Posted 01/15/2012 8:20 pm
It's not "clad", it's just been unofficially plated with something post-mint.
As to why, you'd have to ask whoever did it. Your tourist hypothesis is one idea. Or perhaps it was a swindler hoping to pass it as a decimo (dime). Perhaps it was somebody doing an electrochemistry experiment (I have a bronze Australian 2 cent coin my dad electroplated with zinc as party of a chemistry demonstration).
As to why, you'd have to ask whoever did it. Your tourist hypothesis is one idea. Or perhaps it was a swindler hoping to pass it as a decimo (dime). Perhaps it was somebody doing an electrochemistry experiment (I have a bronze Australian 2 cent coin my dad electroplated with zinc as party of a chemistry demonstration).
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
