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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CheetahCats, post: 889640, member: 23874&quot;]<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/05/obamas-plan-to-downgrade-nickel-faces-protest-from-laudromat-owners-should-us-mint-stop-making-pennies.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/05/obamas-plan-to-downgrade-nickel-faces-protest-from-laudromat-owners-should-us-mint-stop-making-pennies.html" rel="nofollow">Obama&#039;s Plan to Downgrade Faces Protest from Laundromat Owners.&nbsp; Should U.S. Drop the Penny?</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting, the article states that there exists speculation about creating a Nickel made of porcelain and embedded with an ID chip.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having done a lot of feasibility studies with respect to ID chips in the work that I do, this definitely concerns me. Cost isn&#039;t one, if what they are recommending involves RFID, as the cost for each chip is much cheaper than a nickel each. </p><p><br /></p><p>Counterfeiting?&nbsp; Yes, certainly it could be a deterrent.&nbsp; That said, serious privacy issues are potentially at stake.</p><p><br /></p><p>CheetahCats[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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