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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 560045, member: 5233"]Well, it makes sense. If you look at the coins that the 3rd Reich produced...they started out with copper, silver, with some aluminum and nickel. But, by about 1940...the copper, silver and nickel were all gone. The majority of the new coins being minted were zinc or aluminum. I'd imagine coins from just a few years earlier were being melted for their base metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The trend from more to less precious metals in such a short period of time is one of the many reasons I find Nazi coins so interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 560045, member: 5233"]Well, it makes sense. If you look at the coins that the 3rd Reich produced...they started out with copper, silver, with some aluminum and nickel. But, by about 1940...the copper, silver and nickel were all gone. The majority of the new coins being minted were zinc or aluminum. I'd imagine coins from just a few years earlier were being melted for their base metals. The trend from more to less precious metals in such a short period of time is one of the many reasons I find Nazi coins so interesting.[/QUOTE]
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