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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cringely, post: 1424206, member: 22271&quot;]At least the Chicago Tribune article eventually mentioned the reason for the silver plug was to increase the value of the metal content.</p><p>Every other article I&#039;ve seen (including the press release quoting the head of the auction house (Heritage) who should have know better) just stated that the silver plug was to increase weight. The silver plug wasn&#039;t added to increase weight (since the density of sliver and copper aren&#039;t that much different)), but was aded to increase the value of the metal in the coins. In 1792, one cent of pure copper would have required a 1¢ coin to be about the size of a silver dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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