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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 109080, member: 68&quot;]&quot;A Nickel is a waste and the mint has made 1,000,000,000&#039;s of them. And the same is largely true of the rest of the modern coins. These are cold, ugly, hard alloy coins. These coins are hated. They are cheap. They are designed to be cheap. And there are billions of them.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact remains that in 1964 a quarter would buy a candy bar and a Coke from a vending machine and a nickel in change.&nbsp; In 1965 a clad quarter would buy the same products and return the same change.&nbsp; The only difference between the two quarters is that one was made of a metal that could no longer circulate because its value was climbing and the other was made of a more durable and cheaper composition.&nbsp; One of these metals had been in use for 2400 years and the other was high tech had been workable for only about a hundred years.&nbsp; Combined they were one of the most high tech compositions ever made for coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It might be interesting to note that the silver coins no longer even work in vending machines and if you want a coke you&#039;ll need good clad.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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