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So in a previous thread I mentioned I just got the book American Default by Sebastian Edwards. It's about FDR ending the gold standard domesticly. In it he has a timeline of events. There are two events that are relevant to silver.
> the Thomas Amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act
>presidential proclamation 2067
The Thomas Amendment gives the president authority to remonetize silver at a 16:1 ratio to gold. The proclamation 2067 has the US Mint buy up silver similar to the Pittman Act that created the Peace Dollars. I looked in my numismatic book and sure enough, between 1929 and 1933 there were no Peace Dollars minted. Both of these items were done to intentionally be inflationary. Otherwise I'm having a hard time coming up with much info or commentary on either item.
Pic related is apparently why the mint stopped producing silver dollars.
