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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8248877, member: 66&quot;]Because the vending machines are designed to accept that alloy composition and weight.&nbsp; And people are conditioned to see the nickel as that color.&nbsp; It has been that color/composition for almost 150 years.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You could, but once again all the vending machines will reject them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually the government is going to have to bite the bullet go ahead and change compositions and tell the vending machine industry &quot;you&#039;re just going to have to go ahead and change all the coin mechanisms in your machines!&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Won&#039;t hurt, but won&#039;t help either.&nbsp; It&#039;s been done several times in the past and has never really worked.&nbsp; Even at the start of WWII in 1942 when they appealed to peoples patriotism to bring their cents back to the banks so the mint could could reduced copper usage it didn&#039;t work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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