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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 427992, member: 66&quot;]This is the line they give us today, and today it is pretty much true, but that wasn&#039;t the case in 1964/65.&nbsp; Back then the electrical and magnetic properties weren&#039;t that important because the coin detection mechanisms in the vending machines were strictly mechanical and didn&#039;t measure electrical or magnetic properties (Other than a magnet to make sure it wasn&#039;t a steel slug)&nbsp; They only checked weight, diameter, thickness, and for a hole in the center to make sure it wasn&#039;t a washer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides Coppernickel clad and 90% silver do not have the same weight , density, electrical or mechanical properties, and they were not very compatible in the vending machines mainly because of the difference in weight.&nbsp; A machine adjusted for silver tended to reject the clad coins, and one set for the clad would reject the silver ones.&nbsp; And if the tolerances were set so broad so as to accept both, they tended to accept anything.&nbsp; (Todays vending machines will also usually reject silver coins because they don&#039;t have the electromagnetic signature of the clad coins that todays machines check for.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was probably the major reason for the choice, the material was and still is, very difficult to produce and therefore counterfeits would also be very difficult to make.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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