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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 130777, member: 1101&quot;]You&#039;re not wrong necessarily, but there are factors other than pure economics of cost vs. value of production.&nbsp; Too many people from copper and zinc miners to union truck drivers to various trade associations for special interests that you could not even imagine existed, would all scream.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why do you think we have a dollar coin? It was all the work of special interests who would profit from it.&nbsp; Why do we have Silver Eagles and Silver Proof sets?&nbsp; It&#039;s not because coin collectors wanted them (although they do, of course) - it was lobbyists for the silver industry who made it happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now....if the choice was to make pennies from aluminum then maybe we&#039;d have a rumble on our hands as the aluminum industry got involved, and maybe they&#039;d win.&nbsp; But, aluminum is not as cheap as it once was, either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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