Posted 06/16/2007 12:04 am
These are nickel and quarter sized stainless steel coins. I doubt that there's nearly enough metal in them to make them profitable to melt them but the manufacturers are having trouble getting metal to make consumer products for which the loss on melting is a nominal percentage. The LME defaulted on nickel contracts last year which may be resulting in a sort of enforced rationing.
This sort of thing is likely to spread despite being against the law in India and many other countries (including the US).
This sort of thing is likely to spread despite being against the law in India and many other countries (including the US).
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
