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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1624425, member: 12789&quot;]During that time right after the war the US mint was messing around with lots of patterns, but one idea that came up as a solution to the silver dime problem was to make a cupro-nickel ten cent coin to replace the dime along the lines of what happened with the nickel replacing the half dime.</p><p><br /></p><p>So they apparently minted about 24 examples of this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/usa/186810centspattern.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Which is struck in 75% copper, 25% nickel just as the nickel was.&nbsp; They used the hubs from old Large cents, which then transpired into a few examples being struck in copper with the One Cent reverse from the large cents - I have yet to add one of those to my motley hoard but want a real 1868 Large Cent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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