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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26296996, member: 101855&quot;]The Philadelphia Mint employees hated working with nickel. They nicknamed it &quot;The devil&#039;s copper.&quot; It had higher melting point than the other coinage metals, and it was hard and tough on dies. You see many die breaks and other manufacturing problems on Shield Nickels and the Nickel Three Cent Pieces. </p><p><br /></p><p>The workers thought they had caught a break when the mint switched the cent from the copper-nickel to bronze cents. The Joseph Warton, who owned a nickel producing operation, and who had a lot of clout in Congress, got the bills passed for the Three Cent Nickel and the Nickel five cent piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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