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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cesariojpn, post: 333164, member: 11408&quot;]<font size="2">Got these two jokers in my change from the PO Vending machine today. The </font><font size="2">Philippine 5 Piso. </font>Don&#039;t think I can get my money back from the Post Office, because they were CLOSED!! Plus they can claim that i&#039;m trying to scam them seeing that the incident happened on Saturday and they were closed (FYI, they close at 12PM, and I used the machine at 4PM.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A little research on Wikipedia finds the Sac/Prez Dollars are 88.5% <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" rel="nofollow">Cu</a>, 6% <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc" rel="nofollow">Zn</a>, 3.5% <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese" rel="nofollow">Mn,</a> 2% <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" rel="nofollow">Ni</a>, 8.1g, and 26.5mm, while the 5 Piso is 70% Cu, 5.5% <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" rel="nofollow">Ni,</a> 24.5% Zn, 7.7 g, and 27mm. Not too much of a diameter tolerance, weight is big difference, but metallic/magnetic signature wise...I dunno. Plus a 88 cent difference in currency exchange rates.</p><p><br /></p><p>So am I right in believing this could be a possibly big problem in the future if the local Filipinas manage to grab enough 5 Piso coins from the motherland and co-opt machines that can accept dollar coins??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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