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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;harley bissell, post: 2993714, member: 88212&quot;]Prior to the late 1800s aluminum was a precious metal. It was so expensive that</p><p>the czarist Russia government recalled all of their platinum coins and replaced</p><p>them with the more expensive aluminum. When the Bessemer process using electricity was developed aluminum prices plummeted due to the easy of mining</p><p>this previously precious metal. By 1901 people were still thinking that aluminum was valuable so the encased 1901 indian cents in aluminum were a big hit at the worlds fairs and expositions. If memory serves they were sold for a nickel and were the cheapest souvenir available so they were hauled back to the folks back home. Today they are still the cheapest encased indian cents because so many of them were made and saved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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