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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2081495, member: 27832&quot;]Just came across this on Coinflation:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://news.coinupdate.com/reintroduced-bill-seeks-steel-cents-nickels-dimes-and-quarters-4674/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.coinupdate.com/reintroduced-bill-seeks-steel-cents-nickels-dimes-and-quarters-4674/" rel="nofollow">http://news.coinupdate.com/reintroduced-bill-seeks-steel-cents-nickels-dimes-and-quarters-4674/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>...but the fine print taketh away, most likely:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That looks like three strikes to me:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Nearly any coin-acceptance mechanism would require multiple changes to adjust to new weights, new electromagnetic signatures, and, oh, yeah, the fact that all those simple magnetic traps would need to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Making slugs out of steel has to be easier than making slugs that will pass a current coin-acceptance mechanism. If the acceptors are supposed to distinguish real coins from a steel slug of the right thickness, diameter, and weight, I&#039;m guessing that they&#039;ll need something a lot more sophisticated than the current mechanisms.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) Oh, yeah, and if they need to accept both old and new coins, that makes point (1) above even more challenging.</p><p><br /></p><p>So now I&#039;m trying to figure out what this guy&#039;s angle is for introducing a bill that&#039;s apparently designed to be dead-on-arrival. But I guess that would be verging into politics, and it&#039;s not that interesting anyhow...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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