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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1414154, member: 66&quot;]I think nickel is a definite possibility.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Try 1827, but the process was expensive.&nbsp; Better processes existed by 1846.&nbsp; Pattern coins began in aluminum were first made at the Mint in 1866.&nbsp; They toyed with the idea of aluminum coins in the 1870&#039;s for redemption of fractional currency.&nbsp; In 1884 the Washington Monument was finished with a 100 oz pyramid capstone of pure aluminum, the largest piece of aluminum in existence at the time.&nbsp; In 1885 at least four complete proof sets, cent through double eagle, were struck in aluminum.&nbsp; In 1886 the Hall-Héroult electrolytic process for producing aluminum was developed and it went into commercial production in 1889 resulting in the rapid reduction in the price of aluminum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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