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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptHenway, post: 4954699, member: 13813&quot;]The vending machine industry KILLED a denomination, the copper-nickel three cent piece. When pay phones came out in the 1880&#039;s, they took a dime, which was a lot of money in those days. The three cent piece was the same size, and close enough in weight to pass as a dime in the primitive coin rejection mechanisms of the day. </p><p><br /></p><p>The pay phone operators screamed, and demanded that the U.S. Treasury give them one dime for every three cent piece they had been stuck with. The Treasury told them where to go, but eventually stopped making them and stopped re-issuing any that came in to the Sub-Treasuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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