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<p>[QUOTE="harrync, post: 4755398, member: 58588"]I wonder if the opening of the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah in 1906 had anything to do with the decision to start making cents and nickels in SF? There was now a convenient source of copper for the SF mint, and remember, not only was the cent mostly copper, the "nickel" was 75% copper. And by 1910 the population of the Pacific and Mountain states was nearly 7 million; that is, one and a half times the population of the whole US at the time the Philadelphia mint opened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="harrync, post: 4755398, member: 58588"]I wonder if the opening of the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah in 1906 had anything to do with the decision to start making cents and nickels in SF? There was now a convenient source of copper for the SF mint, and remember, not only was the cent mostly copper, the "nickel" was 75% copper. And by 1910 the population of the Pacific and Mountain states was nearly 7 million; that is, one and a half times the population of the whole US at the time the Philadelphia mint opened.[/QUOTE]
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