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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 639975, member: 66&quot;]But in most cases the coins had been demonetized&nbsp; or the change in the monetary system had pretty much wiped out the face value of the coins.&nbsp; So they didn&#039;t have to worry about the resulting metal being worth less than the coins.&nbsp; Unlike most countries, all our coins are still legal tender at their full face value and until recently melting down of the base metal coins would have resulted in a loss with the metal being worth less than the face value of the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But this was profitable since they could make more coins from the silver than the number of pieces melted.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For the most part this was also profitible since the copper from one large cent would make three small bronze cents.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And that was mostly politics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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