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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1824281, member: 66&quot;]Those figures are not the cost of production, they are the metal values.&nbsp; When cost of production is included the nickel cost 11 cents and the dime costs close to 6 cents so a half dime in coppernickel clad would be between 4 and 4.5 cents.&nbsp; Yes profitable, but for how long? And have you tried actually handling half dimes as a spendable coin?&nbsp; Believe me you don&#039;t want to.&nbsp; (Might help people save though since NO ONE will want to handle them.&nbsp; They will all get tossed into a jar every night when people get home just to get them out of their pockets.</p><p><br /></p><p>And frankly I would double those purchasing power values from 1913 to 2013.&nbsp; The CPI index they use in those inflation calculators have been severely manipulated in order to understate inflation[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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