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<p>[QUOTE="SchwaVB57, post: 3234802, member: 84518"]Wasn't his formula called German Silver? Congress did approve a variation of his formula for the Flying Eagle and Indian Cents for the first few years. I read somewhere that the Mint Director at the time did not want US coins minted with a metal named for a foreign country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SchwaVB57, post: 3234802, member: 84518"]Wasn't his formula called German Silver? Congress did approve a variation of his formula for the Flying Eagle and Indian Cents for the first few years. I read somewhere that the Mint Director at the time did not want US coins minted with a metal named for a foreign country.[/QUOTE]
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