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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 6363123, member: 105098&quot;]a quarter costs like 9 cents to make.</p><p>a dime costs like 4 cents to make.</p><p>a nickel costs like 8 cents to make.</p><p>a cent costs like 2 cents to make.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now....</p><p>A quarter weighs 5.67g</p><p>A dime weighs 2.27g</p><p>A nickel weighs 5.00g</p><p>A cent weighs 2.5g</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you make a nickel out of&nbsp; copper plated Zinc like the cent, </p><p>it&#039;s going to cost 4 cents to make.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you made it out of clad, it&#039;s going to cost around 8 cents to make.</p><p><br /></p><p>in the case of clad, the savings isn&#039;t there. </p><p>in the case of the copper plated zinc. the savings isn&#039;t there either unless you went to the zincoln formula, and even then it&#039;s a 1 cent savings. </p><p><br /></p><p>and this isn&#039;t even factoring the weight or size differences that might push it up further in cost in order to match size for the weight of the composition. As it stands the nickel is 75%-25% copper/nickel to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>the savings really isn&#039;t&#039; there to do it so it&#039;s stayed the way it is. I guess it&#039;s possible to use a zinc core, then copper nickel plate that and it would be the same color, no idea on what weight it would be but could be a gram or so lighter and not sure if it functions right in machines either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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