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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3810377, member: 77814&quot;]Actually, it&#039;s not &quot;from an unintentional machine malfunction.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>They know it happens, and the let it happen as an &quot;accepted&quot; and thus &quot;intentional&quot;&nbsp; result of wanting to lower production costs for coins headed for circulation.&nbsp; The development of the Zincoln was to reduce the high price of copper usage.&nbsp; Testing showed long term problems which was &quot;acceptable&quot; in order to reduce production costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every other option to increase the quality raises costs to an unacceptable level.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at all the threads about why does the US produce a penny or nickel as they lose money on every one produced?&nbsp; Canada and the Bahamas have stopped manufacturing pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have to look at the Economics of it, as they do.</p><p>Not from a &quot;I collect circulated and damaged coinage&quot; perspective. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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