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Interesting fact about American Clad coins
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From the book, "Ship of Gold, in the Deep Blue Sea", Gary Kinder
Chapter: Columbus, Ohio Page 137
Battelle Memorial Institute, a privately funded, not-for-profit facility engaged in contract research for government and private industry, had open its doors in 1929.
During World War II, five hundred Battelle scientists worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. In the 1940s and 1950s Battelle scientists helped a nighttime inventor named Chester Carlson refine a crude process that lay concealed inside a dirty wooden box and required fourteen manual operations. Then Battelle and Carlson licensed the process to a small company called Haloid, which in 1961 changed its name to Xerox.
In the mid1960s, scientists at Battelle created for the Treasury Department the "sandwich coin," bonding a cupro-nickel layers to copper cores, eliminating the need for silver.
So, that's how we got the clad coins!!
Note: Tom Thompson is the Battelle scientist that helped to invent all that deep sea diving equipment and then used it, with the help of many investors, to find the sunken ship, The Central America, and millions of dollars in gold. (1985)
Chapter: Columbus, Ohio Page 137
Battelle Memorial Institute, a privately funded, not-for-profit facility engaged in contract research for government and private industry, had open its doors in 1929.
During World War II, five hundred Battelle scientists worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. In the 1940s and 1950s Battelle scientists helped a nighttime inventor named Chester Carlson refine a crude process that lay concealed inside a dirty wooden box and required fourteen manual operations. Then Battelle and Carlson licensed the process to a small company called Haloid, which in 1961 changed its name to Xerox.
In the mid1960s, scientists at Battelle created for the Treasury Department the "sandwich coin," bonding a cupro-nickel layers to copper cores, eliminating the need for silver.
So, that's how we got the clad coins!!
Note: Tom Thompson is the Battelle scientist that helped to invent all that deep sea diving equipment and then used it, with the help of many investors, to find the sunken ship, The Central America, and millions of dollars in gold. (1985)
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Now we can blame Battelle for the terrible clad coins and lack of collector interest over the last forty years.
never actually made such a thing. This was largely to make them difficult to counterfeit
and usable in vending machines along with the silver coins already in circulation. The first
prototypes were all produced by Inco and the original strip for circulation coins were made
by Olin using an explosion bonding technique.
Certainly the clad composition turned off more than one generation of collectors. But whet-
her this (or the composition) is terrible or not is very much dependent on one's perspective.