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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 153558, member: 68&quot;]Most mixed metals like this are used as alloy or &quot;chill scrap&quot; in the production of other metals. </p><p>Steel shops for instance will get in crates of Lebanese nickel Piastres and these will simply be</p><p>dumped in the furnace to create stainless steel.&nbsp; There are numerous stainless alloys that ac-</p><p>tiually use copper/ nickel in a 3:1 ratio so could just use nickels straight without other sources </p><p>for these two metal.&nbsp; When heats are tapped they are adjusted for content and stirred. Often</p><p>they&#039;ll be to hot and cold scrap of similar material will be tossed in to achieve proper temperature.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the billions of modern coins minted in the last half of the 20th century are already In-</p><p>dian surgical equipment or Chinese refrigerators.&nbsp; All through the 1980&#039;s there was a ship that</p><p>sailed between South America and Japan taking their modern coins off for destruction.&nbsp; It has</p><p>already happened in one country after another.&nbsp; It&#039;s ironic that so many coins minted in so ma-</p><p>ny millions are now tough to find.&nbsp; These coins were so unloved that they weren&#039;t saved in unc</p><p>and now some are quite scarce in high grades because they weren&#039;t saved and then they were</p><p>all melted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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