Beginning of a series on the metals used to coin US cents.
The 1792 law authorizing coinage also imposed the death penalty for any mint employee knowingly debasing US gold or silver coinage and embezzling the metal for personal gain.
The nickel lobbyists got Congress and the Mint to use the metal in FE cents (88% copper, 12% nickel... these cents were actually called "nickels" or "nicks" in 1857).
Copper and nickel are miscible in every proportion... they don't form a eutectic or eutectoid as most other metal alloys do.
Form a I guess I'm like Bob. I must have slept during Chemistry class. The Copper-Nickel Cents are the same thickness of a Nickel. Great coins. Lets go back to the classic look on coins _________________ Richard S. Cooper
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The Copper-Nickel Cents are the same thickness of a Nickel. Great coins. Lets go back to the classic look on coins 
