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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 26070213, member: 77814&quot;]Ever several years the Treasury goes through an exercise of &quot;Alternative metals&quot; for their coins.&nbsp; I&#039;ll have rummage up the document but they&#039;ve go through different metals, their exposure to the environment, changes to systems (like vending machines) that identify coinage, changes to dies, stamping issues, recycling the initial web scrap (round disc from the sheet metal) etc.&nbsp; There are other external systems that deal with coinage that would all have to be changed to accept a new base material for coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit: I think this is the latest report</p><p><a href="https://www.usmint.gov/content/dam/usmint/reports/2022-USM-Biennial-Report_P5_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usmint.gov/content/dam/usmint/reports/2022-USM-Biennial-Report_P5_FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">2022 Biennial Report to Congress as Required by the Coin Modernization, Oversight, and Continuity Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-302)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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