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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;alurid, post: 2648622, member: 81991&quot;]At the end of 1943 when the U.S. mint decided to return to making 1¢ coins out of copper, they still had some zinc coated steel planchets left over. </p><p>A decision was made to use them to mint a 2 Franc coin for Belgium, </p><p>25,000,000 of them as stated on Numista. I have not found any logistics / articles about this,&nbsp; so if any one has I would be interested in knowing more on this.&nbsp; I recently was fortunate to find one in uncirculated condition, and they are quite a simply coin.[ATTACH=full]585496[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]585497[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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