U.S. Mint picks clad coinage to cut production costs - Coin World
Sep 29
In 1965, the United States Mint began issuing the first of its clad coinage. A clad coin, in the case of the U.S. issues, is one in which outer layers of one metal or alloy are bonded to an inner core of another metal or alloy.
From 1793 to the mid-1960s, virtually all U.S. coinage compositions were either a pure metal (the copper half cents and cents of 1793 to 1857) or homogenous alloys of two or more metals. Only the 1943 Lincoln zinc-coated steel cent broke the mold…
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