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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1727516, member: 12789&quot;]The actual reason cited was that it was confused for a dime - which I myself have found as I did find one in a dime roll just a couple of weeks ago.&nbsp; They were unpopular from the moment they entered circulation, even with a war going on and lots of other sacrifices the public wasn&#039;t willing to tolerate a coin being coloured like a dime but worth a tenth as much.&nbsp; There was even a mini cent shortage going on in 1943 - increased demand because of so much more business especially centered around war production.&nbsp; Then the decision was made to go back to the bronze cent in 1944, and feed the public the notion that soldiers were having to save their scrap shell casings etc to send back to the United States for minting into cents.&nbsp; The public ate it up - but years later the story was determined to be largely farcical.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the war nickels the reason the large mintmarks were placed on the reverse above Monticello was so that the coins could be called, probably after the conclusion of the war, for the recovery of the silver - but in reality it never happened and you can still very occasionally find them in circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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