Just finished a 7 page file of some basic information on aluminum-bronze coins. I did this because I found such information was not easy to locate, and that it was spread out all over the Internet. I hope the file is useful: aluminum-bronze coins are one of the best coinage metals known! Like the ancient tin-bronzes, they will last and last. However, they come in many flavors! The link takes you to the document, you can view, download, and or print. Enjoy!! www.Biblical-data.org/MY_aluminum_bronze.pdf One may need to copy and paste the link into your browser address bar, if it is not clickable.
I used to spell it "aluminium" (as instructed by the school system in Orange County, CA) until I began working office jobs in Los Angeles in which I was ridiculed to no end for adding that extra "i". Years later, I remembered that I used to include the "u" in favorite, color and honor. What happened? Also, no one says "gesundheit" anymore or even knows what it means. I still spell "mein" instead of "mine" though. Anyways, great write-up. I have read it several times since it was posted.
In research for the article, I noticed many sites spelling aluminum as "aluminium". I suspect it is British English, as is colour. Also: for harbor "harbour", for civilized "civilised", for favor "favour", for realize "realise", for recognize "recognise", for neighbor "neighbour" et cetera et cetera. "gesundheit" is of course German for your "health", usually invoked after a nice sneeze. I still use it, and I was raised in some mountains in S. California, and I have some German ancestory. So I suspect Mr. "Blond" that you may have English or German heritage? Glad you appreciated my effort, I hope it may prove useful to you. Thank you!
This might be an interesting coin to talk about since it is related. Note that this is not an aluminum bronze coin but it is an aluminum-copper alloy coin. From the color, it does look very similar to what an aluminum bronze coin would look like. Alloy is supposedly 95% copper, 5% aluminum. Struck in 1892 and released to the public in 1894, this is one particular coinage that didn't last too long in circulation as the last coin struck was in 1896. Main reason being is that the public had no confidence of the new coinage type due to years of corruption and they believed they were being ripped off with a brass like color coin. Prior to machine struck coinage coins, the Korean mints were known to melt down good quality copper coins and made cast alloy coins of bronze and iron alloy, which made them rich but caused a major uproar with the public. While this particular coinage was struck in Korea, the equipment was imported from Japan and it is assumed that the planchets were imported from Japan as well. What is odd is that while the 5 fun coins were the same composition as a Japanese 1 sen coin, the 1 fun coin is not the same as the Japanese 1/2 sen coin despite having the same diameter. It is assumed that the Japanese decided supply an inferior alloy to Korea. I am not aware if there are any earlier examples of such coins and would be interested to know if there is any.
I did forget to mention that the biggest user of aluminum bronze coins may have been the Soviet Union. Taking for instance the 1 to 5 kopek coins, these were struck from 1926 to 1991. The alloy may have been alunimum-bronze or brass but it is of similar composition. Would be interested to know more. To add to this as well, it is still common to see Australian dollar coins dated 1984 and they are still in reasonable condition.
