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JCH22

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Clackamas1

When congress actually cared about expenses.

Aspie_Rocco

Fascinating read, thanks for posting this.

BillJones

The factor that left out is the political one. Joseph Wharton, who ran nickel producing operation in near by Camden, New Jersey and who had clout in Congress, was pushing for the copper-nickel alloy.

As for changing color, they can look like this, which the original hue.

or like this.

And sometimes like this.

ambro51

Yes….. I remember that smell., Roll searching back before Zincolns. Yuk

Steven59

Very interesting numismatic history!

Old_Collector

And I thought that they used copper-nickel so I needed 3 cent coins for a short time interval for my type set, a FE, an 1859, and an 1863 (my chosen post 59 date).

Morgan White

@BillJones said:
The factor that left out is the political one. Joseph Wharton, who ran nickel producing operation in near by Camden, New Jersey and who had clout in Congress, was pushing for the copper-nickel alloy.

Bingo.