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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7727256, member: 66&quot;]The committee that has been studing materials for the past ten years trying to find a replacement material for the cent and five cent have repeatedly considered a stainless steel composition.&nbsp; And they keep coming to the conclusion that the material is too hard and doesn&#039;t strike up sufficiently.&nbsp; (Then after making their biannual report they go back and test it again.&nbsp; It didn&#039;t work last time, maybe it will work this time.)&nbsp; They also have the problem that some of the tested alloys are magnetic which would require changing all the coin mechanisms which make them a hard NO, because they want a material that can be seamlessly be introduced along with the existing coins that won&#039;t require major adjustments to existing infrastructure.&nbsp; Considering SS coins of the same size would be almost 20% lighter that pretty much makes them a non-starter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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