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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cvicisso, post: 1358960, member: 29382&quot;]I don&#039;t have any evidence to disprove this theory - but I don&#039;t see how my sorter could be weighing anything.&nbsp; As fast as they zip through there - and they never &#039;pause&#039; - how could they be weighed?&nbsp; Could it possibly be that the IHs being lumped in with the zincs are pre-1865, when they had a different composition?&nbsp; I copy/pasted this from Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">The coins struck between 1859 and 1864 contained 88% </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" rel="nofollow">copper</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> and 12% </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" rel="nofollow">nickel</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">. During this time, prior to the issuance of the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(United_States_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_(United_States_coin)" rel="nofollow">Five-Cent nickel</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> coin, the cent was commonly referred to as a &quot;Nickel&quot; or &quot;Nick,&quot; for short. Due to the hoarding of all coinage during the Civil War, the nickel cents disappeared from daily use and were replaced in many</font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" rel="nofollow">Northern</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> cities by </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war_tokens" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war_tokens" rel="nofollow">private tokens</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">. The success of these copper tokens prompted the change of the cent to a similar metal. In 1864, the alloy changed to </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" rel="nofollow">Bronze</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> (95% </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" rel="nofollow">copper</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">and 5% </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin" rel="nofollow">tin</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> and </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc" rel="nofollow">zinc</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">), and the weight of the coins was reduced from 72 </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(measure)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(measure)" rel="nofollow">grains</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> to 48 grains. This weight continued for copper-alloy U.S. cents until the 1982 introduction of the current copper-plated zinc cent.</font></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"></font></span></i><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">I&#039;m just guessing.&nbsp; Any other thoughts?</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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