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When congress actually cared about expenses.
Fascinating read, thanks for posting this.
https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/acrylic-colors-by-rocco.291/
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.
Yes….. I remember that smell., Roll searching back before Zincolns. Yuk
Very interesting numismatic history!
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
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).
Bingo.