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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2991572, member: 59677&quot;]And all in a relatively tight time frame, a decade...</p><p><br /></p><p>1857-1858 Flying Eagle Cent - 88% Copper, 12% Nickel - 4.67g</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>&quot;Snowden didn’t choose this mix at random. He was being lobbied heavily by Joseph Wharton (and his monopoly of nickel mines) to use an alloy including this Nickel&quot; [PCGS Coin Facts]</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>1859 Type 1 Indian Head Cent - 88% Copper, 12% Nickel - 4.70g</p><p>1860-1864 Type 2 Indian Head Cent - 88% Copper, 12% Nickel - 4.70g</p><p><br /></p><p>1865 3 Cent Nickel - 75% Copper, 25% Nickel - 1.94g</p><p><br /></p><p>1866.. date - Various designs - - 75% Copper, 25% Nickel - 5.00g</p><p>[PCGS Coin Facts erroneously calls the 1866 1.94g - reported]</p><p><br /></p><p>Who was Joseph Wharton... you might have heard of the Wharton School? That guy... <i><a href="https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about-wharton/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about-wharton/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about-wharton/</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p>He&#039;s a member of the National Mining Hall of Fame (who knew there was such)</p><blockquote><p><i><a href="https://mininghalloffame.org/inductee/wharton" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://mininghalloffame.org/inductee/wharton" rel="nofollow">https://mininghalloffame.org/inductee/wharton</a></i></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>According to the Mining HoF, he led the first successful producer of Zinc metal in the US. In 1863, he sold that company to fund development of a closed nickel mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rest is history![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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