Coins Act To Be Reintroduced In Early May

Our multi-ply plated steel holds up pretty well. In spring, you can usually find a few dimes that have rusted at points of high relief (mostly the date), but I haven't seen any really wrecked ones. But I don't get how magnetic coins would "ruin the uniqueness" of those steel cents - they'd still be the only cents to be steel-gray on the outside...

Keeping the magnetism of our coins "standard" has been a lost cause since 1922, though. Since then, the nickel's gone through about six composition changes, the Mint made steel-clad and zinc-clad pennies in the same year for most of the last decade, and once-silver coins are now magnetic nickel or steel. Even more annoying, the nickel halves and voyageur dollars are smaller than their silver predecessors, making roll-searching a waste of time (if you could even find a voyageur dollar roll in the first place!). At least all this re-adjusting has made room for as many stupid "change" puns as you can think of.

Because those cents were made that way because of a metal shortage due to WWII and needing the metals for ammo. There is a very good story behind their existence as opposed to just because we wanted too. Making everything else look like them because we want to takes away from their uniqueness because all coins would look like them instead of being a stand alone.

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No one wants all steel coinage because itd all look the same and not hold up that well. The Steel cents are really hard to find that look great that havent been replated compared to their peers. You can find great looking Walkers for example from the same year pretty easy.

But also when your talking about larger steel coins it will look more like you just ripped off a hardware store than anything especially when you talk about halfs which the public doesn't readily accept in the first place. Theres no reason to touch the half in terms of composition anyway since the mint sells them at a collectors premium, quarters and dimes make money as well when theyre minted so the need isn't there either.

No offense to the Canadas but their coins dont feel much like coins with how light some of them are. I personally like money that feels like money and would be done collecting moderns series if they make them into those light weight coins. More and more people are using credit cards anyway and some massive over haul may just push more people to that and/or stop people from collecting moderns.

Theres no good reason why congress does half the things they do. Maybe theres a steel plant in his district, maybe he put all the coins in there knowing that people would oppose it and he could "compromise" removing some coins from it getting exactly what he wanted in the first place. Theres no serious movement about it anyway, its like two people who introduced it and this doesn't even crack the top 100k for weirdest bills that have been proposed.