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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8235697, member: 105098&quot;]Actually I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s necessarily cheaper, but save the mint money, but the FAST Act, signed into law in December 2015 specified that everything had to be “not less than 90 percent silver,” </p><p><br /></p><p>they did a quality and costs analysis, they determined:</p><p>1. they could strike 600 coins with 90% blanks with a die pair, but 1800 coins with a die pair using .999 blanks.</p><p>2. Downtime for cleaning: 80x a day using the 90% blanks, 20x a day using .999 blanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>and there were slightly less scrap (haze related) and slightly less customer returns with .999 blanks</p><p><br /></p><p>also to consider not many places use the 90% around the world, so it&#039;s a special order for the right composition vs, the same .999 everyone else uses. </p><p><br /></p><p>Prices certainly didn&#039;t go down since the change though. </p><p>I think it&#039;s more about the cost savings from less down time and longer die life than anything else. the FAST Act pretty much put to and end 40% halves or 35% nickels from being done again also, unless specifically legislated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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