Zealand's was the 1949 royal visit crown. I'm not sure if they were intended to circulate or not, but they did because you can find plenty in VF and lower condition

In Finland 0.350 silver 1 Markka coinswere minted until 1968. They were introduced in 1963 after the redenomination of 100:1 to the old Markka, which had devalued heavily during both World Wars. Before that 0.500 silver 100 & 200 Markka coins had circulated after decades of not using silver at all since 1917.

1 Markka 1963-8:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1528.html

100 Markkaa 1956-60:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11011.html

200 Markkaa 1956-59:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11012.html

Last Romanian silver circulating coin was : 100000 lei 1946
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4613.html

Last Hungarian silvers were:

200 forint 1993:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10042.html

and 200 forint 1994:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6505.html

They were withdrawn from circulation in 1998.

Historical background for these "late" silver coins:
Before they were introduced, the last circulating silver of Hungary was minted in 1947. Just imagine, just 2 years after WWII, it was made of silver in order to advertise the strenght of the new corrency, the Forint which replaced the Pengő (one of the largest hyperinflation in history happened here in Hungary, 1 forint was equal with 400000000000000000000000000000 pengő -29 zeros). This coin was introduced by the Republic of Hungary, so it showed the strength of the new republic as well. Unfortunatelly, in a few years the communists came to power (backed by the occupying Soviet forces), renaming the country to People's Republic of Hungary.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6939.html

In 1989, after the change of the regime, Hungary became a republic again. It took some time for the new republic to stop the inflation of the forint caused by the bad fiscal politics of the past communist regime, and finally in 1992, the government introduced those 200 forint silver coins - with the same parameters as the 5 forint in 1947 (12 g, 0.500 Ag). Because of their silver content, they were hoarded by the Hungarians, and soon their silver content worth more than their face value- so the last silver coins of Hungary were withdrawn from circulation in 1998.

Canada was 1968.

10 Cent
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces39248.html
Mintage was 70,460,000. Also produced in 100% nickel by both the RCM (87,412,930) and US Philadelphia Mint (85,170,000).

25 Cent
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces366.html
Mintage was 71,464,000 silver and 88,686,428 nickel.

India I believe would have been the 1972 Rs10 25th anniversary of Independence. While that coin did circulate, it was not very widely used. It was massive and for a lot of people too much money in a coin. It was one of the reasons why it took so long for the Rs10 coin to resurface again as late as 2008

In Thailand, It would be 1 Baht 2500 (1957) but they are only 3% silver in composition.

If they are not counted as silver coins, it would be 20 Satang 2485 (1942), which are 65% Silver.

I assume that the Soviet Union counts as (an earlier version of) my country. (There were, to the best of my knowledge, no circulating silver coins of the Russian Federation.)
In this case, my country's last circulating silver coin was the old-style 20 kopek 1931.

Don't go around looking for it in your collection, though; the mintage figure listed on the Numista page for the type is very misleading - almost the entire mintage was melted when silver coinage production stopped in 1931. (Even the comment "rare" is misleading - it should be "extremely rare" or something similar.)
A few examples were saved for government collections, and apparently a few more escaped into circulation; today a non-counterfeit example sells for thousands of dollars (if not more).

[EDIT: To clarify, the above only applies to the 1931 coins; the earlier dates are fairly common.]

The Netherlands stopped minting .720 silver guilders in 1967 and rijksdaalders (2 1/2G) in 1966. A nickel guilder was introduced in 1967 and a nickel rijksdaalder in 1969. The new rijksdaalder was smaller in size, and the large silver ones were soon withdrawn from circulation. The guilder remained the same in size, and silver guilders would show up in circulation up to the early 90-ies.

From 1970 on, silver commemorative 10G and 50G were issued, and although legal tender and sporadically encoutered in cash registers, these were not intended for circulation.

In Spain 100 pesetas until 1970 was silver (.800)
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1885.html

As far as I am aware, the last silver coins minted for circulation in the UK were the sixpence, shilling (both types), florin and half crown of 1946.
All circulation coins from 1947 contained no silver.