Yes. The clad sandwich was chosen because it was compatible with existing vending machines.
My gut feeling is genuine, formerly soldered into jewelry.
Actually, on the cu-ni clad dimes, quarters and halves, the net nickel content is 8.333% of the total weight. The proportions of the clad layers...
Chinese fake
Many years ago out of curiosity I weighs a bunch of "slick" Barber dimes, quarters and halves and Morgan dollars, and the average weight loss was...
Never heard of this issue.
Somewhere around the year 2000 the CTA switched to readable passes and stopped taking tokens, though for a while the busses continued to take...
When I started working in Chicago the CTA issued a small copper-nickel token that worked in both the bus fare boxes and the subway turnstiles....
Half dollars did circulate up until the Kennedy half killed the denomination due to hoarding. In my old neighborhood there was a "steak and egger"...
When the small dollar concept that was eventually issued as the Anthony dollar was being developed in the 1970's, Treasury wanted it to be popular...
The vending machine industry KILLED a denomination, the copper-nickel three cent piece. When pay phones came out in the 1880's, they took a dime,...
Bangle for a very poor belly dancer.
Thanks! How's that for a memory for a book I have not seen in over 40 years!
I vaguely remember this die variety from an old guide book on die varieties published by Frank Spadone in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Don't...
What is the CoinTalk equivalent of a Collectors Universe "YOU SUCK!"?
Who dated a lady from Dacia....
So, a modern (1986) copper advertising piece for some sort of mutual fund based upon currencies, floated by a British insurance company with one...
My first thought.
Yep! Congratulations. A friendly suggestion. When possible, take coins out of holders before photographing them.
It would be logical if mutilated clad coins returned to the Mint via the banking industry were sold to the manufacturers of the clad strip to be...
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