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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dannic113, post: 1471864, member: 35203&quot;]I&#039;m not sure it would be cheaper manufacturing it as an alloy and may not be practical. The first thing to consider is how easy it would be to impart coin designs on an alloy versus a core/layer sandwich. The alloy may be too much of an alloy and over all strike quality would suffer. Cost wise paying for 90% copper and 10% nickel would be the same no matter how you mixed them. Cents would still be around 3cents and nickels around 7 cents to manufacture. Remember the metal costs, the mint&#039;s overhead (cost of paying employees, machinery costs, upkeep, utilities, counterfeiting tech. etc) and shipping bags/rolls to banks all over are the real production costs not the making and stamping of the planchets. I&#039;m not a metallurgist but my guess is the nickel would lighten the copper from a &quot;red&quot; color to a pinkish color almost like a rose gold color as most rose gold is white gold (which is yellow gold and most commonly nickel) mixed with pure copper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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