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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4957912, member: 66"]The first coin payphone wasn't introduced until 1889 and the three cent piece was already on its way out or gone by then. That was for a phone where you made your call and then paid. The first ones where you paid and that allowed you to make your call were introduced in 1898 almost ten years after the three cent piece was discontinued. Payphones in the 1880's where cases where you paid an operator in person and were then allowed to use the phone.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was an anti-counterfeiting measure. making up a 75% copper 25% nickel alloy was fairly easy, but the explosive bonding process needed to create the clad material was thought to be beyond the ability of your typical counterfeiter.</p><p><br /></p><p>And as I remember from back then, most vending machines DIDN'T take both types of coins. In my experience they would take one or the other but not both. If they did take both, you could get them to take most anything. But the silver left circulation quickly and venders just had to have the machine set to take the clad coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4957912, member: 66"]The first coin payphone wasn't introduced until 1889 and the three cent piece was already on its way out or gone by then. That was for a phone where you made your call and then paid. The first ones where you paid and that allowed you to make your call were introduced in 1898 almost ten years after the three cent piece was discontinued. Payphones in the 1880's where cases where you paid an operator in person and were then allowed to use the phone. It was an anti-counterfeiting measure. making up a 75% copper 25% nickel alloy was fairly easy, but the explosive bonding process needed to create the clad material was thought to be beyond the ability of your typical counterfeiter. And as I remember from back then, most vending machines DIDN'T take both types of coins. In my experience they would take one or the other but not both. If they did take both, you could get them to take most anything. But the silver left circulation quickly and venders just had to have the machine set to take the clad coins.[/QUOTE]
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